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If by “affiliate plugin” you mean a plugin for managing affiliate/referral tracking on a multilingual WooCommerce site, I’d focus on how it handles translated product URLs, not just whether its dashboard can be translated.

What I’d choose

1. AffiliateWP + WPML — strong established option

AffiliateWP is a mature affiliate-management plugin, and WPML currently lists it as “Partial – known issues” for multilingual WooCommerce. WPML

That means I would not choose it blindly if your core requirement is that affiliates link to translated product pages. You'd want to test your exact language/URL setup on staging.

2. Ultimate Affiliate Pro + WPML — worth considering

WPML currently lists Ultimate Affiliate Pro as Compatible. It supports referral tracking, commissions, payouts, and an affiliate portal. WPML

For a multilingual WooCommerce site, this is the combination I'd investigate first if you need a full affiliate-program system.

3. WC Affiliate — particularly interesting for simpler setups

The current WordPress.org listing says WC Affiliate is compatible with WPML and Polylang, and affiliates can create referral links to product pages, category pages, landing pages, or the homepage. WordPress.org

That makes it potentially attractive if your main requirement is:

Affiliate clicks → translated product URL → WooCommerce purchase → commission

rather than needing an extremely sophisticated affiliate-management platform.

The important part: translated product URLs

If you're using WooCommerce + WPML, WPML maintains separate translated product entries and links them together. Its WooCommerce integration explicitly supports External/Affiliate products, as well as translated product URLs and multilingual SEO. WPML WPML

So I'd structure the site roughly like:

English:
example.com/product/coffee-machine/

French:
example.com/fr/produit/machine-a-cafe/

German:
example.com/de/produkt/kaffeemaschine/

Then the affiliate system needs to preserve the actual translated URL that the affiliate is promoting, rather than redirecting everyone to the English canonical product.

My practical shortlist

One other important distinction: WPML is the multilingual layer, not the affiliate plugin. WPML's WooCommerce integration handles translated products, variations, URLs, SEO, etc. WPML

If you tell me (1) WooCommerce or not, (2) WPML/Polylang/TranslatePress, (3) how many languages, and (4) whether you're promoting your own products or Amazon/other merchants, I can narrow this down to the most appropriate setup and explain exactly how the affiliate links should work across languages.

If you mean a WordPress affiliate site where the same product review/affiliate page exists in multiple languages and the affiliate links should work correctly on each translated page, I would usually choose a multilingual plugin + an affiliate link manager, rather than looking for one plugin that does both.

My shortlist:

1. Best overall: WPML + an affiliate link plugin

Choose this if you have a serious affiliate site (hundreds/thousands of products, multiple languages, SEO focus).

Why:

• Handles translated posts, custom post types, taxonomies, and WooCommerce-related content. WPML WPML
• Better suited when each language has its own product page URL (for example /en/product-x/, /de/product-x/, /fr/product-x/).
• Lets you maintain separate translated content while keeping language relationships.
• Works well with affiliate link tools such as:

• Pretty Links
• ThirstyAffiliates
• AffiliateWP (more for running your own affiliate program)

WPML is especially attractive if you need translation workflows, WooCommerce compatibility, or a team managing translations. WPML WPML

My pick for: Amazon affiliate sites, comparison sites, SaaS reviews, international content sites.

2. Best lighter option: Polylang + affiliate link manager

Choose this if:

• You have fewer products/pages.
• You manually translate content.
• You want something lighter.

Polylang can work well for multilingual content, but complex affiliate setups often require more testing because some affiliate plugins/themes have better documented compatibility with WPML. Polylang

My pick for: small affiliate blogs with 2–5 languages.

3. Best if you want easy visual translation: TranslatePress

Good when:

• You want to translate directly from the front end.
• Non-technical editors will maintain translations.
• Your affiliate pages are mostly normal WordPress pages.

Less ideal if you have a huge catalog of products because managing many translated product pages can become tedious.

Affiliate-specific things to check before choosing

Whichever stack you use, make sure it supports:

• Separate affiliate links by language

• Example:

• English page → US Amazon link
• German page → Amazon.de link
• French page → Amazon.fr link
• Translated product metadata

• Product names
• Tables
• Pros/cons
• Schema markup
• Images/alt text
• SEO language handling

• hreflang tags
• translated URLs
• canonical URLs
• Link localization

• A visitor from France should not necessarily receive your US affiliate link.

My recommended stacks

If you are building an affiliate product review site (not a WooCommerce store), I would lean toward WPML + Pretty Links or ThirstyAffiliates. If you tell me whether you use Amazon Associates, Awin, Impact, ShareASale, ClickBank, or direct merchant links, and roughly how many products/pages you have, I can narrow it down.

If your key requirement is affiliate links that keep working when the same WooCommerce product has translated versions, I’d choose Affiliate for WooCommerce + WPML/WooCommerce Multilingual.

My ranking

1. Affiliate for WooCommerce — best overall

• Specifically integrates with WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency.
• Designed natively around WooCommerce.
• Supports tracking referrals/commissions across multiple currencies. WooCommerce
• This is my first choice if you're building a serious multilingual WooCommerce store.
• AffiliateWP — best if you want a mature, flexible affiliate system

• It has explicit WPML compatibility.
• Affiliate tracking works with non-English WPML URLs, including pretty affiliate links.
• However, AffiliateWP describes its WPML compatibility as partial, with some limitations around the custom link generator and multilingual affiliate emails. AffiliateWP
• I'd choose it if affiliate-management features matter more to you than tight WooCommerce/WPML integration.
• SliceWP — good simpler alternative

• Built specifically for WordPress + WooCommerce. SliceWP
• I'd put it behind the two above for a multilingual store because I would want to verify your exact WPML/translated-product workflow before committing.

The important part: translated product URLs

If your setup looks like:

English:
example.com/product/blue-shoes/

French:
example.com/fr/produit/chaussures-bleues/

German:
example.com/de/produkt/blaue-schuhe/

you want the affiliate system to attribute the French/German purchase to the same affiliate, rather than treating the translated product as an unrelated product.

For this setup, I'd use:

WooCommerce + WPML + WooCommerce Multilingual/Multicurrency + Affiliate for WooCommerce.

WPML's WooCommerce integration is specifically designed to keep translated WooCommerce products connected, including product data and inventory. GitHub WPML

One caveat: don't choose based merely on whether the affiliate plugin's admin interface can be translated. The crucial compatibility question is whether its referral tracking, product association, cookies, commissions, and affiliate URLs survive the language switch.

If you tell me which multilingual plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, etc.) and whether this is WooCommerce, I can narrow it down to the best 1–2 options for your exact setup.

If your setup is WordPress + WooCommerce + translated versions of the same product pages, I’d choose based on whether you mean running your own affiliate program or simply managing affiliate links to products.

My recommendation

Best overall: Affiliate for WooCommerce + WPML

WooCommerce’s Affiliate for WooCommerce is the option I’d pick for a serious multilingual store. It explicitly integrates with WPML and supports tracking/commissions across multiple currencies. It also supports product-based commission rules, coupons, subscriptions, multi-tier commissions, and automated payouts. WooCommerce WooCommerce

For the multilingual side, WPML is particularly well suited to WooCommerce: it creates translated product versions and can give products different language-specific URLs/slugs. WordPress.org

Recommended stack:

• WPML + WooCommerce Multilingual → translations/product URLs
• Affiliate for WooCommerce → affiliate accounts, links, clicks, orders, commissions and payouts
• Optional WPML-compatible currency setup → if each language/market uses a different currency

If you want something cheaper/simpler

WC Affiliate + WPML is worth considering. WC Affiliate says it is compatible with WPML, Polylang and Loco Translate, and affiliates can create referral links directly to product pages. It also supports cross-domain tracking in its Pro version. WordPress.org

What I would not choose primarily for this

Pretty Links is excellent if your main need is managing/redirecting affiliate URLs, rather than operating a full affiliate program. It is translation-ready, but it's not the same category as a WooCommerce affiliate-management system. WordPress.org

The important multilingual issue

Suppose you have:

• /product/blue-shoes/ 🇺🇸
• /fr/produit/chaussures-bleues/ 🇫🇷
• /de/produkt/blaue-schuhe/ 🇩🇪

You don't want an affiliate click on the French product to mysteriously redirect to the English product or lose the affiliate attribution.

