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Polylang

Polylang is a WordPress plugin for building multilingual websites, developed by the French company WP SYNTEX. It lets editors translate posts, pages, menus and taxonomies and add a language switcher, with an optional paid Polylang Pro edition and a WooCommerce add-on. The core plugin is free under the GPL. Sites running Polylang serve several languages, a good audience for translation agencies, localisation services and WordPress developers.

Polylang is active on 297,764 WordPress websites, which is 0.5% of all WordPress plugins detections we record. Websites running Polylang are most often served from Germany (63,071), France (32,837) and United States (19,691), and .com, .de and .pl are the most common domain endings.

Websites using Polylang

Preview filters with coarse ranges. Exact ranks and registration dates are available in the dashboard when you download a list.

297,764 websites. Sign in to download the full list (free sample below, full lists from $69/mo)

23 days ago 31,423 websites used Polylang; today it is 297,764 (+847.6%).

Top countries for Polylang

Germany
63.1K
France
32.8K
United States
19.7K
Italy
17.6K
Poland
14.7K
Netherlands
10.6K
Spain
10K
Switzerland
9.3K

Top TLDs

.com
121.9K
.de
17K
.pl
11.4K
.org
11.2K
.it
10.3K
.fr
10.1K
.net
8.6K
.ch
7.6K

Sample of 15 websites using Polylang

best-ranked first; the full list has 297,764
DomainCountryMajestic rankNetAPI rankContactsFirst seen
x5.ru RU 67,782 4,278 phone 2026-10-13
ufrj.br BR 3,975 8,456 phone 2026-10-13
kffhealthnews.org US 5,003 8,871 2026-10-13
icm.edu.pl PL 6,761 12,328 2026-10-12
puritanas.com - - 14,748 2026-10-09
birdlife.org - 7,277 15,969 2026-10-12
pan.pl PL 8,412 17,309 2026-10-11
univ-poitiers.fr FR 15,441 18,221 2026-10-10
khn.org US 9,465 19,212 2026-10-11
cmtelematics.com US 199,898 21,383 2026-10-12
sescsp.org.br US 25,922 22,392 2026-10-10
responsiblegambling.org US 11,848 22,517 phone 2026-10-15
paragon-software.com DE 13,457 22,840 phone 2026-10-09
coi.cz BE 13,212 24,580 phone 2026-10-15
abo.fi FI 16,770 24,944 phone 2026-10-21

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Questions about Polylang websites

How many websites use the Polylang plugin?

As of November 2, 2026, 297,764 WordPress websites have Polylang active on their homepage. The number is recalculated every night from our own crawl of the web.

Who buys lists of websites with Polylang?

Vendors of competing or complementary WordPress plugins, themes and hosting, agencies that maintain WordPress sites, and SaaS products that integrate with Polylang. A site that installed the plugin has a concrete need and an admin who makes software decisions.

Where are Polylang websites hosted?

Germany leads with 63,071 websites, followed by France (32,837) and United States (19,691). The country is where the website is served from; sites on a hosted platform show the platform's country.

How do I find websites that just installed Polylang?

The New tab on this page lists websites where our crawler saw Polylang for the first time in the last days, newest first; the Dropped tab lists the sites that removed it. Both lists download with a subscription and are refreshed every morning.

How do I get a list of websites using Polylang?

A free BetaScan account downloads a {sample_rows}-row sample. A subscription from $69 a month gives the full list of 297,764 domains, or a dataset with emails, phones, country, hosting and ranks, filtered by country, TLD, rank and registration date. See pricing.

How does BetaScan detect Polylang?

Our crawler fetches the homepage of every domain we track and matches the page and its response headers against the signatures of 7,636 technologies. A website counts as using Polylang when its latest crawl shows the signature; when the signature disappears, the site moves to the dropped list.