We just released WooCommerce Multilingual 5.5.0 Beta. This major version focuses on extensive refactoring and improvements to address the most frequent issues you’ve reported.
We encourage you to test this beta to ensure that your previous WooCommerce Multilingual issues are resolved and functioning smoothly.
We plan to release the production version of WooCommerce Multilingual 5.5.0 on June 16th.
What’s New in This Beta Version
Multicurrency Improvements
We got a number of reported edge cases where filtering, sorting and calculations that involve multicurrency were sometimes wrong.
To address these, we implemented the following fixes:
- More accurate filtering and sorting of products by secondary currency prices.
- Improved calculation of multicurrency shipping costs, considering rounding and taxes.
- Better price calculations and improved support for the WooCommerce Products addons.
- Improved display of price ranges for products with multiple variants.
- Support for Grouped products that are set to “Show only products with custom prices”
Product Reviews
We improved handling and display of translated product reviews. Now, they appear correctly across different templates, duplicates, and REST API integrations.
To translate product reviews, go to WPML → Translation Management, and scroll to the Other texts (Strings) section. There, select the wcml-reviews domain, select reviews you want, and send them for translation.
Downloadable Products URL Translation
It is now possible to translate URLs for downloadable products.
When translating a product in the Advanced Translation Editor, start typing “http” into the search and the URLs of your downloadable products will appear. You can specify unique URLs for each language.
Performance Enhancements
After our last round of performance improvements in WPML 4.7.2, we realized that we can further improve the speed of backend actions. This especially applies to saving products and product variations, which should now be faster.
In our tests, saving a product with variations was, on average, 60% faster compared to previous versions.
Preparation for Deprecating Twig Templates
As we recently announced, we are preparing to drop support for custom currency switchers based on Twig templates.
WooCommerce Multilingual 5.5.0 doesn’t yet change anything, but if you’re using such currency switchers, you should start migrating them to a PHP-based solution.
If you need help with this, please create a ticket in our support forum and our team will be happy to help you with this.
How to Download This Beta
You should never install a beta version on a live production site.
To download this beta, go to the Plugins page, click the Add New button and then click the Commercial tab. Under the Update channel option, select Beta and click the Switch button in the dialog that appears.
You will now see WooCommerce Multilingual & Multicurrency 5.5.0 Beta in the list and will be able to install it.
Your Feedback Is Crucial
Testing is crucial to ensure the stability and effectiveness of these improvements. Please download the beta, test it thoroughly, and share your findings.
Your insights are invaluable and help us ensure a seamless experience upon official release.
We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments below.
avrei proprio bisogno di velocizzare il sito ma aspeterò che la versione sia ufficiale
Hi Gianluca! Please report the performance problems on your WooCommerce site using the contact form on this page: https://wpml.org/home/contact-us/report-performance-issues-with-woocommerce/
The message will go directly to our Support Manager and our team will prioritize looking into it. They can see what is causing the slowness and will debug it.
Thank you!
Since the latest version of woocommerce multilingual 5.5.0 my debug log is completely full with this depreciation lines:
[24-Jun-2025 16:22:18 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Optional parameter $post_translations declared before required parameter $wpdb is implicitly treated as a required parameter in /data/sites/web/website/www/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-multilingual/inc/class-wcml-products.php on line 33
Is there a way to fix this? There are so many I can hardly see anything else.
Hi! Our developers just checked and the order mentioned in your deprecation lines from debug log are the same as before, we haven’t changed this in this release.
Which PHP version is your site running?
Hi Dario,
That is strange. It was not there before. Perhaps the code was not activated in the previous version on my site. I am running an older version of PHP. It is PHP 8.3. I am waiting a bit with PHP 8.4 to give plugin developers time for it.
Hi, thank you for your quick reply! I’ve shared it with our developers and they’re already looking into this. We should have a fix for it soon and are already planning the release of WCML 5.5.1 for this and some other minor fixes.
awesome. Thanks for the fast support