That's why I'd favor a WooCommerce-native affiliate plugin + a proper WooCommerce translation plugin, rather than a generic affiliate-link plugin.

My ranking:

1. 🥇 Affiliate for WooCommerce + WPML — best for a serious multilingual WooCommerce store
2. 🥈 WC Affiliate + WPML — good if you want a more economical setup
3. 🥉 Pretty Links + WPML — good for affiliate-link management, but not my choice for running a full affiliate program
4. TranslatePress — excellent translation solution and has out-of-the-box WooCommerce compatibility, but I'd choose the affiliate system separately rather than selecting an affiliate plugin based on TranslatePress compatibility. WordPress.org

If you tell me what affiliate network you're using (Amazon, Awin, Impact, CJ, your own affiliates, etc.) and whether you're using WooCommerce, I can narrow this down to the exact plugin/setup you should use.

If by “affiliate plugin” you mean you are an affiliate publisher—you promote products from Amazon, Impact, Awin, etc.—and your WordPress site has translated product/review pages, I’d choose ThirstyAffiliates.

My recommendation: ThirstyAffiliates + WPML/Polylang

ThirstyAffiliates is particularly suitable because it has explicit integrations with both WPML and Polylang. Its current documentation also lists international/geographic redirects and WooCommerce external-product integration. WordPress.org ThirstyAffiliates

The important distinction is:

• Your product page translations → handled by WPML/Polylang.
• Your affiliate URLs → handled by ThirstyAffiliates.
• The same affiliate destination appearing on multiple language versions → ThirstyAffiliates can manage the underlying link centrally.
• Different affiliate destinations by country → ThirstyAffiliates Pro has geolocation redirects, which is useful if, for example, US visitors should go to Amazon.com while German visitors go to Amazon.de. ThirstyAffiliates ThirstyAffiliates

What I'd choose

Don't confuse AffiliateWP with ThirstyAffiliates: AffiliateWP is primarily for a merchant who wants to recruit/manage affiliates, whereas ThirstyAffiliates is for you as the publisher managing links to merchants. AffiliateWP also describes its WPML compatibility as only partial. AffiliateWP

One important caveat

If your requirement is more specific—e.g. “I have one product in English, French, German, Spanish, etc., and I want each translated WooCommerce product page to automatically have the correct affiliate URL/product ID”—I'd evaluate the architecture differently.

If you tell me which multilingual plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, etc.), whether the products are WooCommerce products, and which affiliate network(s) you're using (Amazon, Awin, Impact, CJ, etc.), I can recommend the exact plugin/setup and explain how I'd structure the translated affiliate links.

If by “affiliate plugin” you mean you are an affiliate publisher linking to products on other merchants’ sites, my first choice would be:

Best overall: ThirstyAffiliates + WPML

thirstyaffiliates.com works particularly well for this setup because its paid plans explicitly include WPML and Polylang translation-plugin integrations. ThirstyAffiliates WordPress.org

Pair it with:

• wpml.org for your multilingual WordPress/WooCommerce site.
• thirstyaffiliates.com for managing, cloaking, categorizing and tracking affiliate links.

WPML is especially strong if your “product pages” are WooCommerce products: it creates language-specific product translations and handles translated products, variations, categories, attributes, URLs, etc. WPML WPML

The important part: translated affiliate links

I'd structure it like this:

English product page → English affiliate destination
French product page → French affiliate destination
German product page → German affiliate destination

Don't rely on simply translating the visible product-page text while keeping one universal affiliate URL. If the merchant has country/language-specific affiliate links, you want the appropriate destination associated with each language.

ThirstyAffiliates' WPML integration is useful here because it can work with translated content rather than treating all language versions as unrelated pages. ThirstyAffiliates

If you're actually running the affiliate program

That's a different situation. If your WordPress/WooCommerce store is the merchant and you need other people to become your affiliates, ThirstyAffiliates is not the right plugin—it explicitly says it is for affiliates managing their own affiliate links, not for running an affiliate program. WordPress.org

In that case, I'd recommend a different stack.

So, assuming you're an affiliate publisher: WPML + ThirstyAffiliates is the combination I'd choose.

If you tell me (1) WooCommerce or regular WordPress, (2) how many languages, and (3) Amazon/Impact/Awin/ShareASale/direct merchants/etc., I can narrow it down to the best 2–3 plugins and explain exactly how I'd configure the translated product pages.

For a multilingual WordPress affiliate site with translated product pages, I would choose the stack based on how your affiliate links and product data are managed. The key is not just “can it translate pages,” but whether it preserves:

• translated product URLs
• language-specific product pages
• affiliate tracking parameters
• product tables/comparison blocks
• custom fields (price, SKU, CTA buttons, reviews, etc.)
• SEO signals (hreflang, canonicals, localized metadata)

My top recommendation: WPML + your affiliate plugin

For a serious affiliate site (Amazon Associates, Awin, Impact, CJ, ShareASale, etc.), I would usually pick WPML. It has the strongest compatibility record with complex WordPress setups, including WooCommerce-style product data, custom post types, fields, and plugin strings. WPML

Good pairing:

• WPML
• ACF (if your products use custom fields)
• Your affiliate link manager/plugin
• SEO plugin such as Rank Math or Yoast

Best if you have:

• hundreds/thousands of products
• multiple languages
• translated comparison pages
• custom product templates
• a team translating content

If your affiliate pages are simple: TranslatePress

Choose TranslatePress if your site is mostly:

• blog posts
• “best X products” articles
• landing pages
• manually inserted affiliate links

Its advantage is the visual translation workflow—you edit translations directly on the front end. TranslateXYZ

The downside: for very large affiliate catalogs with structured product data, I would test carefully.

Budget/lightweight option: Polylang

Polylang is a good choice when you want a lighter setup and are comfortable managing translations yourself. It supports multilingual URLs and integrates with WordPress naturally, but advanced ecommerce/product workflows often require extra integrations. Polylang WPAnything

Affiliate plugins I would be cautious with

Some affiliate management plugins are not automatically multilingual. For example, AffiliateWP has documented WPML compatibility considerations and some known issues around translated pages/features. WPML

If you mean an affiliate marketing content site (you publish product reviews and link out), that matters less. If you mean running your own affiliate program, it matters a lot more.

My suggested setups

Large affiliate SEO site

• WPML
• Rank Math/Yoast
• ACF
• Custom product post type
• Affiliate link management plugin

Amazon affiliate review site

• WPML or TranslatePress
• A product comparison/table plugin
• Affiliate link cloaking/tracking plugin

Small multilingual blog

• TranslatePress or Polylang

A few questions would change the recommendation:

1. Are you promoting other companies' products (Amazon-style affiliate site), or are you running your own affiliate program?
2. How many translated products/pages are you expecting (50, 500, 10,000+)?
3. Are your products WooCommerce products, custom WordPress posts, or imported from an affiliate feed?

If your key requirement is “affiliate links must keep working correctly on translated product pages”, I’d separate the problem into two parts: the multilingual plugin and the affiliate/link-management plugin.

My top choice: WPML + Pretty Links

WPML + Pretty Links is the combination I’d choose for a serious multilingual affiliate site.

• WPML handles translated WooCommerce products, URLs, language directories, and multilingual SEO.
• Pretty Links manages your affiliate destinations centrally, so you don't have to maintain a completely separate raw affiliate URL everywhere.
• Pretty Links Pro can also do keyword/URL replacement, geographic targeting, tracking, and product displays. WordPress.org
• WPML has documented compatibility with affiliate systems such as AffiliateWP, including tracking affiliate links across non-English language URLs. AffiliateWP

If you're using WooCommerce

Another strong option is Polylang for WooCommerce + an affiliate-link manager. Polylang specifically supports translated WooCommerce products, categories, attributes, URLs, etc., and synchronizes things such as stock and prices between product translations. Polylang

I'd lean toward WPML if affiliate/marketing integrations are a major part of the site, and Polylang if you want a leaner multilingual WooCommerce setup.

