Multilanga – AI Translation & Multilingual Language Switcher

Changelog

0.60.0

• Improved: on Pro and Agency, “Translate entire site” translates your pages, products and the 50 newest posts right away. Older posts are translated the first time someone opens them in another language, so words are not spent on posts nobody reads in that language.
• Improved: search engines are asked not to index a translated page until it is at least 90% translated, and the Multilanga sitemap lists only translated pages. Visitors and search engines never get the original text under a translated address.
• Fix: with many languages, the language switcher list now scrolls instead of running off the screen.

0.59.0

• Improved: translation no longer depends on WP-Cron. It now also runs right after a page is sent to a visitor and from the visitor’s browser, so it works on servers where a firewall or Cloudflare blocks the site from calling itself.
• Improved: a page whose translation is still in progress is not saved by page-cache plugins (WP-Optimize, WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed and others). When translation finishes, the page cache is cleared, so visitors see the translated page right away.
• Fix: no leftover <!--?xml ...?--> comment at the top of translated pages on servers with a newer libxml.

0.58.0

• New: “Manage billing” button in Settings for Pro and Agency. Update your card, download invoices or cancel your subscription on a secure Stripe page.
• New: on Pro you can switch to Agency from Settings. You pay only the difference for the rest of the current year.
• Fixed: after paying, Settings now shows the “Payment received” message and updates the plan right away.

0.57.1

• Improved: the last setup step now shows what is still being translated in the background (for example “Pages: 14 · Products: 2”). If your free words will likely run out before the whole site is done, it says so and links to where you can choose what to translate.
• Improved: on the dashboard, a shop that has Products unticked under “Translate entire site” now sees a reminder that new and changed products will stay untranslated.

0.57.0

• New: Language Switcher block. Add it anywhere in the block editor or in your block theme’s header. For each block you can choose a drop-down list or all languages in a row, and show or hide flags and language names. Colors stay the same as in Settings.
• New: Multilanga warns you when another translation plugin is turned on (TranslatePress, WPML, Polylang, Weglot, GTranslate and others). Two translation plugins get in each other’s way, so keep only one.

0.56.2

• New: 42 more languages, 85 in total, including Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Malay, Filipino, Catalan, Albanian, Georgian, Armenian and Kazakh.
• New: when your WordPress site language is not supported yet, setup and Settings say so instead of silently assuming English.
• Fix: Persian and Urdu sites are no longer detected as Arabic.
• Fix: translated pages always carry the right lang attribute, even when WordPress has no language pack for that language.
• WooCommerce: declared compatible with High-Performance Order Storage and the block Cart and Checkout. Tested with WooCommerce 11.2.

0.56.1

• Fix: the language check now warns when your pages are written in a language you also translate into (for example an Italian site set to “English → Italian”), with a one-click swap. 0.55.2 wrongly stayed silent in this case.

0.56.0

• New: custom URL prefix per language (Settings → Languages → Language in URLs). For example Kinyarwanda can live at /kin/ instead of /rw/, useful when the site itself is already in a /rw/ folder. hreflang keeps the language code, and old links redirect to the new address.

0.55.2

• Fix: the “Check the original language” warning no longer trusts the WordPress Site Language. It now looks only at the text of your pages, and never suggests a language you translate into.
• New: a dismissible tip when your pages are written in one language but WordPress tells search engines another (Site Language in Settings → General).
• Fix: changing the Site Language now refreshes the language check right away instead of after a day.
• Fix: “My setting is right” now also hides the language warning under Settings → Languages.

0.55.1

• Fix: sites installed in a subdirectory (for example example.com/shop) got language links before the directory (/de/shop/) and a server 404. Language URLs now go after the directory (/shop/de/), and pages, scans and the editor use paths relative to the site address. Existing data is migrated on update.

