Fast Multilingual Sites
Make multilingual WordPress fast – even across multiple domains
Keep WPML, Polylang, or TranslatePress for multilingual editing. Static Studio publishes each language as fast static pages and maps every language to its own environment, domain, or subdomain.
Great for WPML, Polylang, and TranslatePress sites that use language folders, as well as public domains in Studio.
Multilingual WordPress can get heavy fast
Keep editing in WordPress
A single-language WordPress site can already become slow when plugins, page builders, images, scripts, and caching rules stack up.
A multilingual site adds another layer.
Translated pages, language switchers, translated slugs, hreflang tags, redirects, duplicate templates, localized menus, SEO metadata, and plugin compatibility all need to work together.
When the site is dynamic, every language version can add more database queries, cache variations, and moving parts.
For public multilingual websites, that complexity often shows up as slow pages and fragile caching.
Static delivery for translated pages
Studio keeps WordPress as the place where your team manages content and translations.
Then it publishes the visitor-facing pages as static files.
That means each public language version can be served quickly from static output, instead of relying on WordPress, PHP, the database, and caching rules for every request.
This ensures consistent WPML performance even with hundreds of languages set up on your WordPress site.
It also works with Polylang and TranslatePress.
What stays familiar
Edit in WordPress, translate with WPML – nothing changes besides the output.
WordPress stays your CMS
Your team can keep managing pages and translated content in WordPress.
WPML stays part of the workflow
The multilingual structure can remain in the editing environment where it belongs.
Your public URLs can stay recognizable
Translated pages, language folders, and URL structures should be checked during migration to preserve SEO.
SEO work remains important
Static delivery helps performance, but hreflang, canonicals, sitemaps, redirects, and metadata still need to be reviewed.
What gets faster and simpler
Better performance, fewer moving parts, and almost no attack surface for hackers to exploit.
Language pages are served statically
Visitors load prebuilt public pages instead of waiting for dynamic WordPress.
Support for multiple domains
Serve your site under different language-specific domains without the performance impact of dynamic lookups.
Fewer public moving parts
The public site does not need WordPress, PHP, or a database to generate every translated page.
Better experience across regions
Static files served from a CDN can make international public pages feel faster for more visitors.
Great for multilingual sites
Static WordPress is usually a strong fit for multilingual content websites, such as marketing sites, landing pages, SaaS product websites, or multilingual blogs.
Great Fit
- Multilingual marketing sites
- International landing pages
- SaaS product websites
- Documentation sites
- Company websites
- Multilingual blogs
- Public resource libraries
- Agency-built WPML or Polylang client sites
- Multi-Domain setups
No Fit
- WooCommerce and multilingual carts
- Currency switching
- Membership or login areas
- Dynamic search
- Geo-personalization
- Booking flows
- Real-time inventory or pricing
One WordPress site.
Multiple static language domains.
Your languages are exported as subdirectories, and Studio maps each language to the right public environment.
How does it work?
Each subdirectory will be fetched individually, and the files will be moved to the designated root directory per domain:
- mysite.com/en/ -> mysite.com
- mysite.com/de/ -> mysite.de
Studio will handle the details for you:
- rewriting the URLs per language domain
- handling meta tags per domain
- Rewriting the URLs for your language switcher
Why does that help?
Static Studio will automatically distribute each language as a fully separate static site, ensuring maximum performance.
Each site can be distributed via our CDN closest to your visitors:
- German visitors will be served from Frankfurt
- Dutch visitors will be served from Amsterdam
- US visitors will be served from New York and California
1. Configure languages as folders in WordPress
Set up WPML, Polylang, or TranslatePress so each language is available as a subdirectory.
- mysite.com/en/
- mysite.com/de/
2. Create environments in Static Studio
Create one environment per language or market that requires its own public domain.
- German environment → mysite.de
- English environment → mysite.com
3. Connect languages to environments
Inside WordPress, map each language to the Studio environment that owns its public domain.
4. Publish the full site or one language
When you publish in German, Static Studio sends the static output to the German environment and serves it from the German domain.
Move your multilingual WordPress site without rebuilding it
Check compatibility in seconds. If your site is ready, migrate it to Static Studio while keeping your existing translations, URLs and WordPress editing workflow.
No credit card required. Migration help available.
Frequently asked
Simply Static is not about abandoning WordPress. It is about using WordPress where it is strongest and removing it where it creates risk, cost, and complexity.
Can WPML or Polylang sites go static?
Many multilingual public-content sites are strong candidates, but compatibility depends on the setup. Run the checker first.
Will hreflang and SEO metadata still matter?
Yes. Static delivery does not replace multilingual SEO work. Hreflang, canonicals, metadata, redirects, and sitemaps should be reviewed.
What about language switchers?
Language switchers should be tested during migration to make sure they work as expected in the static version – we natively support the ones from WPML and Polylang.
Can each language use its own domain?
Yes.
Create a Studio environment for each language and map the matching custom domain to that environment.
Is this good for multilingual WooCommerce?
Usually not as a fully static site. Multilingual stores often need dynamic carts, pricing, inventory, accounts, and checkout behavior.