SleekView for Polylang: translations and languages as customizable tables
Polylang stores languages and translation links in standard WordPress term taxonomy rather than custom tables. SleekView reads that translation graph and surfaces per-language coverage for every post, page, and term as one filterable table.
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Polylang coverage without the spreadsheet
Polylang's clever design is also its operational problem: language is a taxonomy term and translation links are stored as a serialized association in term_taxonomy, so coverage data is spread across terms, term_taxonomy, term_relationships, and a translation taxonomy that is invisible in the standard admin UI. SleekView walks those joins and produces a per-row, per-language status column, then caches the resolution so a 30,000-post site loads in seconds.
The default Polylang admin appends one language column at a time to the standard post list and resets filters between visits. SleekView puts every configured language and every post type in a single table, with saved views like missing-in-DE, stale-since-March, or Polylang-Pro-translatable-strings-only. Inline translator notes live next to the row instead of in a parallel spreadsheet.
For agencies running multilingual rollouts, the practical effect is that translators receive a CSV of exactly the slugs that are missing French, instead of the whole post list with empty French columns. For site owners, the same data answers the renewal-meeting question of how Polylang coverage trends month over month.
Workflow
How SleekView surfaces Polylang coverage
Walk the translation taxonomy
Render per-language columns
Save coverage snapshots
Hand off translator CSVs
Sample columns
A typical Polylang translation coverage view
WordPress term taxonomy (Polylang language and translation taxonomies on standard tables)
| Title | Type | EN | DE | FR | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| About us | Page | Linked | Linked | Draft | Apr 24, 2026 |
| Spring sale | Post | Linked | Missing | Missing | Apr 22, 2026 |
| Privacy policy | Page | Linked | Linked | Linked | Apr 18, 2026 |
| Old promo | Post | Linked | Stale | Missing | Feb 12, 2026 |
Comparison
Default Polylang admin vs SleekView
Default Polylang admin
- Language columns are appended to standard post tables one screen at a time
- No combined view across post types
- Filters reset between visits
- Stale translations are hard to spot
- Bulk translation creation is per-post
SleekView
- All post types and languages in one table
- Saved views for missing or stale translations
- Inline edit notes per row
- Filter by language, post type, or last updated
- CSV export for translator handoffs
Features
What SleekView gives you for Polylang
Per-language columns
Each Polylang language becomes a sortable column with linked, missing, draft, and stale badges resolved from the translation taxonomy in real time.
Find missing or stale
Save a view for missing-in-target or for posts where the source has been edited after the translation, and reload that combination instantly.
Inline translator notes
Leave handoff notes per row that travel with the CSV export, so translators see the work scope and context without parallel spreadsheets.
Audience
Who uses SleekView for Polylang
Localization managers
Plan translation work with concrete coverage numbers from term_taxonomy instead of estimates pulled from sampling the post list.
Translators
Pull a scoped CSV of exactly the posts that need them, with title, source URL, and last-edit date in the columns they actually use.
Site owners
Track where Polylang coverage drops below acceptable thresholds and budget translation work before gaps become customer-facing.
The bigger picture
Why Polylang taxonomy needs a real reporting layer
Polylang's reliance on standard taxonomy is a strength for portability and a headache for reporting. The translation relationship sits in a hidden taxonomy that the standard wp_list_table never exposes, so anyone running multilingual content at scale ends up writing custom WP_Query loops, dumping CSVs from phpMyAdmin, or maintaining a parallel spreadsheet. Each of those approaches drifts within weeks.
The team that ships a 200-post Polylang site without a coverage layer typically ends up with stale German translations and missing French ones inside three months, then spends a sprint reconciling. Reading the translation taxonomy directly puts that data back where it belongs — in WP admin, next to the posts. A localization manager can plan against real numbers instead of estimates, a translator can see that 84 posts need French and pull a scoped CSV, and a site owner can see Polylang's actual coverage rather than the flattering version shown on the per-post screen.
The plugin is still doing all the linking; the operational layer is what was missing.
Questions
Common questions about SleekView for Polylang
Polylang uses standard WordPress term taxonomy. Languages are taxonomy terms in a custom Polylang taxonomy, and translation relationships are stored as a serialized association in term_taxonomy.description. There are no custom tables, which keeps the schema portable but means coverage queries need careful joins.
No. SleekView gives visibility and management — finding gaps, scoping work, surfacing handoff CSVs — while the actual translations are still entered through Polylang's editor, including the Pro string-translation editor when applicable.
Yes. Combine post type, language, status, last-updated, and any registered taxonomy. The filter combination saves as a view and reloads with one click, which matters when you audit Polylang weekly.
Yes. Both the free and Pro versions store language and translation data in the same taxonomy structure. SleekView reads the same tables either way and surfaces Pro-specific features like custom post type translatability when configured.
Yes. Filter to missing in a target language and export to CSV with whichever columns the view shows. Translators receive a scoped brief instead of a full-site dump, and the export respects view-level capability gating.
No. SleekView only queries Polylang taxonomy when an admin loads a view, paginates server-side, and caches resolved translation maps. Front-end Polylang behaviour — language switching, hreflang, and rewrites — is untouched.
Yes. The Polylang Pro String Translation feature stores entries in its own structure, and SleekView ships a separate view for those rows so theme and plugin string coverage is auditable alongside post content.
Yes. Polylang attaches language to terms as well as posts. SleekView includes a terms view with the same per-language status columns, which matters for category-driven sites where untranslated taxonomy breaks navigation.
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