Introduction

Languages, Multi-lingual Content, Automatic translations, Language Edition

After more than 12 years Falang is still the easiest system to translate your Joomla site into one or more languages.
You don't need to duplicate everything, just translate your default language into one or more languages.
The most used components are supported by Falang with content element.
You can use translation service to help you in the translation like deepl/google/azure


Falang 5.22 compatible with Joomla 5 and Joomla 4.3+ released the 2025/09/29
Joomla 4 compatible is Falang 4.X version last 4.14 (2023/10/10)
Joomla 3.9 and 3.10 are Falang 3.10.X version last version 3.10.6 (2022/10/21)

Since the 2.0 vesion show you the status of component translation directly in joomla for menu, article, module.... you can easy extend it for almost all components.

The component is so flexible that you can easily add new components at a later date and then translate the new content.

With extensions you can translate k2, aiContactSafe, hikashop, Redshop, jDownload, phocaDownload ....

The free version has a backlink to faboba site. You can remove it if you upgrade to a basic or standard version without losing your translations and parameters.

The Free version has some limitations.

Falang doesn't use the default language system of Joomla 2.5 and 3.5. You don't have to specify a language for each content article or menu item (which results in a huge amount of duplication).

Did you ever ask yourself how you can create a multi-lingual website without copying every single item and re-creating them in the new language? Then Falang is one of the possible answers to this problem.

In case of problems look for the solution in that page: falang’s problems resolution

Falang was a fork of Joomfish (2012)

The Falang 5.X are for Joomla 4.4 to the last 5.3 version

5.22 (2025/09/29)
* allows language change in yootheme customizer
* add show status of Falang custom fields plugin , in the falang cpanel list
* refactor custom fields code in the new falang cf plugin
* fix acfupload translation bug
* improve display of custom fields

5.21 (2025/09/04)
* add new system plugin to manage custom fields system/falangcf
* add custom fields extra tab (allow disabled translation)
* fix tassos gallery custom field display
* fix calendar custom fields empty translation
* display only custom field set to all language for translation
* fix dynamic properties on TranslationFilter (hide warning)
* fix tag translation (no param's in translation)
* fix help link for non en-GB language in backend
5.20 (2025/06/30)
* fix custom fields multiple line copy/transalte (use base64)
* fix quickjump settings in content element xml file
* fix calendar custom field for non utc site
* fix quickjump bug with ajax call

5.19 (2025/05/27)
* add tags param's translation
* Automatically update the smart search index upon article translation changes.

5.18 (2025/04/15)
* fix front-end edition translation
* allow editor custom fields copy/translate (not display the original value)
* fix bug in Custom fields translation copy

5.17 (2025/04/03)
* add message for yootheme article / translation build with yootheme buidler
* put back the English canadian and french canadian in translation services
* add acf upload support (yootheme builder dynamic field) (not work on subform)

5.16 (2025/03/17)
* add Translate for Yootheme search support (change signature of FalangContentTable)
* remove unused class
* start to change code to be Joomla 6 compatible
* fix titletext copy/translation (banner)
* update banner.xml content element
* update status of translation list on quickjump edit

5.15 (2025/02/11)
* fix bug in copy/translate article meta description/keywords
* improve vikRentCart support, switching on same item

5.14 (2024/12/16)
* fix quickjump bug
* fix astroid framework article param's translation
* fix Google translation on Joomahaper template (Helix plugin)
* improve code in Template by language

4.14 (2023/10/10)
* add 4sef support

3.10.7 ((2023/04/04)
* fix Joomla 4 update process without disabling Falang
* add dlid param's in package (paid version)
* add message to set downloadid
* fix mod_falang inline display language flags

Perfect service



Posted on 18 January 2013
Go immediately for the standard version and you get a perfect service and a perfect tool that even K2 translated ! Super service Stéphane
I almost decided to use Falang instead of Joomfish on joomla 2.5. Almost.



I was migrating an old 1.5. site to 2.5. and read in the forums that it's better to use Falang.

It seems to be identical to joomfish at first, however, I realised that unlike with joomfish, the item aliases that appear in the URLs don't get translated!



This may seem like a minor compromise for a new site, but in my case all my old URLs in the second language would have to change. I'm sorry but that's an SEO disaster, and this matters to me.



I've decided to stick with the buggy prerelease version of joomfish for 2.5 instead. For now at least. I'll keep my eye on Falang too... It will be interesting to see in the near future which one of these two adapts to joomla 3.5 first... going to be quite a race I think.
Owner's reply: Hi,

Yes you're right Falang don't translate url (soon) but you can use another sef tool to do it. like joomsef , acesef, mijosef....
The version for joomla 3.0 will be launch this week.

Great stuff



Posted on 14 January 2013
I've been using JoomFish till a few months ago. For the redesign of a constumer's website I tried FaLang. After a short period of orientation the extension works great. Had a little problems, which I finally got solved with a few hints of the developer.



Would use it again w/o hesitating.
Really good component but needs some changes to make things work. Do not forget to set the default language to the language your articles are or you will not be able to make the translation
I have bought the commercial license and have few problems to make it work on my sites. Thanks to quick support I have been able to solve it. I did some mistakes because I have migrated my site from wordpress so falang didnt liked the language codes of wordpress. Great component, simple to use and outstanding support.

Finally I am happy



Posted on 07 January 2013
I was using the joomfish as it has two way of translation,I initially face problem while selecting mysqli and enabling the plugin, but now I am used to with falang and I am happy with prompt reply of stephane Bouey as i have 10 reply in 30 minutes as his reply like realtime chat. thank you stephane Bouey and faboba team.

falang



Posted on 05 January 2013
similar to joomfish on J2.5, great component and Stephanie gives fast support, I recommend it.

essential



Posted on 04 January 2013
For migrating a site running joom! Fish this extension is critical, it retains the simplicity of the desk. And allows easy migration. Simply bravo and thank you.

Great tool



Posted on 11 December 2012
Great extension and timely support by Stephane. Highly recommended!

Very good, easy to use



Posted on 10 December 2012
I downloaded Falang because I needed it to use with HikaShop. It seems really good. There aren't automatic translations, apart from the basic shopping cart stuff which has been translated by a previous HikaShop user; you translate all the product information yourself so it's done properly as you want and Falang connects the two, or more, language versions. Magic! I had to contact Stephane once and he was helpful and friendly.
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FaLang

Version:
5.22
Developer:
Stéphane Bouey
Last updated:
Sep 29 2025
1 week ago
Date added:
Nov 19 2014
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Registration:
Yes
Includes:
c m p
Compatibility:
J3 J4 J5
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Uses Joomla! Update System

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