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Transliterator – Multilingual and Multi-script Text Conversion

by Ivijan-Stefan Stipic

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✅ MULTILINGUAL SCRIPT SUPPORT:
Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Russian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Kazakh, Ukrainian, Georgian, Greek, Arabic, Armenian, Uzbek, Tajik, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Bashkir

This plugin provides a modern, modular, and extensible solution for transliterating WordPress content between Cyrillic and Latin scripts – with additional support for Arabic-based and other regional alphabets. Originally launched as “Serbian Transliteration,” it has evolved into a general-purpose transliteration tool built to serve a wider multilingual audience.

📝 Discover the evolution of this plugin

You can transliterate entire posts, pages, permalinks, media filenames, usernames, and even selectively control output using built-in shortcodes. Whether you’re managing a bilingual site or just want cleaner slugs, you remain in control.

🔁 Features include:

  • Real-time conversion between Cyrillic and Latin scripts
  • Transliteration of titles, content, permalinks, filenames, usernames
  • Shortcodes for partial or conditional transliteration
  • Bilingual search across both script types
  • Developer API with hooks and filters
  • No database changes – safe to enable or disable anytime
  • Supports Arabic, Greek, Cyrillic, and regional language variants

All settings are available under Settings Transliteration.

📦 In terms of functionality, this plugin covers and extends what several popular tools offer individually, such as: SrbTransLatin, Cyr-To-Lat, Allow Cyrillic Usernames, Filenames to Latin, Cyrillic Permalinks, Latin Now!, Cyrillic 2 Latin, Ukr-To-Lat, Cyr to Lat Enhanced, HyToLat, Cyrlitera, Arabic to Latin, Geo to Lat, RusToLat, and srlatin.

Instead of relying on multiple separate tools, this all-in-one plugin brings together everything you need in a single, lightweight package – without compromising performance or flexibility.

Every feature in this plugin can be selectively enabled or disabled based on your needs. Additionally, developers can make use of available filters and hooks to further customize behavior. We’ve designed this plugin with flexibility and compatibility in mind.

🧩 Fully compatible with popular plugins and page builders, including:

Make your multilingual content readable, searchable, and SEO-friendly – Transliterate once. Control forever. Latin now!

Plugin Updates

We regularly update the Transliterator plugin to improve its functionality, enhance performance, and ensure compatibility with the latest versions of WordPress and PHP. Keep your plugin up to date to benefit from the latest features and fixes. To stay informed about updates, visit our plugin page on WordPress.org or follow us on social media.

Support and Feedback

If you encounter any issues or have suggestions for improving the plugin, please don’t hesitate to reach out. You can contact us through the support forum on WordPress.org, or directly via GitHub repository. We value your feedback and are committed to providing prompt and effective support.

Compatibility

The Transliterator plugin is compatible with a wide range of WordPress versions and works seamlessly with many popular plugins. However, due to the vast number of available plugins, there’s a small chance of encountering conflicts. If you experience any issues, please check for plugin conflicts and update your WordPress installation and all plugins.

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! If you’re a developer or a user with ideas for improvement, visit our GitHub repository to contribute. You can report issues, suggest new features, or submit pull requests.

Credits

Special thanks to all contributors and beta testers who helped in developing and refining this plugin. Your feedback and support are invaluable.

  1. Install via WordPress Admin:

    • Navigate to WP-Admin -> Plugins -> Add New.
    • In the search bar, type “WordPress Transliteration”.
    • Once you find the plugin, click on the “Install Now” button.

  2. Install via Upload:

    • Download the serbian-transliteration.zip file.
    • Go to WP-Admin -> Plugins -> Add New -> Upload Plugin.
    • Click on “Choose File”, select the downloaded ZIP file, and then click “Install Now”.
    • Alternatively, you can manually upload the unzipped plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins directory via FTP.

  3. Activate the Plugin:

    • Once the plugin is installed, go to WP-Admin -> Plugins.
    • Find “WordPress Transliteration” in the list and click “Activate”.

  4. Configure the Plugin:

    • After activation, go to Settings -> Transliteration in your WordPress admin panel.
    • Adjust the settings according to your needs and save the changes.
  1. Cyrillic page before serbian transliteration

    Cyrillic page before serbian transliteration

  2. Latin page after serbian transliteration

    Latin page after serbian transliteration

  3. Transliteration settings

    Transliteration settings

  4. Converter for transliterating Cyrillic into Latin and vice versa

    Converter for transliterating Cyrillic into Latin and vice versa

  5. Permalink tools

    Permalink tools

  6. Shortcodes

    Shortcodes

  7. Available PHP Functions

    Available PHP Functions

  8. Language script inside Menus

    Language script inside Menus

  9. Automated test

    Automated test

What is Romanization or Latinisation?

Romanisation or Latinisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of writing from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and transcription, for representing the spoken word, and combinations of both.

Which Romanization does this plugin support?

