Through the Internet the physical barriers of sharing information have fallen. You can now send an e-mail with one click and in the next second it arrives on the other side of the world. However if the recipient of the e-mail on the other side of the world happens to speak a language that you do not speak, all the speed gained was in vain. Thus it seems that the next battle for free information will not be a political or a technical struggle but will present itself as a sociocultural problem.

It is an economical advantage if information only exists in one language, because then the members who speak the language can get into action faster. If we really want to do more democratic information sharing, we have to address the problem of representing multilanguage version of website in the Internet. The tools listed here will help you accomplish the task.

The 9 Best Translation And Multi-language Plugins

xLanguage

Eager to present your blog in different languages? Just download this plugin and see its magic. The plugin also allows the visitors to choose their preferred language easily and that’s what makes it popular with a wider range of audience!

The plugin does not interfere with the WordPress database. It provides you with the freedom to customize the options and even hide the posts that are written in foreign languages. The amazing plugin provides different themes for different languages and enables crawling of text from all languages under a single URL.

A full featured plugin to totally customize your WordPress blog for global needs.

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ZdMultiLang

The plugin that is a favorite amongst all, allows you to blog in loads of languages, so forget about the language barrier, once and for all. It translates categories, posts, pages and tags and at the same time switches blog languages with its intelligent features.

One of the most know plugins for more than one language translation.

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Global Translator

No language barricades!

Had problems in translating your blogs in the past? Forget about this exasperation now. Global Translator allows you to translate your bog into 41 different languages! How about that? But it solely depends on your search engine as to how many translation languages it allows you to choose. But still, it is quiet embraced and popular these days.

The plug makes use of  permalinks and is arrayed with smart caching system. That not only boosts the traffic for your blog but also gives you the independence to choose between different layouts without even facing the problem of their database being altered. So users can ensure 100% satisfaction level. The plugin is assembled with four different translation engines: Babel Fish, Google Translation Engine, Promt, FreeTranslations.

If you don’t have Global Translator, you are missing out on valuable traffic.

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Codestyling Localization

The plugin (for blogs and websites) allows the users to manage and edit ‘gettext’ translation files directly out of their WordPress Admin Center. The USP of this plugin is its automatic detection of gettext ready components for its users.

Managing language file is a kid’s play with this plugin.

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Kish Translate

This prominent plugin is a perfect translation plugin that is quiet popular with its users. It not only translates your blog post to 20 International languages but also takes care of the links, images and other entities in the most apt manner. At the same time, the plugin gives you the freedom to adjust the height, color, etc of the widget in your own way. One can easily set the life of a page, after which it will automatically get refreshed.

The most wanted plugin opening the doors for a fast language translation process.

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ICanLocalize Translator

It is a multi-lingual plugin that allows running multi-lingual WordPress websites and at the same time gives its users the independence to keep a fine check on the contents of different languages. That is the sole reason for its popularity level.

The plugin is dressed with some of the blazing features like automatic translations and updates. It also makes use of different domains or directories within the same domain. The best thing with this plugin is that the ‘updates in translations’ automatically follows after an ‘update in the content’ structure. So it is a complete solution altogether!

The flexibility to check the contents of different languages anytime is what gives it a rank in the most wanted list.

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Google Translator

This ablaze plugin is added in the sidebar and allows the readers to change the existing language into the language of their choice. The USP of this plugin is that it supports base language as well as multi language with brilliance. It is due to all these reasons that the plugin is quiet celebrated and accepted in the WordPress community.

Especially convenient for translating long i18n.property files for different languages.

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Indoeuropean Translator Widget

This multi-purpose plugin offers a widget that further provides various translation links in your sidebars.

It makes use of the native language name and also offers apt XML lang definitions. The plugin saves a lot of time as you can easily customize it according to your preference level. With this plugin around, users don’t need to worry about losing their page rank as it also offers apt XML lang definitions. Last, but definitely not the least, it displays valid XHTML code.

Celebrated and popular as well.

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ICanLocalize Comment Translator

This plugin, along with its partner plugin ICanLocalize Translator Plugin, acts as a perfect combination for your blog. Both make quiet a popular pair. It not only stores the contents in the translated language blog but also converts the received comments into desired language. The duo of these two plugins works brilliantly for websites. Readers, sometimes tend to leave comments in their own language, but with this plugin, you can easily translate them in your language. And when you will reply back in your language, the readers will be able to understand your comments into their own language. You need to install “ICanLocalize Comment Translator” in the translated-language blog, and ICanLocalize Translator in the original language blog. Then the duo will work together in a distinguished manner.

The fully automated translation mechanism is the key feature of the plugin.

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