One interesting alternative

Affiliate Links by wecantrack is worth looking at if you want the affiliate plugin itself to understand different languages. It supports conditional redirects based on language, in addition to affiliate-link management and conversion tracking. WordPress.org

That can be particularly useful if, for example:

/en/product/iphone → US/English affiliate offer
/de/product/iphone → German affiliate offer
/fr/product/iphone → French affiliate offer

What I would avoid

I wouldn't choose an affiliate plugin merely because its admin interface is translated. That's not the important part.

The important questions are:

1. Does the affiliate link remain attached to the translated product/page?
2. Can English/German/French/etc. pages use different merchant URLs when necessary?
3. Does tracking survive language-directory URLs such as /en/, /de/, /fr/?
4. Can you change an affiliate destination once rather than editing hundreds of translated pages?
5. Does it work with your particular multilingual plugin and WooCommerce setup?

If you tell me what you're actually building — e.g. Amazon/Awin/Impact/ClickBank affiliate site, WooCommerce products, or just affiliate links inside blog reviews — and which languages you need, I can narrow this down to 2–3 plugins and tell you exactly which one I'd buy.

Affiliate Links by wecantrack is worth looking at if you want the affiliate plugin itself to understand different languages. It supports conditional redirects based on language, in addition to affiliate-link management and conversion tracking.

That can be particularly useful if, for example:

/en/product/iphone → US/English affiliate offer
/de/product/iphone → German affiliate offer
/fr/product/iphone → French affiliate offer

What I would avoid

I wouldn't choose an affiliate plugin merely because its admin interface is translated. That's not the important part.

The important questions are:

If your key requirement is affiliate links that keep working correctly on translated product pages, I’d choose ThirstyAffiliates + WPML.

My recommendation

thirstyaffiliates.com is a strong fit because it explicitly supports WPML and Polylang, and its Pro plans include those integrations. It also supports affiliate-link management, tracking, geolocation redirects, and WooCommerce external products. ThirstyAffiliates WordPress.org

For the multilingual layer, wpml.org is particularly suitable if you're using WooCommerce: it handles translated WooCommerce product pages and has continued improving how links behave across languages. WPML WPML

The setup I'd use:

• WooCommerce — products
• WPML + WooCommerce Multilingual — translated product pages
• ThirstyAffiliates Pro — affiliate URLs, tracking, redirects
• Use one affiliate-link record per merchant/product, rather than creating separate affiliate links just because the product page has multiple languages.
• If you're using Amazon or other country-specific stores, use ThirstyAffiliates' geolocation redirects so visitors can be sent to the appropriate regional storefront. ThirstyAffiliates

Why I wouldn't pick just any "affiliate plugin"

There are two very different types of WordPress affiliate plugins:

1. Affiliate link managers — for you as a publisher.

ThirstyAffiliates falls into this category.

2. Affiliate-program software — for running your own affiliate program where other people promote your products.

If you're publishing product reviews/comparisons and earning commissions from Amazon, Impact, Awin, ShareASale, etc., you want the first type.

One important distinction: ThirstyAffiliates itself says it is not designed to run an affiliate program for your store. WordPress.org

If you're using Polylang instead of WPML

ThirstyAffiliates also has Polylang support, so you don't necessarily need to switch multilingual plugins just for affiliate links. WordPress.org

Bottom line:
WPML + WooCommerce Multilingual + ThirstyAffiliates Pro would be my first choice for a multilingual affiliate site with translated product pages.

If you tell me which multilingual plugin you currently use (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, etc.) and whether the products are WooCommerce products or external/Amazon products, I can narrow it down to the best 2–3 options and explain exactly how the translated affiliate URLs should be configured.

If your key requirement is “affiliate links should work correctly when the product/content page itself is translated”, I’d choose ThirstyAffiliates + WPML over the alternatives I checked.

My recommendation

1. ThirstyAffiliates — best fit

ThirstyAffiliates explicitly added both WPML and Polylang support, and its changelog includes fixes specifically for WPML-related link handling. WordPress

It is particularly good if your setup looks like:

• English product page → English affiliate destination
• German product page → German affiliate destination
• French product page → French affiliate destination
• Same product represented across multiple translated WordPress URLs

You can maintain the affiliate links centrally rather than scattering raw affiliate URLs throughout translated pages. ThirstyAffiliates WordPress

2. Pretty Links — good, but I wouldn't pick it for this particular requirement

Pretty Links is a very mature affiliate/link-management plugin with 200,000+ active installations. WordPress

However, there is a recently reported WPML issue involving language-specific Pretty Links using the same slug. In the reported case, /nl/go/example and /de/go/example could end up resolving to the English destination. WordPress

That's exactly the kind of problem I'd want to avoid on a multilingual affiliate site.

3. AffiliateWP — different use case

If by “affiliate plugin” you mean a plugin for running your own affiliate program—where other people get affiliate accounts and promote your products—then AffiliateWP is worth considering.

But WPML currently describes AffiliateWP as partially compatible, with known issues involving translated pages and its Custom Link Generator. WPML

So I wouldn't make it my first choice for a multilingual setup.

The important distinction

If you're an affiliate marketer promoting Amazon, Awin, Impact, CJ, individual merchants, etc., use:

WPML/Polylang + ThirstyAffiliates

If you're running your own affiliate program and paying affiliates commissions for sales on your WooCommerce store, that's a different category, and I'd choose based on the affiliate-program plugin rather than a link-management plugin.

Also, if your translated pages have different affiliate destinations by country/language, tell me what you're using for translations (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, or WooCommerce Multilingual) and which affiliate network (Amazon, Awin, Impact, CJ, etc.). I can recommend the exact setup and explain how I'd structure the translated product links. WordPress

If your main requirement is affiliate links that continue to work correctly when the same product has different translated URLs, I’d choose ThirstyAffiliates + WPML.

My recommendation

1. ThirstyAffiliates + WPML — best overall

This is the combination I’d pick for a multilingual affiliate/content site.

• ThirstyAffiliates explicitly supports WPML and Polylang integrations. WordPress.org ThirstyAffiliates
• You can manage the affiliate destination centrally instead of scattering raw affiliate URLs throughout your translated pages.
• WPML handles translated WooCommerce products, including external products, URLs/slugs, categories and other product data. WPML WordPress.org
• This is particularly useful if you have something like: - English: /product/sony-headphones/
• French: /fr/produit/casque-sony/
• German: /de/produkt/sony-kopfhoerer/

2. WC Affiliate — if you're actually running an affiliate program for your own WooCommerce store

If by "affiliate plugin" you mean you have affiliates who promote products on your store and you pay them commissions, rather than you are an affiliate marketer linking to Amazon/other merchants, then I'd look at WC Affiliate instead. It says it is compatible with WPML and can generate referral links to product, category and other store URLs. WordPress.org

3. AffiliateWP — powerful, but I wouldn't make it my first choice for this particular requirement

AffiliateWP is a strong option for running your own affiliate program, but WPML currently lists it as partially compatible, with known issues including affiliate-area content not displaying correctly on translated pages and the custom link generator working only in the default language. WPML That's a significant drawback for a multilingual-first setup.

One important distinction

If you tell me which of these describes your site:

• A. I promote Amazon, Booking.com, Impact merchants, etc. and need to manage my outbound affiliate links.
• B. I sell products with WooCommerce and want other people to become affiliates and earn commissions.
• C. I have WooCommerce products in multiple languages and each language has its own product URL, but I need affiliate tracking across those translated URLs.

…I can recommend the exact plugin stack and configuration. For C, in particular, there are a couple of architectural choices that can prevent lost attribution when visitors switch languages.

AffiliateWP is a strong option for running your own affiliate program, but WPML currently lists it as partially compatible, with known issues including affiliate-area content not displaying correctly on translated pages and the custom link generator working only in the default language. That's a significant drawback for a multilingual-first setup.

