Is Fast Translate free?

Yes, Fast Translate is free to use. It is available as a free plugin on WordPress.org.

How many websites use Fast Translate?

Fast Translate has 10 active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

What are the best Fast Translate alternatives?

Popular alternatives to Fast Translate include Loco Translate, WPBakery Visual Composer & qTranslate-X, ACF: Rus-To-Lat. You can compare them side-by-side on our comparison pages.

Does Fast Translate work with the latest WordPress?

Fast Translate has been tested up to WordPress 5.3.21. It requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+.

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Fast Translate

Name: Fast Translate
Author: Bjoern

Faster WordPress localization with cache support.

By Bjoern·L10n·Free

·10 active installs·Updated 6 years ago

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As of April 2026, Fast Translate is a WordPress l10n plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Loco Translate.

0/5Rating

10active installs

3.8K+total downloads

9 yearssince 2017

Overview

Changing the WordPress site language to any other than English slows down page generation times. A lot. This is caused by the slow and inefficient way of text domain loading. PO and MO files are designed to be used with PHP Gettext-extension. But since it’s an extension, it’s not installed by defalt on very hosting platform. To overcome this barrier, WordPress has re-implemented the whole MO file parsing in PHP, but WordPress’ implementation is quite slow and memory intense.

This plugin replaces the default MO-Reader with another implementation of MO parsing, which is faster than the default one. Only used text domains are loaded (since version 4.6 this is also WordPress’ default behaviour) and from these only used translations are loaded. It also makes use of hash…

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