Polylang Pro keeps language and translation relationships inside standard WordPress taxonomy, which is portable, clean, and almost invisible in the default admin. The standard post list shows one language column at a time, filters reset between visits, and the translation relationship sits in a hidden taxonomy that the list table never exposes. Teams running real multilingual programs end up writing custom WP_Query loops, dumping CSVs from phpMyAdmin, or maintaining a parallel spreadsheet that drifts within weeks.

SleekView walks the joins across terms, term_taxonomy, term_relationships, and the Polylang translation taxonomy for every post, page, and term, then renders the result as a real table. Title, post type, language, translation status, sibling slug, and last-modified become first-class columns with sort, filter, and inline edit. A localization manager can scope to one language and one post type or pull every row with a missing sibling in a single click.

Polylang Pro keeps owning language switching, hreflang, and the translation editor including the Pro string-translation feature. The table view owns the audit surface that the taxonomy alone never exposed.

Polylang Pro's reliance on standard WordPress taxonomy is a strength for portability and a headache for reporting. The translation relationship sits in a hidden taxonomy the list table never exposes, so anyone running multilingual content at scale ends up writing custom WP_Query loops, dumping CSVs, or maintaining a parallel spreadsheet that drifts within weeks. Reading the taxonomy directly and rendering it as a real table closes that loop.

Title, language, status, and sibling slug become first-class columns. Filters compose so a translator can pull every missing German sibling in one click. Saved views split the audit by role so localization managers, translators, and stakeholders each get their own surface.

Polylang Pro keeps doing the linking, the editor, and the hreflang work; the table view keeps the audit honest.