Key learnings from launching TranslatePress, a WordPress multilingual plugin that anyone can use The WordPress plugin ecosystem is quickly becoming a very crowded space. It’s getting harder and harder to get noticed and build something people will use, even more so pay for.
Over the course of 12 months, TranslatePress grew to over 20K active installs on wp.org and closed last month with over 4500$ in revenue from its premium versions.
This article is meant to cover the lessons learned while launching a new WordPress multilingual plugin, as well as challenges faced along the way.
Why build a new WordPress multilingual plugin?
To give you a little context, before we switched completely to plugin development, we were a custom development agency, so we had to deal with translation plugins from day one. Our projects varied from simple presentation sites with a few pages to complex multilingual setups that needed ongoing development and maintenance.
We didn’t like the translation workflow of almost all of the existing multilingual solutions on the market (non-visual, out of content, found in multiple places).
While as developers we could make it work, there was always a lot of
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