One important distinction

If you tell me which of these describes your site:

If you mean a WordPress affiliate-link plugin where the same product exists in multiple translated pages—for example:

• /product/sony-headphones/ → English
• /de/produkt/sony-kopfhorer/ → German
• /fr/produit/casque-sony/ → French

then I’d choose ThirstyAffiliates for most affiliate sites.

My recommendation

1. ThirstyAffiliates — best overall

It has explicit integrations for WPML and Polylang, and its current documentation/features include affiliate-link management, automatic keyword linking, geolocation redirects, click tracking, and WooCommerce integration. ThirstyAffiliates ThirstyAffiliates

That makes it a particularly good fit if your translated product pages are managed with WPML or Polylang.

thirstyaffiliates.com

2. AffiliateWP — choose this if you're actually running your own affiliate program

If you mean "I have affiliates who promote my WooCommerce products" rather than "I am an affiliate promoting other merchants," AffiliateWP is the more appropriate category of plugin. It has WPML compatibility, although its own documentation describes that compatibility as partial, with some limitations around multilingual affiliate areas and emails. AffiliateWP

affiliatewp.com

3. YITH WooCommerce Affiliates — another option for your own store

YITH's current plugin documentation explicitly lists WPML support and is designed around WooCommerce affiliate programs. YITH Free Themes & Plugins

The important distinction

If your setup is:

"I write product reviews and send visitors to Amazon/Awin/Impact/other merchants."

→ ThirstyAffiliates is my pick.

If your setup is:

"I own a WooCommerce store and want other people to earn commissions for referring customers."

→ AffiliateWP or YITH WooCommerce Affiliates makes more sense.

And if you're using WPML + WooCommerce + translated product pages, I would specifically design the affiliate links so that language-specific product URLs are handled correctly, rather than simply duplicating links manually on every translation.

If you tell me which multilingual plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, etc.) and whether you're promoting Amazon/Awin/Impact or running your own affiliate program, I can narrow it down to the best setup.

If by “multilingual affiliate plugin” you mean a WordPress affiliate-link manager that continues to work correctly when the same product/content exists in multiple translated versions, I’d choose ThirstyAffiliates + WPML for most sites.

My pick: ThirstyAffiliates + WPML

thirstyaffiliates.com explicitly supports WPML and Polylang integrations in its paid plans. Its WordPress plugin history also documents both WPML and Polylang support, including fixes specifically related to WPML. ThirstyAffiliates WordPress.org

This is a good setup if you have something like:

• /en/product/sony-headphones/
• /fr/produit/casque-sony/
• /de/produkt/sony-kopfhoerer/

and you want the translated pages to contain the appropriate affiliate links.

ThirstyAffiliates also gives you centralized link management, so if a merchant changes an affiliate URL, you can update the destination centrally rather than hunting through hundreds of translated articles. ThirstyAffiliates

The important distinction

There are actually two different things you might mean:

1. You run an affiliate website
You review/recommend products and send visitors to Amazon, Impact, Awin, etc.

→ ThirstyAffiliates + WPML is my recommendation.

2. You run an online store and want other people to become affiliates for your products

→ That's a different category. You'd want something like AffiliateWP, rather than ThirstyAffiliates. AffiliateWP is designed to run an affiliate program, whereas ThirstyAffiliates is for publishers managing their own affiliate links. WordPress.org

One caveat: AffiliateWP currently describes its WPML compatibility as partial, with some multilingual functionality requiring specific WPML configuration. AffiliateWP

If you're building a serious multilingual affiliate site

I'd structure it as:

WordPress + WPML → translated product/content pages → ThirstyAffiliates → localized affiliate destinations

For example, an English visitor could ultimately go to Amazon US, while a French visitor goes to the appropriate French storefront. ThirstyAffiliates Pro also has geolocation redirects for international storefronts. ThirstyAffiliates ThirstyAffiliates

If you tell me which multilingual plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, etc.) + which affiliate network (Amazon, Awin, Impact, ShareASale, etc.), I can tell you the best plugin combination and exactly how I'd set up the translated product URLs/affiliate links.

If you mean a WordPress affiliate site with product comparison/review pages translated into multiple languages, I would choose based on how your affiliate products are managed.

My top pick: WPML + your affiliate plugin/feed

Best for serious affiliate sites with many translated product pages. Odd Jar Jetpack

Choose WPML if you have:

• Hundreds or thousands of product review pages
• Custom post types (reviews, deals, coupons, comparisons)
• Affiliate product tables
• WooCommerce or WooCommerce-style product data
• A need for translators/editors to manage languages

Why it fits:

• Creates true translated versions of pages/posts/products
• Handles SEO elements like translated URLs and hreflang
• Has strong compatibility with complex WordPress setups Odd Jar

Typical stack:

• WPML → translations
• Rank Math or Yoast → multilingual SEO
• Your affiliate plugin → product links/tables

Best lightweight alternative: Polylang

Good if your affiliate site is mostly:

• Blog posts
• Product reviews
• Buying guides
• Manually created affiliate links

Pros:

• Lightweight
• Good multilingual URL structure
• Lower cost entry point WeLocale

Cons:

• More manual work
• Complex affiliate/product integrations may require extra configuration MeepTech

Best if you want automatic translation: Weglot

Good for:

• Quickly launching many languages
• Testing international traffic

Downside:

• Translation is managed through a hosted service
• Costs can grow with a large product catalog Odd Jar

One important affiliate-specific issue

Avoid translating only the visible text while leaving affiliate data inconsistent.

For each language version, check:

• Product names
• Product descriptions
• Price/currency
• Affiliate URLs
• CTA buttons
• Comparison tables
• Schema markup
• Disclosure text

For example, a German page should ideally have German product copy and a localized affiliate link strategy—not just an English page with machine-translated paragraphs.

My recommendation by site size

If you tell me which affiliate plugin you’re using (AAWP, Content Egg, Affiliate Egg, WooCommerce, Pretty Links, custom API, Amazon Associates, etc.) and how many languages/products you expect, I can narrow it down.

If you mean WooCommerce + multilingual product pages—for example, the same product exists at /product/widget/, /fr/produit/widget/, /de/produkt/widget/ and you need affiliate links to keep tracking correctly—I’d narrow it down to Affiliate for WooCommerce and AffiliateWP.

My recommendation

1. Affiliate for WooCommerce — best overall for a multilingual WooCommerce store

It has explicit compatibility with WPML Multilingual, including tracking referrals/commissions across multiple currencies, and supports 20+ interface languages. WooCommerce

If you're using WPML, this would be my first choice.

woocommerce.com

2. AffiliateWP — best if you want a more established, general-purpose affiliate platform

AffiliateWP supports many languages and has documented WPML compatibility. Importantly, it says standard and pretty affiliate links can track successfully when visitors use non-English WPML languages, provided WPML's browser-language redirect is configured appropriately. AffiliateWP

The catch: its WPML integration is described as partial, and there are some limitations around the Custom Link Generator and multilingual affiliate emails. AffiliateWP

affiliatewp.com

3. Solid Affiliate — excellent if you're firmly WooCommerce-focused

Solid Affiliate is built specifically around WooCommerce and is translation-ready. It handles WooCommerce referrals natively, including product-specific commission rates and affiliate landing pages. Solid Affiliate Documentation | Solid Affiliate

However, if the critical requirement is verified behavior with translated WPML/Polylang product URLs, I'd favor Affiliate for WooCommerce because its multilingual/WPML compatibility is more explicitly documented.

solidaffiliate.com

What I'd choose based on your setup

One important distinction: translating the affiliate plugin UI isn't the same as correctly tracking affiliate referrals to translated product URLs. That's the part I'd test before buying. WPML itself supports translating WooCommerce products, URLs, and currencies, so the affiliate plugin needs to preserve attribution when the visitor switches language. WordPress

If you tell me whether you're using WPML, Polylang, or another translation plugin, and whether your affiliate links are direct product links (e.g. ?ref=123) or affiliate landing pages, I can recommend the exact plugin/configuration I'd use.

