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Wimpel

Name: Wimpel
Author: hafenstudios

Multilingual without rewrite rules: translations are ordinary posts linked by post meta, with hreflang, a switcher and optional AI translation.

Wimpel ranks #67,728 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, is #491 of 833 in the Language Tools category, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Oct 12, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v1.3.1 Current Version v1.3.1

Updated 2 weeks ago Last Update on 12 Oct, 2026

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.3.1
Last Updated: Oct 12, 2026
Requires WP: 6.5+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 8.1 or higher
Author: hafenstudios

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Wimpel

Not unless you set that up. Without an access and without your opt-in, everything runs on your own server and Wimpel makes no request to any other server. With the AI translation switched on, the text of the posts you translate goes to the service you chose; see "External services" above.

Not automatically. Wimpel deliberately registers no rewrite rules and does not change your permalink structure. Each translation has the permalink you give it, for example /en/about-us/ as a normal page hierarchy. Search engines do not require a particular URL structure for multilingual sites; what matters are the hreflang links, and Wimpel sets those.

They stay. Translations are ordinary posts and pages and belong to you, not to the plugin. Nothing is deleted on uninstall unless you explicitly switch that on in the settings. Even then Wimpel removes only its own linking data and its settings.

Usually not: common SEO plugins do not output hreflang of their own without a multilingual plugin. After setting up, check the source of a translated page once for "rel=alternate". If a line appears twice, switch the hreflang output off in the Wimpel settings.

Only if you switch it on. New translations are always created as drafts and never published by Wimpel. Published translations are changed only by the wake, which you enable yourself, and even then only in the sections whose source changed; anything a person wrote or changed in the translation stays and is flagged for review instead.

They are the three states of a translation. In the wake: the translation follows its source automatically. Pilot on board: Wimpel prepares the update as a comparison draft and leaves the live translation alone until you take it over; the privacy policy page uses this by default. At anchor: the translation is never updated, Wimpel only tells you that the source changed.

Yes. Give the block in the translation the additional CSS class wimpel-anker. Wimpel then leaves that block and everything inside it alone, even if the source changed.

No. Wimpel handles posts, pages and the content types you select. Menus, tags, categories and theme texts stay untouched.

Yes. The switcher is a plain list of links and needs no JavaScript.