Evertongue

Evertongue helps WordPress sites carry one message across many languages without the overhead of a heavyweight multilingual system.

It was built for teams who need more than a handful of translations. Many popular translation plugins work well for a few languages, then become hard to manage as the language list grows. Evertongue keeps the workflow intentionally simple: real WordPress pages and posts, predictable language URLs, focused string translation, and switchers that remain usable when your audience spans dozens of languages.

Inspired by Revelation 5:9, “every tribe and tongue and people and nation,” Evertongue is for mission-driven teams working to make their message accessible to a global audience.

What Evertongue does

• Translate pages and posts as whole posts using the standard Gutenberg/classic editor
• Translate theme/site strings captured at runtime via the gettext filter
• Default language at the site root, others under /{code}/
• Identical slugs across every language for a given page or post
• Auto-swapping menu items with fallback to the default language
• evertongue_switcher() template tag with list or searchable combobox
• hreflang alternate links and og:locale metadata on translated pages and posts
• WPML and Polylang importers for migrating languages, content, and strings
• PO file export/import for round-tripping strings

What Evertongue does not try to be

Evertongue is not an all-in-one localization suite. It does not try to handle every edge case, automatic translation workflow, or site-specific integration inside the core plugin. The goal is a clean foundation for multilingual content that stays understandable, maintainable, and fast as your language count grows.

Usage

Add languages under Evertongue → Languages. Configure your default. Translate pages and posts from the editor sidebar (Gutenberg) or side meta box (Classic).

Render the language switcher in your theme:

<?php if ( function_exists( 'evertongue_switcher' ) ) evertongue_switcher(); ?>

Use style => 'combobox' for a searchable dropdown.

For users who prefer not to edit theme code, enable the floating button or footer list under Evertongue → Settings → Automatic switchers.