For a WordPress affiliate site with translated product pages, I would usually choose based on how complex your catalog and workflow are:

My top pick: WPML + your affiliate plugin of choice

Best if you have:

• Hundreds/thousands of affiliate products
• Product comparison tables
• Custom fields (price, SKU, specs, buttons, reviews)
• WooCommerce-style product layouts
• Multiple languages targeting SEO traffic

WPML is the safest choice because it is built around translating WordPress content structures, not just visible text. It handles separate translated pages, URLs, metadata, custom fields, and complex plugin integrations well. Odd Jar TranslateXYZ

A typical stack:

• WPML → translations
• Rank Math or Yoast → multilingual SEO
• ACF (if needed) → product data fields
• Your affiliate plugin → links/tracking

Best lightweight option: Polylang

Choose Polylang if:

• You manually translate products
• Your site is mostly blog posts + affiliate articles
• You want less overhead
• You don't need complex translation workflows

It creates separate language versions of content and works well for SEO-focused affiliate sites, but advanced WooCommerce/product workflows usually require extra add-ons. WeLocale WPAnything

Best for easy editing: TranslatePress

Choose TranslatePress if:

• You want to visually click and translate pages
• You have fewer products
• Non-technical editors will manage translations

It is very convenient, but for a large affiliate database with many product attributes, I would lean toward WPML. Jetpack

I would avoid relying on:

• Automatic browser translators (bad for SEO because they often do not create real translated pages)
• A translation plugin that only translates text strings but does not duplicate product content
• Affiliate plugins that store product data in shortcodes without translation support

My recommendation by affiliate site type

One important question: what affiliate system are you using? (Amazon Associates, AAWP, Datafeedr, WooCommerce products, Lasso, ThirstyAffiliates, custom API feeds, etc.) The best choice can change because some affiliate plugins store product data differently.

If your setup is WordPress + WooCommerce + translated product pages, I’d prioritize an affiliate plugin that tracks the actual translated product URL rather than assuming every language uses the same URL.

My picks

1. wordpress.org — best overall for your use case

• Explicitly supports WPML and other translation plugins.
• Affiliates can create referral links to product pages, category pages, landing pages, or the homepage.
• Recent versions specifically fixed affiliate URLs containing non-English characters, including Korean and Arabic.
• Good choice if you want affiliates to link directly to /en/product/..., /fr/produit/..., etc. WordPress.org English (UK) WordPress.org
• Affiliate for WooCommerce — best if you want a more established/premium WooCommerce solution

• Handles affiliate tracking and commissions within WooCommerce.
• Has documented compatibility with WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce, including multi-currency commissions. WooCommerce WooCommerce
• I'd choose this if you're building a serious affiliate program rather than just needing basic referral links.
• AffiliateWP — powerful, but I'd put it third for multilingual

• It does work with WPML, including tracking affiliate links in non-English languages.
• However, AffiliateWP itself describes WPML compatibility as partial, with some limitations around its link generator and multilingual affiliate emails. AffiliateWP

The multilingual setup I'd recommend

If you haven't chosen your translation system yet, I'd lean toward:

WooCommerce + WPML + WC Affiliate

WPML supports separate translated product URLs/permalinks, so you can have something like:

English: /en/product/red-shoes/
French:  /fr/produit/chaussures-rouges/
German:  /de/produkt/rote-schuhe/

Your affiliates can then link to the appropriate language's product page, while the affiliate system tracks the resulting WooCommerce order.

If you're using Polylang instead of WPML, that's also viable, but make sure you use Polylang for WooCommerce—the base Polylang plugin alone isn't sufficient for a multilingual WooCommerce store. WordPress.org English (UK) Polylang

My choice: 🥇 WC Affiliate if translated product URLs are your main concern; 🥈 Affiliate for WooCommerce if you want the more comprehensive/premium affiliate-management system.

If you tell me which multilingual plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, etc.) and whether you're using WooCommerce, I can narrow it down to the best 1–2 options and check the exact translated-product tracking behavior.

If by “affiliate plugin” you mean a plugin that lets you run your own affiliate program—where affiliates send visitors to your translated WooCommerce product pages and you track commissions—I’d narrow it down to these:

My top choice: WC Affiliate

WC Affiliate is probably the best fit if multilingual support is a major requirement.

• Compatible with WPML, Polylang, and Loco Translate. WordPress WordPress.org English (UK)
• Affiliates can create referral links to any URL on your store, including individual product pages. WordPress.org English (UK)
• Recent versions specifically fixed handling of non-English characters in affiliate URLs, which is useful if your translated URLs contain Arabic, Korean, etc. WordPress
• Supports coupon-based attribution in Pro and cross-domain tracking in Pro. WordPress.org English (UK)

The important part: your affiliate link should point to the language-specific product URL. For example:

/en/product/blue-shoes/ → English visitor
/fr/produit/chaussures-bleues/ → French visitor

The affiliate tracking should remain attached to whichever translated URL the affiliate promotes.

Strong alternative: Affiliates for WooCommerce

Affiliates for WooCommerce is also attractive if you want something relatively straightforward.

It explicitly says it's translation-ready and works with WPML, Polylang and Loco Translate, while affiliates can generate referral links for products and other store pages. WordPress

I'd choose this over WC Affiliate if you want a simpler, more conventional WooCommerce affiliate setup.

Your multilingual plugin matters too

If you're using WooCommerce, WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce is particularly well suited to this architecture. It can translate WooCommerce products, product URLs/slugs, categories, checkout, etc. WordPress.org English (UK)

So a solid stack would be:

WooCommerce + WPML + WC Affiliate

or, if you prefer:

WooCommerce + WPML + Affiliates for WooCommerce

One important distinction

If you're not running an affiliate program, but instead you're an affiliate yourself and need to manage links to products on Amazon, eBay, Impact, Awin, etc., then I would not choose the plugins above. In that case you're looking for an affiliate-link management/cloaking plugin, such as Pretty Links, with language-specific destination URLs.

If you tell me which multilingual plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, etc.) and whether you're running your own affiliate program or promoting other companies' products, I can tell you the exact plugin/setup I'd use.

Yes. The key distinction is whether you mean:

1. You run your own WooCommerce affiliate program and affiliates send customers to your translated product pages, or
2. You are an affiliate marketer managing links to products from Amazon, Awin, Impact, etc.

If you mean #1, my first choice would be WC Affiliate. It explicitly supports WPML, Polylang, and Loco Translate, and affiliates can create referral links to specific product pages, categories, landing pages, etc. WordPress.org English (UK)

My shortlist

• WC Affiliate — best overall for a multilingual WooCommerce store. Translation compatibility is explicitly documented, including WPML/Polylang, and it supports product-specific referral URLs. WordPress.org English (UK)
• YITH WooCommerce Affiliates — good established alternative. It has documented WPML compatibility, although I would test your exact translated-product workflow before committing. WordPress WordPress
• PW WooCommerce Affiliates — simpler/lightweight option. It supports WooCommerce affiliate tracking and has translations for several languages, but its multilingual integration is less compelling than WC Affiliate's explicit WPML/Polylang compatibility. WordPress
• ThirstyAffiliates — best if you're an affiliate publisher rather than running an affiliate program. Its Pro version explicitly includes integrations with WPML and Polylang, which is particularly useful if the same affiliate offer needs different links on different language versions of your content. ThirstyAffiliates WordPress

What I'd choose

If your setup looks like:

English product → /product/widget/
French product → /fr/produit/widget/
German product → /de/produkt/widget/

and you want one affiliate system to correctly track referrals regardless of which translated product page the visitor lands on, I'd start with WC Affiliate + WPML/Polylang.

The important thing is not merely that the plugin interface is translated. You want the affiliate tracking to survive the language-specific product URLs and have the resulting WooCommerce order attributed to the correct affiliate.

If you tell me which translation plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, etc.), and whether you're running your own affiliate program or promoting external products, I can narrow this down to the best 1–2 plugins and explain exactly how the translated product URLs should be configured.

If you mean a WooCommerce store where the same product exists in multiple languages and affiliate links need to keep tracking correctly regardless of which translated product page the customer lands on, I’d narrow it to two strong choices:

My recommendation: Affiliate for WooCommerce + WPML

woocommerce.com is probably the best fit if multilingual WooCommerce is central to your setup.

