March 14, 2025
The first quarter of 2025 brought one of WPML’s most important updates in recent years: WPML 4.7. With it came a major step forward in making translation faster, easier, and more accurate.
The WPML 4.7 release is the result of months of research, client interviews, and UX testing. Multilingual WordPress sites have grown more complex over the years. There’s more content, more integrations, and more pressure to translate everything quickly—and well.
We set out with the goal of giving users:
We put those goals into action by:
WPML 4.7 introduced a lot of changes to the user interface and translation flow. We didn’t want to catch any of our clients off guard.
That’s why we worked with plugin and theme partners to update compatibility documentation and guides ahead of the release. We also followed up with community educators and blogs to help them reflect how WPML works today.
It’s been great to see that effort pay off:
While WPML continues to evolve, we’ve also been working on something new: Private Translation Cloud (PTC).
Like WPML, PTC is built to make translation faster and more reliable—this time for software developers. It’s designed to:
After months of internal testing and pilot programs, PTC is almost ready for public release. We’re excited to share more soon.
Thanks for following along with what we’re building. We believe great tools come from listening to real problems and solving them with care, speed, and clarity. That’s what drives our team every day.
Keep an eye out for our next round of updates!
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