This plugin supports several world letters written in Cyrillic and enables their Romanization

  • Romanization of Serbian what include Bosnian and Montenegrin
  • Romanization of Russian
  • Romanization of Belarusian
  • Romanization of Bulgarian
  • Romanization of Macedonian
  • Romanization of Kazakh
  • Romanization of Ukrainian
  • Romanization of Greek
  • Romanization of Arabic (EXPERIMENTAL)
  • Romanization of Armenian (EXPERIMENTAL)

Each of these transliterations is created separately and follows the rules of the active language.

What is the best practice for transliteration?

Through various experiences, we came to the conclusion that it is best to create the entire site in Cyrillic and enable transliteration for Latin.

The reason for this solution lies in the problem of transliteration of Latin into Cyrillic due to encoding and, depending on the server, can create certain problems, especially in communication with the database. Creating a site in Cyrillic bypasses all problems and is very easily translated into Latin.

Is Latin better for SEO than Cyrillic?

According to Google documentation and discussions on forums and blogs, it is concluded that Latin is much better for SEO and it is necessary to practice Latin at least when permalinks and file names are in Latin, while the text can be in both letters but Latin is always preferred.

Can I translate Cyrillic letters into Latin with this plugin?

YES! Without any problems or conflicts.

Can I translate Latin into Cyrillic with this plugin?

YES! This plugin can translate a Latin site into Cyrillic, but this is not recommended and often causes problems. It is suggested that this approach be approached experimentally.

The best practice is to create a Cyrillic site including all other content and in the end just add transliteration to navigation so that the visitor can choose the desired script.

How to transliterate Cyrillic permalinks?

This plugin has a tool that transliterates already recorded permalinks in your database. This option is safe but requires extra effort to satisfy SEO.

With this tool, you permanently change the permalinks in your WordPress installation and a 404 error can occur if you visit old Cyrillic paths.

Therefore, you must re-asign your sitemap or make additional efforts to redirect old permalinks to new ones, which our plugin does not do.

If you are using WP-CLI, this function can also be started with a simple shell command: wp transliterate permalinks

How can I define my own substitutions?

You can customize the transliteration process by defining your own substitutions directly in your theme’s functions.php file. This is done by using filters specific to the language you want to modify.

To create custom substitutions, use the following filter:

add_filter( 'transliteration_map_{$locale}', 'function_callback', 10, 1 );

Here’s an example for Serbian (sr_RS) that demonstrates how to modify both single letters and multiple-letter combinations.

/*
  * Modify conversion table for Serbian language.
  *
  * @param array $map Conversion map.
  *
  * @return array
  */
function my_transliteration__sr_RS( $map ) {

    // Example for 2 or more letters
    $new_map = [
        'Ња' => 'nja',
        'Ње' => 'nje',
        'Обједињени' => 'Objedinjeni'
    ];
    $map = array_merge($new_map, $map);

    // Example for one letter
    $new_map = [
        'А' => 'X',
        'Б' => 'Y',
        'В' => 'Z'
    ];
    $map = array_merge($map, $new_map);

    return $map;
}
add_filter( 'transliteration_map_sr_RS', 'my_transliteration__sr_RS', 10, 1 );

In this example:
– The first $new_map array defines substitutions for combinations of two or more letters.
– The second $new_map array defines substitutions for individual letters.

This custom mapping will override the default transliteration rules for the specified language (sr_RS in this case).

Odličan plugin, vrhunska podrška

By remirs on September 1, 2025

Svaka preporuka za upotrebu. Plugin radi posao u svakom smeru.

Imao sam problem i koliziju sa nečim na sajtu, međutim uz odličnu podršku developera plugina to je rešeno.

Svaka čast

By slobamil on August 9, 2025

Već dugo tragam za ovako nečim. Bravo majstore!

Hvala za trud

By mdesignweb on March 13, 2025

Bilo je određenih problema sa pluginom i Elementor Pro ali je otklonjeno. Hvala za trud i što ovaj plugin postoji. Srećno!

Cool

By projectsoft on February 6, 2025

Cool

Great plugin

By Stefan Monov on January 12, 2025

Easy to use and does exactly what I need

Slowing down the entire site and disables cache.

By markez123 on January 7, 2025

We have spent lots of time to try and get this plugin to work properly but we couldn't succeed. We emailed the support a few times on the issue but no response was received on the matter.
Sites are about 10 times slower when this plugin is active. And the cache does not work properly.
We hope this issue gets resolved in the future.

Also the WordPress not having SR latin is a disaster decision with ridiculous arguments. (I know it's unrelated to this plugin but it goes in the same context 😁)

Great app

By libuzo on November 22, 2024

Love it

Super plugin i podrska

By mishmedia on August 27, 2024

Plugin spasava od potencijalno puno, puno rada.

Podrska fenomenalna.

Extra

By bestsase on July 6, 2024

Super plugin, dugo smo pokusavali nac slican plugin!

Neophodan dodatak

By pomac on April 5, 2024

Neophodan dodatak

2.4.0

  • Fixed language detection with PLL plugin
  • Fixed problem with stuck loops
  • Fixed navigation issue
  • Fixed gettext problems

2.3.10

  • Bugfix for the “_load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly”

2.3.9

  • Quick fix for memory leak issues from the previous version.