• It explicitly supports WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency and can track commissions across multiple currencies. WooCommerce WooCommerce
• It is built specifically around WooCommerce rather than being a generic WordPress affiliate system.
• WPML can create the translated versions of your product pages, including translated product URLs. WordPress.org
• The affiliate plugin itself is translation-ready, so the affiliate-facing UI can also be localized. WooCommerce

Stack I'd choose:

WordPress → WooCommerce → WPML + WooCommerce Multilingual → Affiliate for WooCommerce

That is the combination I'd use for a serious multilingual store.

Alternative: YITH WooCommerce Affiliates

yithemes.com is another good option if you already use the YITH ecosystem. Its current documentation explicitly lists WPML and Loco Translate as supported multilingual plugins. YITH Free WooCommerce Themes

One I'd be more cautious about: AffiliateWP

affiliatewp.com is a very capable affiliate platform, but its own documentation currently describes WPML compatibility as partial. It can track affiliate links in non-English WPML languages, but there are some limitations around its link generator and multilingual affiliate emails. AffiliateWP

So for your specific requirement—translated product pages + affiliate tracking—I wouldn't make AffiliateWP my first choice unless you have another reason to prefer it.

If you're using Polylang instead of WPML

That's also workable. Polylang for WooCommerce supports translated products and synchronizes things such as prices and stock between product translations. Polylang

In that case, I'd want to verify the specific affiliate plugin's handling of translated product IDs/URLs before committing. That's the important part—not merely whether the affiliate plugin's dashboard can be translated.

Bottom line:
WPML + WooCommerce + Affiliate for WooCommerce is my first pick for a multilingual affiliate store. If you tell me which translation plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, etc.) and whether affiliates will link directly to individual product pages, I can tell you exactly which plugin I'd choose and how I'd configure the tracking.

If by “affiliate plugin” you mean you have a multilingual WooCommerce store and want affiliate links to point to the correct translated product page, I’d narrow it down to these:

My pick: WC Affiliate + WPML

WC Affiliate is probably the best fit if multilingual affiliate URLs are the priority. Its current documentation explicitly says it works with WPML and Polylang, and a recent update specifically fixed affiliate URLs containing non-English characters in translated paths. WordPress.org WordPress.org English (UK)

The setup I'd choose:

• WooCommerce
• WPML + WooCommerce Multilingual for the translated products
• WC Affiliate for your affiliate program
• Configure affiliates to link directly to the appropriate language version of each product.

This is especially attractive if you have URLs such as:

/product/red-shoes/
/fr/produit/chaussures-rouges/
/de/produkt/rote-schuhe/

and need the affiliate tracking to survive those language-specific URLs.

Good alternative: AffiliateWP

AffiliateWP is a more established affiliate-management choice, but I'd put it second for your particular requirement. AffiliateWP officially says WPML compatibility is currently partial. Standard and pretty affiliate links work with WPML, but there are limitations around its Custom Link Generator and multilingual affiliate emails. AffiliateWP

So it's excellent if you need a sophisticated affiliate program, but I'd want to test your translated-product workflow before committing.

If you want a simpler WooCommerce-native option

Affiliate for WooCommerce is another strong option. It provides affiliate referral links and tracking directly inside WooCommerce, and its interface can be translated with Loco Translate. WooCommerce WooCommerce

However, I'd specifically test language-specific product URLs before choosing it. Translation of the plugin interface isn't the same thing as automatically handling affiliate links to translated product versions.

One important distinction

If you're actually asking about affiliate links to external merchants—for example, your multilingual WordPress site reviews Amazon products, and you need the affiliate link to change based on the visitor's language/country—that's a different problem. In that case, I'd recommend a link-management plugin rather than an affiliate-program plugin. Pretty Links is one option with substantial link management/tracking functionality. WordPress.org

Bottom line: for a WooCommerce store where each product itself has translated versions, I'd start with WPML + WC Affiliate. If you tell me whether you're using WPML, Polylang, or another translation plugin, and whether you're running your own affiliate program or inserting Amazon/other external affiliate links, I can narrow it to the exact plugin/setup.

If your key requirement is multilingual WordPress + translated product pages + affiliate links, I’d choose ThirstyAffiliates Pro in most cases.

My pick: ThirstyAffiliates Pro

It has explicit integrations with both WPML and Polylang, which is unusually important for your use case. Its changelog specifically lists WPML/Polylang support, and the Pro plan includes those translation-plugin integrations. WordPress.org ThirstyAffiliates

It’s a good fit if you have something like:

• /en/product/widget/
• /de/product/widget/
• /fr/product/widget/

and want the affiliate setup to remain manageable across those translated versions.

It also gives you centralized affiliate-link management, so you can change an affiliate destination without manually hunting through every article/page. WordPress.org ThirstyAffiliates

thirstyaffiliates.com

Second choice: Pretty Links

Pretty Links is a solid alternative if you mainly need redirects, link management and tracking rather than affiliate-specific functionality. It is translation-ready, but I would favor ThirstyAffiliates when WPML/Polylang integration is central to the architecture. WordPress.org

prettylinks.com

One important distinction

If by "affiliate plugin" you mean you are an affiliate publishing other companies' products, use something like ThirstyAffiliates.

If you mean you have a WooCommerce store and want other people to become your affiliates, that's a different category. You'd want an affiliate-program plugin such as AffiliateWP instead; ThirstyAffiliates explicitly says it isn't for running an affiliate program for your own store. WordPress.org English (UK)

For your stated use case, my ranking is:

1. ThirstyAffiliates Pro — best overall for WPML/Polylang + multilingual affiliate sites.
2. Pretty Links Pro — best if you want a simpler, more general link-management system.
3. A product-display/Amazon-specific plugin — better only if your primary requirement is automatically building localized product boxes, prices, images, etc.

If you tell me which multilingual plugin you use (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, or something else), which affiliate network (Amazon, Awin, Impact, CJ, etc.), and whether your product pages are WooCommerce products, I can narrow this down to the best exact setup.

Second choice: Pretty Links

Pretty Links is a solid alternative if you mainly need redirects, link management and tracking rather than affiliate-specific functionality. It is translation-ready, but I would favor ThirstyAffiliates when WPML/Polylang integration is central to the architecture. WordPress.org

prettylinks.com

One important distinction

If by "affiliate plugin" you mean you are an affiliate publishing other companies' products, use something like ThirstyAffiliates.

If you mean you have a WooCommerce store and want other people to become your affiliates, that's a different category. You'd want an affiliate-program plugin such as AffiliateWP instead; ThirstyAffiliates explicitly says it isn't for running an affiliate program for your own store.

If by “affiliate plugin” you mean your WordPress/WooCommerce store has affiliates who link to product pages, and those product pages exist in multiple languages, I’d narrow it down to YITH WooCommerce Affiliates or WC Affiliate.

My pick: YITH WooCommerce Affiliates

YITH’s affiliate plugin currently lists WPML and Loco Translate as supported multilingual plugins, and it is actively maintained for current WordPress/WooCommerce versions. YITH WooCommerce Themes & Plugins

That makes it a safer choice if your setup is something like:

• /product/widget/ → English
• /de/produkt/widget/ → German
• /fr/produit/widget/ → French
• Affiliates need links that point to the appropriate translated product page
• You want affiliate tracking/commissions to work regardless of which language the shopper uses

Another strong option: WC Affiliate

WC Affiliate explicitly says it is compatible with WPML, Polylang, and Loco Translate, and affiliates can create referral links to product pages, category pages, landing pages, or the homepage. WordPress.org

I'd favor this if Polylang is your multilingual system rather than WPML.

What I'd avoid for this particular requirement

AffiliateWP is otherwise an excellent affiliate platform, but WPML currently lists it as only partially compatible, with known issues including the affiliate area not displaying properly on translated pages and its Custom Link Generator working only in the default language. WPML

So I wouldn't make AffiliateWP my first choice for a multilingual store where translated product URLs are central to your affiliate strategy.

One important distinction

If you're asking about an affiliate site that imports products from Amazon/Awin/Impact/etc. and automatically creates translated product pages, that's a somewhat different requirement. In that case, the best plugin depends heavily on your affiliate network and how the product data is imported.

