Ako Multilang

Ako Multilang turns the pages you already have into a bilingual site. Link each page to its translation, and Ako handles the rest: hreflang for search engines, the right layout for right-to-left languages, and a switcher your visitors can actually find.

No machine translation. No URL changes. Just your site, in two languages.

Why Ako

• Keeps your URLs. Nothing moves, so your rankings and links stay intact.
• Right-to-left built in. Farsi, Arabic, and Hebrew pages load your theme’s right-to-left styles, and the editor flips while you write.
• Set up in minutes. Pick your languages, approve suggested page pairs, and drop the switcher into your menu.
• Everything included. No add-ons, no subscription.

Features

• Link anything. Posts, pages, and custom post types, right from the editor or the Translations screen. Duplicate a page as a draft in the other language to start a translation.
• SEO handled. hreflang with x-default, lang, dir, and og:locale. Works with Yoast SEO, Rank Math, and All in One SEO, and a health check flags missing or one-way links.
• Five switcher styles. Link, inline, segmented, dropdown, or floating, with a live preview. Add it as a block, a menu item, a floating button, or the [akoml_switcher] shortcode.
• Accessible. Works with a keyboard and screen readers. If a page has no translation yet, the switcher links to that language’s homepage.
• Easy to switch. Imports your links from WPML and Polylang without touching their data.

Tested with

Astra, Hello Elementor, GeneratePress, Kadence, OceanWP, Neve, Blocksy, Twenty Twenty-One, Twenty Twenty-Four, Twenty Twenty-Five, and Elementor.

Privacy

No external requests, no tracking, and no data collection.

Credits

Admin fonts: Inter (Copyright 2016 The Inter Project Authors) and Vazirmatn (Copyright 2015 The Vazirmatn Project Authors), both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The license is in assets/fonts/OFL.txt.

Icons: Lucide (https://lucide.dev), under the ISC License, with portions from Feather under the MIT License. The license is in assets/icons/LICENSE-lucide.txt.