Does Elementor Work With Multilingual Plugins Like WPML?
How the Integration Works
WPML's Advanced Translation Editor recognizes Elementor's content structure, extracting the actual text strings from within widgets for translation while leaving the surrounding design and layout untouched. Once translated, each language version renders through the same Elementor-built template, just with the language-appropriate text substituted in.
Things Worth Knowing
- Theme Builder templates need separate consideration, since headers, footers, and other site-wide templates may need their own translation handling depending on the specific multilingual setup.
- Dynamic content and custom fields used within Elementor designs need to be set up for translation at the custom-field level too, not just the visible widget text.
- Layout differences between languages (some languages produce noticeably longer or shorter text) may need minor per-language design adjustments even though the base structure stays shared.
- Other multilingual plugins vary in how well they integrate with Elementor specifically — checking current compatibility documentation for the specific plugin in question is worthwhile before committing to one.
Setting Up Multilingual Elementor Content
- Install and configure WPML (or another Elementor-compatible multilingual plugin) alongside Elementor.
- Translate page content through the plugin's translation editor, which recognizes Elementor's structure.
- Review each language version for layout issues caused by differing text length.
Need a multilingual Elementor site set up or fixed properly? See Elementor customization.