2.3.8

  • Fixed critical issue with Polylang integration where non-Cyrillic languages (e.g., DE, EN) were incorrectly transliterated to Cyrillic on first visit.
  • Added robust detection logic with safe fallback to Latin for unresolved or unknown localeaas.
  • Improved is_cyrillic_locale() to include lazy caching and reliable Polylang language detection through pll_language_defined and wp hooks.
  • Added safety-net inside transliteration process to prevent accidental lat_to_cyr mode when language is not confirmed as Cyrillic.
  • Restricted Polylang “first-visit” language list strictly to Cyrillic-script languages.
  • Ensured consistent behavior in phantom mode and early-page rendering phases.

2.3.7

  • Added Croatian Cyrillic alphabet support
  • Improved translations and documentations

2.3.6

  • Bugfix on _load_textdomain_just_in_time
  • Improved Script Selector in the Blocks
  • BUgfix on the UTF-8 encoding

2.3.5

  • Fixed bugs on requests
  • Critical errors fixed
  • Fixed encoding for BOM and UTF-8

2.3.4

  • Added new transliteration maps
  • Improved and optimized transliterations
  • Optimized code
  • Fixed GUI bugs

2.3.3

  • Fixed domain was triggered too early
  • Fixed admin transliteration
  • Improved debugging
  • Added transliteration for js-composer
  • Improved plugin speed
  • Improved PHP code
  • Improved transliterations

2.3.2

  • Fixed Wp Admin transliteration
  • Improved WooCommerce transliteration
  • Code Optimizations

2.3.1

  • Fixed UI
  • Fixed translations

2.3.0

  • Brought codebase to PSR-12 coding standard
  • Refactored features and functionalities for faster execution and better maintainability
  • Prepared and tested plugin compatibility for WordPress version 6.8
  • Removed all PHP 5.6 specific syntax to support minimum PHP 7.4
  • Modularized core logic for better structure and scalability
  • Optimized loading time by reducing unnecessary function calls
  • Improved type declarations and error handling for critical functions

2.2.3

  • Fixing bugs regarding Tag transitions

2.2.2

  • Fixed problem with l10n.php algo
  • Removed PHP errors

2.2.1

  • Fixed PHP errors from the previous version
  • Improved UTF-8 encoding
  • Optimized transliteration scripts
  • Added support for the special HTML attributes

2.2.0

  • NEW: Phantom Mode – ultra fast DOM-based transliteration (experimental)
  • Fixed forced transliteration
  • Improved site optimization

2.1.8

  • Added support and integration for Polylang plugin
  • Improved and optimized permalink algorithm
  • Optimized plugin loading
  • Added new filters for developers

2.1.7

  • Optimized main plugin control model
  • Added navigation caching
  • Fixed a bug with the repeating notification

2.1.6

  • Fixed autoloader to keep algorithms inside the plugin
  • Optimized transliterator for pages and posts

2.1.5

  • Fixed permalink problems for the new posts
  • Fixed performances for the post updates

2.1.4

  • Fixed SEO module for the Google index

2.1.3

  • Fixed sitemap redirection issues
  • Added new attributes for transliteration
  • Removed unnecessary and obsolete code
  • Optimization of PHP algorithms

2.1.2

  • Fixed PHP fatal errors
  • Improved transliteration of cached content
  • Added security protocols
  • Improved PHP code

2.1.1

  • Fixing filters for the Contact Form 7

2.1.0

  • Added new autoloader for better performances
  • Added new caching functionality
  • Added prevention of redirection on AJAX calls
  • Improved PHP code
  • Fixed bugs from the previous version
  • Improved block editor script

2.0.9

  • Fixed bugs for the WordPress version 6.7
  • Fixed translations

2.0.8

  • Support for the WordPress version 6.7

2.0.7

  • Fixed infinity redirection loop
  • Fixed transliteration bugs into permalinks
  • Fixed 404 error on certain cyrillic pages

2.0.6

  • Added new filterings for the posts
  • Removed expencive functions
  • Added new filters and sanitizations

2.0.5

  • Fixed problem with disabled transliteration
  • Fixed problem with tag transliteration
  • Fixed redirections

2.0.4

  • Changed transliteration operations
  • Optimized object transliteration
  • Improved code for PHP8.3

2.0.3

  • Improved cookie control

2.0.2

  • Fixing bugs for the PHP version 8.3 and above
  • Fixing Cookie problems
  • Fixing problem with double inclusions
  • Fixing problems with WP filters
  • Improved site speed

2.0.1

  • Bug fix
  • Adding stricter permalink transliteration
  • Improved debugging

2.0.0

  • Complete redesign and refactoring of the PHP code
  • Full support for WordPress 6.6 and higher
  • Compatibility with PHP 8.x versions
  • Fixed issues with Cyrillic transliteration
  • Enhanced optimization and better content control
  • Added support for visual editors
  • Bug fixes and improved system stability
  • Ready for future extensions and new functionalities
  • Added admin tools for easier content transliteration management
  • Improved user interface with better accessibility options
  • Streamlined settings page for more intuitive navigation
  • Added support for multilingual content and automatic language detection
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