If you tell me (1) WPML or Polylang, (2) WooCommerce or regular WordPress, and (3) which affiliate network(s) you're using, I can tell you which plugin I'd choose and how I'd configure the translated product URLs.

If by “affiliate plugin” you mean a plugin for managing affiliate links on a multilingual WordPress site, my first choice would be ThirstyAffiliates + WPML.

My recommendation

1. ThirstyAffiliates — best overall for your use case

ThirstyAffiliates is specifically built for managing affiliate links, tracking clicks, organizing links, and inserting them into content. Importantly for your situation, it has explicit WPML and Polylang support. WordPress.org

It also supports international affiliate workflows, including geolocation redirects and international Amazon storefronts. ThirstyAffiliates ThirstyAffiliates

2. WPML — use it for the translated product pages

If your site is WooCommerce-based, WPML's WooCommerce Multilingual component can create/manage translated versions of products, variations, categories, attributes, etc. WPML

So a solid setup is:

WordPress + WooCommerce + WPML/WCML + ThirstyAffiliates

The important distinction is that WPML handles which product/page the visitor sees in their language, while ThirstyAffiliates handles the affiliate URL and tracking.

One important consideration

If you have something like:

• English product → Amazon US
• German product → Amazon Germany
• French product → Amazon France

then I would not simply put the same affiliate URL into every translation.

You want the affiliate destination to change by language/market. ThirstyAffiliates has international/geolocation functionality that can help with this, but the exact configuration depends on whether you're using Amazon, Awin, Impact, ShareASale, individual merchants, etc. ThirstyAffiliates ThirstyAffiliates

What about Pretty Links?

Pretty Links is also a good general-purpose affiliate/link-management plugin, but for a site where affiliate marketing is a major component, I'd lean toward ThirstyAffiliates. Both are established WordPress plugins; ThirstyAffiliates specifically documents WPML and Polylang support. WordPress.org WordPress.org

What I'd choose

If you tell me which translation plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, etc.), and whether your affiliate products are Amazon/Walmart/Impact/Awin/etc., I can tell you the exact plugin combination I'd use and how I'd structure the translated affiliate links.

If you mean an affiliate-link plugin for a multilingual WordPress site where each language has its own translated product URL, I’d narrow it to two choices:

My pick: ThirstyAffiliates + WPML

ThirstyAffiliates is probably the safest choice if you're primarily an affiliate publisher rather than running an affiliate program for your own WooCommerce store.

• It explicitly supports WPML and Polylang. wordpress.orgthirstyaffiliates.com
• You can manage affiliate destinations centrally rather than putting raw affiliate URLs throughout your articles.
• Its paid plans include WPML/Polylang integration, automatic keyword linking, link tracking, geolocation redirects, and other useful affiliate features. wordpress.orgthirstyaffiliates.com
• This is particularly useful if your English product page points to one destination while the French/German/etc. version needs a different localized destination.

Important caveat: WPML's own compatibility page currently describes AffiliateWP as only partially compatible and lists issues with translated pages, so I wouldn't choose AffiliateWP specifically for this use case. wpml.org

If you actually run the affiliate program: Affiliate for WooCommerce

If you're selling your own WooCommerce products and recruiting affiliates, I'd choose Affiliate for WooCommerce instead.

It has documented compatibility with WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency, including tracking referrals/commissions across currencies. woocommerce.com

For the multilingual product catalog itself, WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce handles translated products, variations, categories, and store pages. wpml.org

One newer option worth considering

WC Affiliate is interesting if you want an all-in-one WooCommerce affiliate program. Its current WordPress listing says it is compatible with WPML, Loco Translate and Polylang, and recent releases specifically addressed non-English characters in generated affiliate URLs. wordpress.org

What I'd choose

If you tell me whether you're promoting Amazon/other merchants or running your own WooCommerce affiliate program, plus whether you're using WPML, Polylang, or another translation plugin, I can tell you exactly how I'd configure the translated product URLs so affiliates don't get sent to the wrong language.

If you mean a WooCommerce store where the same products have translated URLs/pages—for example:

• English: /product/red-shoes/
• French: /fr/produit/chaussures-rouges/
• German: /de/produkt/rote-schuhe/

then I’d prioritize how the affiliate tracking handles the translated product/page, not merely whether the affiliate plugin itself is translated.

My picks

1. 🥇 Affiliate for WooCommerce — best overall for WPML

woocommerce.com

This would be my first choice if you're already using WPML. WooCommerce explicitly documents compatibility with WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency, including tracking referrals and commissions across multiple currencies. WooCommerce WooCommerce

It's particularly attractive if you need:

• WooCommerce product-level affiliate commissions
• WPML translated products
• Multiple currencies
• Affiliate coupons
• Subscriptions
• A fairly comprehensive affiliate-management system

2. 🥈 SliceWP — best if you want something simpler

slicewp.com

SliceWP is a very good option if your priority is simplicity and a clean affiliate system. It integrates directly with WooCommerce and supports product-specific and variation-specific commission rates. SliceWP SliceWP

It does have an important caveat: its official documentation says WPML compatibility is partial, particularly around certain affiliate URL/link-generator and email functionality. AffiliateWP

So I'd choose it over Affiliate for WooCommerce mainly if you don't need the more complicated multilingual behavior.

3. YITH WooCommerce Affiliates — worth considering with WPML

yithemes.com

YITH explicitly lists WPML as a supported multilingual plugin and is designed specifically for WooCommerce. YITH WooCommerce Themes

I'd put it behind Affiliate for WooCommerce unless you're already heavily invested in the YITH ecosystem.

One important distinction

If by "affiliate plugin" you actually mean an affiliate-link management plugin that sends visitors to products on Amazon/Awin/Impact/etc., rather than running your own affiliate program, the recommendation changes substantially.

For example, if you have:

Affiliate link → English product page
Affiliate link → French translated product page
Affiliate link → German translated product page

you need the plugin to preserve the affiliate tracking parameters/cookie when the visitor lands on the translated URL. That's a different requirement from simply translating the affiliate dashboard.

If that's your setup, tell me which translation plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, etc.) and which affiliate network (Amazon, Awin, Impact, CJ, ShareASale, your own program, etc.). I can narrow it down to the best 2–3 options and specifically check whether tracking survives language switching.

If by “affiliate plugin” you mean a plugin that runs your own affiliate program and your WooCommerce product pages exist in multiple languages, I’d narrow it down to these:

My recommendation

1. Affiliate for WooCommerce — best if you're using WPML + WooCommerce

This would be my first choice if your setup is something like:

• WooCommerce
• WPML for translations
• /en/product/widget/
• /de/product/widget/
• /fr/product/widget/
• Affiliates need links that lead to the appropriate translated product page

It has documented compatibility with WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce, including handling commissions when customers purchase in different currencies. WooCommerce

woocommerce.com

2. SliceWP — best simpler alternative

SliceWP has strong WooCommerce support and lets you set commissions at the product level, which is useful if different products have different affiliate rates. WordPress.org SliceWP

slicewp.com

The caveat is that I would test your exact WPML translated-product workflow before committing, rather than assuming that “translation-ready” means affiliate attribution will behave correctly across translated product URLs.

3. AffiliateWP — powerful, but I'd put it behind the two above for this particular requirement

AffiliateWP explicitly documents partial WPML compatibility. Standard and pretty affiliate links work with WPML's non-English languages, but there are some limitations around its Custom Link Generator and multilingual affiliate emails. AffiliateWP

affiliatewp.com

One important distinction

If you mean “I promote Amazon/other merchants and need to insert/manage affiliate links to translated product pages”, that's a different problem. In that case I would look at Pretty Links/ThirstyAffiliates-style link management, rather than an affiliate-program plugin such as AffiliateWP or SliceWP.

If you tell me your translation plugin (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, etc.) + WooCommerce yes/no + whether you're running your own affiliate program or promoting other merchants, I can tell you which plugin I'd choose and how I'd configure the translated product URLs.

