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Simple Admin Language Change
Quick language swaps for your dashboard without any annoying sales pitches.
HealthyDeclining
78/100
This lightweight tool provides easy language switching without annoying upsells. Some theme conflicts may occur.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.7★
22 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-16%
Declining
46 → 39 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -16% in the last year
46/day a year ago→39/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySimple Admin Language Change is praised for its straightforward ability to switch the admin dashboard language without ads or upsells, though a few users report incompatibilities with certain themes and plugins and note the lack of a revert option.
What people like
- +Provides a simple, easy-to-use interface for switching the admin dashboard language×12
- +No advertisements or upsell to a paid version
- +Supports multiple languages, including RTL, and allows per-user language selection×4
- +Works with recent WordPress releases despite warnings×2
Common complaints
- −No built-in way to revert the language change without deactivating the plugin
- −Conflicts with certain themes or plugins (e.g., OceanWP theme, WPBakery Page Builder, SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle)×3
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.76★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 5%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 40% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 22 total
Latest reviews · 22 analyzed
- 2024-12-06★★★★★Perfect tool for testing multilingual sitesNiels Lange
- 2024-01-12★★★★★A Game-Changer for Multilingual ManagementAlex De Py
- 2023-12-15★★★★★Elegant, simple solutionGroovyx9
- 2023-10-06★★★★★Right to the pointyehudaT
- 2023-09-26★★★★★Compatible with WordPress 6.3.1 – It works as expected!mrloki
- 2023-03-27★★★★★Work as expectedAliandro
- 2022-05-09★★★★★Worksbobbobbius
- 2022-04-25★★★★★One of must-have plugins for expansion to other countriesrptr
- 2021-11-18★★★★★As the name says: simplekwashiorkor
- 2021-10-12★★★★★It does the job rightdanielepais
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
27
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
27
Prior 7-day baseline
30
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
150
Mean release-day peak (30d)
66
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
0.0%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
40%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.87
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
86%
5★ share in analyzed sample
5%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.68 → 4.76★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered