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Loco Translate

Loco Translate

Multilingual & Translation Multilingual Content & Language Switchers

Loco Translate is a WordPress plugin for Multilingual Content & Language Switchers. It ranks #1 of 96 in that group by active installs and was last updated 1 month ago.

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Slug loco-translate

1M Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
4.8 Rating out of 5 From 453 ratings
103 Releases Since 23 July 2013
Sep 2026 Last release 1 month ago

Maintenance check

Is Loco Translate still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

  • Updated recently. The last release was 1 month ago.
  • Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
  • Support is patchy. Only 3 of 11 forum threads in the last two months were resolved.
  • Well rated. 4.8 out of 5 from 453 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 99.9% of the directory

Ahead of 47,667 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

99.9% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
47,667 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
66 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
2.8.9
Requires WordPress
6.6
Tested up to
7.1.4
Requires PHP
7.4
Added to the directory
23 July 2013
Last updated
30 September 2026
Contributors
1
Author
Tim W
Support threads resolved
3 of 11

Its own tags

  • i18n
  • l10n
  • language
  • multilingual
  • translation

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