0.55.0

• New: redesigned admin in the multilanga.com style: app bar with navigation and your plan, dashboard with key numbers, cleaner page list, editor and settings.
• New: messages appear as toasts; risky actions ask for confirmation in place; tooltips explain the columns and options.
• New: searchable dropdowns with flags for languages, toggles instead of checkboxes, a sticky Save bar that shows unsaved changes.
• Improved: the dashboard warns before the free words run out (from 90% used).
• Improved: the setup wizard no longer pauses for up to a minute after you pick languages; WordPress language packs now download in the background.
• Improved: the wizard’s last screen tells what really happened (translated, still translating, out of free words, or AI off) instead of always claiming success.
• Improved: clearer message when your site cannot reach the translation service, plus a “Continue without AI” option.
• Improved: dashboard setup steps follow the wizard order, one “get a key” action instead of three, and “Scan site” instead of “Translate entire site” while AI translation is off.
• Fixed: text that waited for more AI words (“needs upgrade”) is queued again when a license is connected or re-verified, and after the one-time free allowance reset.
• Improved: after an update the plugin reports its new version within a minute, also on silent auto-updates.
• Improved: your language and switcher settings reach Multilanga support right at signup and within a minute of a change (were up to a day late).
• Fixed: the word counter in the top bar showed 0 on every screen except the dashboard.
• Fixed: the page list estimated words for all languages instead of the one you are looking at.
• Fixed: the wizard could report success before the homepage was translated.
• New: pick several languages right in the setup wizard. Languages are translated in the order you choose: the first one is finished before the next starts, so free words go to your most important language first. The order is kept in Settings and shown on the dashboard.

0.54.3

• Added: Kinyarwanda, Swahili, Amharic, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Zulu as target languages, with flags.

0.54.2

• Improved: the original content language is now taken from your WordPress site language first. The AI detection only decides when the site language is left at the English default, and it reads your pages and menus before product descriptions, which are often pasted in another language.
• Improved: when translation pauses because the text came back unchanged, the notice offers a one-click “Use X as the original language” fix.

0.54.1

• Improved: translation requests are batched better. New text captured while visitors or search engines browse the site is collected for a few seconds before it is sent, so a large site no longer spends its hourly request allowance on tiny batches.
• Improved: when the hourly request limit is reached, the plugin waits until it frees up instead of retrying every minute, and the Multilanga screens say until when.
• Fixed: two background workers could run at the same time right after a settings change and send mixed language pairs.
• Fixed: a PHP error inside the language switcher used to hide it silently. It is now reported on the Multilanga screens.

0.54.0

• New: the setup wizard now detects the language your content is written in for every alphabet, not only non-Latin scripts, and pre-selects it as the original language.
• New: if the configured original language does not match the detected content language, Multilanga shows a one-click fix that swaps the languages. A language can no longer be both the original and a target.
• New: translation pauses automatically when the AI returns the text unchanged, which means the content is already in the target language. No words are charged, and a notice explains how to fix the languages or resume.

0.53.1

• New: the switcher now works inside the Navigation block of block themes. Add a Custom Link with the URL #multilanga to your navigation and it renders as the language switcher, exactly like in classic menus.
• Improved: the switcher dropdown now closes when you click anywhere else or press Escape, and the arrow turns smoothly.
• Fix: theme stylesheets could break the switcher layout (list padding, bullets, details styling) when it was placed with the shortcode or in a menu. The switcher’s layout is now protected against theme rules; colours and radius still follow your settings.

0.53.0

• New: the language switcher has its own settings card. Background, border and shadow can each be switched off for a bare button that blends into your design; the open dropdown keeps its panel so it stays readable.
• New: offsets for the floating button. Set the distance from the edge horizontally and vertically, so it never overlaps a cookie bar or chat widget.
• New: Custom CSS box for the switcher, applied after the built-in styles, with the useful selectors listed right there.
• Improved: the [multilanga_switcher] shortcode now has its own “Place it yourself” row with a one-click Copy button and clear instructions for pages, block themes and classic menus.

0.52.1

• Fix: a stray piece of script or stylesheet code captured as page text could get stuck as a “failed” translation that came back after every retry. Such segments are now skipped during capture and cleaned up on update.
• New: a “Discard” button next to “Retry” on the dashboard removes failed elements from the queue.

0.52.0

• New: pick exactly which pages to translate. The page list now has checkboxes and a “Translate selected” bar showing the running word cost against your plan. Expensive low-priority pages start unticked, so your quota goes to what matters first.

0.51.0

• New: cost preview before translating. “Translate entire site” now shows the estimated AI words needed versus what your plan has left, and warns when it would exceed your quota, so a single large page can’t quietly use it all.
• New: each page in the list shows an estimated word cost, and low-priority pages (Terms, Privacy, Cart, My account…) are tagged so you can translate the important pages first.

0.50.1

• Fixed: the dashboard could show “1 translation failed” while the page list showed everything complete, with no way to act on it. The alert now has a Retry button that re-queues every failed item (including ones no longer tied to a visible page).

0.50.0

• New: dynamic content now learns new phrases automatically. When a script shows text that has never been translated, the plugin queues it for background AI translation (within your word plan) and applies it moments later and on every later visit, with per-visitor rate limits so it can’t be abused.

Older versions: see changelog.txt in the plugin folder.