Language tabs inside Gutenberg
CoreTranslate without ever leaving the block editor. Each tab holds the title, content, excerpt, slug and meta for one language.
WordPress multilingual, re-engineered
One post.Every language.zero duplication
PressLingual keeps translations in separate, lean database tables keyed by id + lang — so your site stays fast no matter how many languages you publish in.
- GPL v2 core
- WP 6.2+
- PHP 8.1+
- 2,100+ tests
page — edited with PressLingual
EnglishLietuviųDeutschEspañol日本語
Post title
Summer sale starts now — up to 40% off
Permalink
example.com/en/summer-sale
Works with your stack
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Why PressLingual exists
The old multilingual plugins duplicate your database
The old way
Every language duplicates everything
- One post becomes four posts — plus duplicated meta, terms and media links
- Queries scan tables bloated with language copies
- The slower your database grows, the slower every page gets
The PressLingual way
One post. Many languages. Separate tables.
- Content is stored once; translations live in lean (id, lang) tables
- WordPress queries stay untouched — no JOIN-heavy duplication
- Add your 20th language without touching your 1st
How it works
Multilingual in three moves
Install & activate
Install from wordpress.org like any plugin. No migration, no content import — the tables are created on activation and your existing posts stay exactly where they are.
Pick your languages
Choose a main language and add the ones you need. PressLingual prepares URL prefixes, hreflang entries and the language switcher — no rewrite rules to hand-edit.
Translate in the editor
Language tabs sit directly inside Gutenberg. Type the translation — including a translated slug — hit publish, and it's live with correct SEO metadata.
Under the hood
Built like infrastructure, not an add-on
URLs that speak the language
Pro/lt/, /de/ prefixes, translated slugs — and with Pro, even system words: /category/ becomes /kategorija/.
example.com/category/news
example.com/lt/kategorija/naujienos
No duplicated posts. Ever.
WPML and Polylang clone your content per language. PressLingual stores translations separately, keyed by (id, lang).
wp_posts
id 1 · hello-world
id 2 · summer-sale
…nothing else
psl_translations
(2, lt) · vasaros-isp.
(2, de) · sommerschlussv.
hreflang sitemaps, built in
Every language version lands in the sitemap with correct hreflang entries. Plays nicely with Yoast, Rank Math and AIOSEO.
Graceful content fallback
A missing translation never becomes a blank page — visitors see the main language instead, and search engines see the right canonical.
/de/…missing
/en originalserved
Translated search
Pro searches in the visitor's language — a German query finds the German translation, not just the English original.
„vandeniui atsparus“
Vandeniui atsparūs batai
↳ LT translation of “waterproof boots”
An API for builders
REST endpoint /wp/v2/languages plus a PHP API — psl_get_post(), psl_languages() — so themes and plugins speak PressLingual natively.
GET /wp/v2/languages
→ ["en", "lt", "de"]
psl_get_post(42, 'lt')
0
duplicated rows in your posts table
2,100+
automated tests guarding every release
6.2+
WordPress version required — that's all
∞
languages in Pro
Free vs Pro
Start free. Upgrade when the languages pile up.
| Capability | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Translated posts, pages & terms | ||
| Gutenberg language tabs | ||
| URL language prefixes (/lt/, /de/) | ||
| Translated slugs | ||
| hreflang sitemap entries | ||
| WooCommerce full translation |
What early adopters say
Teams who stopped duplicating
Pre-launch feedback, condensed and shared with permission.
“We migrated a 14-language WooCommerce store off Polylang. The posts table shrank from 41 000 rows to 3 100 — and the pages got measurably faster.”
Agency owner · Germany “The language tabs inside Gutenberg are the whole reason our editors actually translate now. No separate screens, no hunting for duplicated posts.”
Content lead · Lithuania “Translated slugs and hreflang sitemaps out of the box saved us the SEO checklist we used to run after every launch.”
SEO consultant · Netherlands
Translate once. Never duplicate.
Install the Free version from wordpress.org, or go straight to Pro for unlimited languages and WooCommerce.
PressLingual is a WordPress multilingual plugin built by UAB Webey in Lithuania. Unlike a traditional WordPress translation plugin, it never duplicates your posts, pages or terms — translations live in dedicated tables keyed by ID and language, keeping WordPress i18n fast at any scale. Translated slugs, hreflang sitemaps, Gutenberg language tabs, a REST and PHP API, and deep WooCommerce, Elementor, ACF and SEO-plugin integrations are included.