If you mean WooCommerce + multilingual product pages + affiliate links that should keep working when the visitor is on a translated product URL, I’d narrow it to these:

My first choice: Affiliate for WooCommerce + WPML

Affiliate for WooCommerce is probably the safest choice for a serious WooCommerce store. Its documentation specifically lists WPML Multilingual and Multicurrency compatibility, including referral/commission tracking across currencies. woocommerce.com

Pair it with WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce. WPML creates separate linked product translations, translates product URLs/slugs, and handles multilingual WooCommerce products. wpml.org

Why I'd pick this setup:

• Affiliate tracking + WooCommerce are tightly integrated.
• WPML understands that each language has its own product translation.
• Good choice if you're selling in multiple currencies.
• Better fit for a store you expect to grow.

If budget is important: WC Affiliate + WPML

WC Affiliate is worth considering. It explicitly says it's compatible with WPML, Loco Translate and Polylang, and affiliates can generate links to product pages, categories and other URLs. Its recent releases also fixed handling of non-English characters in generated affiliate URLs. woocommerce.comwordpress.orgwpml.org

I'd choose this if you want a simpler/lower-cost affiliate system.

One I'd be cautious about: AffiliateWP + WPML

AffiliateWP is excellent as an affiliate platform generally, but WPML currently lists it as partially compatible, with known issues including affiliate-area content not displaying properly on translated pages and the Custom Link Generator working only in the default language. wpml.org

For your specific requirement—translated product pages—that's a significant red flag.

Bottom line

WPML's own compatibility directory says Ultimate Affiliate Pro is compatible with WPML and has been tested for multilingual sites. wpml.org

One important distinction: if you're using affiliate links to external merchants (Amazon, Awin, Impact, ShareASale, etc.) rather than running your own WooCommerce affiliate program, the recommendation changes. In that case, tell me which affiliate network(s) you're using and whether you're using WPML, Polylang, or TranslatePress, and I can recommend the exact setup.

If by “affiliate plugin” you mean a plugin for managing affiliate links on a multilingual WordPress site, my first choice would be ThirstyAffiliates + WPML.

My recommendation

1. ThirstyAffiliates — best overall for your use case

ThirstyAffiliates explicitly supports both WPML and Polylang, including fixes/features specifically related to multilingual links. wordpress.orgthirstyaffiliates.com

Why I like it for translated product pages:

• You manage the affiliate destination centrally rather than scattering raw URLs throughout your content.
• Affiliate links can be reused across English, French, German, etc. product pages.
• It supports link categorization, tracking, redirects, automatic keyword linking and geographic redirects on paid plans. wordpress.orgthirstyaffiliates.com
• Its current WordPress plugin listing shows active development and WPML/Polylang support. wordpress.org

2. WPML — pair it with ThirstyAffiliates if your product pages are WooCommerce

WPML is particularly strong if you're actually translating WooCommerce products. Its WooCommerce integration translates products, variations, categories, attributes and other product content. wpml.org

There's also been specific work on making links behave correctly across languages. wpml.org

So the stack I'd use is:

WooCommerce → WPML/WCML → ThirstyAffiliates

What if you're using Polylang?

That's also a good combination:

WooCommerce → Polylang for WooCommerce → ThirstyAffiliates

Polylang supports translated WooCommerce products and synchronizes things such as stock and prices between product translations. polylang.pro

One important distinction

If you're asking for a plugin that runs your own affiliate program—i.e. other people become affiliates and promote your products—that's a different requirement. ThirstyAffiliates is for you managing affiliate links to other merchants, not for running an affiliate program on your store. wordpress.org

If you tell me whether you're using WooCommerce + WPML, WooCommerce + Polylang, or something like Amazon affiliate product pages, I can recommend the exact plugin/stack and explain how I'd structure the links so that English product → English affiliate URL, French product → French/appropriate affiliate URL, etc.

If you mean an affiliate site where product pages exist in multiple languages (for example English product page → French/German/Spanish versions with affiliate links preserved), I would choose based on how your affiliate content is structured:

Best overall choice: WPML + your affiliate plugin

For a serious multilingual affiliate site, WPML is usually the safest choice because it handles separate translated posts/pages, custom fields, taxonomies, and complex plugin integrations well. That matters because affiliate plugins often store data in custom fields (merchant IDs, product URLs, prices, tracking parameters, comparison tables, etc.). oddjar.com

Good pairings:

• WPML + WooCommerce (if you import products or use WooCommerce as your catalog)
• WPML + AAWP (Amazon affiliate sites)
• WPML + Content Egg (multi-merchant affiliate sites)
• WPML + AffiliateWP (if you run your own affiliate program)

Pros:

• Separate SEO-friendly URLs per language
• Better control over translated product metadata
• Handles custom post types and fields better than many alternatives
• Better for large catalogs

Cons:

• More setup complexity
• Paid license

oddjar.comtouchestudio.com

Best lightweight option: Polylang

Choose this if your affiliate pages are mostly:

• reviews
• buying guides
• comparison articles
• manually created product pages

It is lighter and gives you more manual control, but complex affiliate data synchronization can require more work. WooCommerce support requires additional tooling. touchestudio.com

Best for quick translation workflow: TranslatePress

Good if:

• you already have product pages
• you want to visually translate them from the front end
• your affiliate links are simple

Less ideal if you have thousands of products because managing many translated product records can become tedious. oddjar.comtouchestudio.com

Affiliate plugin choice matters too

My recommendations by affiliate model:

Things to verify before choosing

A multilingual affiliate setup often breaks in these areas:

1. Affiliate URLs
   • Do translated pages keep the correct tracking IDs?
   • Are links accidentally translated or removed?

2. Custom fields
   • Does the translation plugin copy/sync product IDs, prices, buttons, images?

3. SEO
   • Are translated pages indexed separately?
   • Are hreflang tags generated correctly?

4. Product feeds
   • If you import products automatically, can the importer update every language version?

My default recommendation:

• Small affiliate blog (under ~500 pages): Polylang or TranslatePress
• Growing affiliate site with hundreds/thousands of products: WPML
• Serious international affiliate business: WPML + a product data plugin built around custom fields

If you tell me which affiliate plugin you are using now (AAWP, Content Egg, WooCommerce, AffiliateWP, etc.) and how many languages/products you expect, I can narrow it down.

If you mean a WordPress affiliate site where product pages exist in multiple languages and the affiliate links/products must stay connected, I would usually choose based on your translation workflow rather than the affiliate plugin alone.

Best overall choice: WPML + your affiliate plugin

For a serious multilingual affiliate site, my default pick is:

• WPML for translations
• Your affiliate/product plugin (depending on your setup)
• WooCommerce only if you are actually selling products

WPML is usually the safest choice when you have:

• translated product pages
• custom post types (affiliate products, reviews, comparison tables)
• custom fields (ASIN, affiliate URL, price, specs)
• SEO requirements (hreflang, translated URLs)
• many products/languages

It has stronger compatibility with complex WordPress setups than lighter translation plugins. oddjar.com

Good alternatives

1. TranslatePress — easiest editing

Choose this if:

• you want to visually edit translations on the page
• your affiliate pages are mostly content/reviews
• you have fewer products

Pros:

• very easy workflow
• good for landing pages and review sites

Cons:

• less ideal if you have thousands of affiliate product entries with structured data. oddjar.com

2. Polylang — budget option

Choose this if:

• you manually translate
• your site is smaller
• you want lighter infrastructure

For WooCommerce/product-heavy sites, you generally need the paid WooCommerce integration. semtak.pl

3. Weglot — fastest launch

Choose this if:

• you need automatic translation quickly
• you don't want to manage translations in WordPress

The downside is that large affiliate catalogs can become expensive because pricing is tied to translated content volume. oddjar.com

Affiliate plugins that pair well

Your choice depends on how you manage products:

If you import products from Amazon

Look at:

• AAWP
• Content Egg

You need to verify that your translation plugin handles their shortcodes/custom fields correctly.

If you create your own product database

A better architecture is often:

• Custom Post Type: Products
• Custom Fields: price, merchant, affiliate URL, SKU, images
• WPML translating the product entries

This avoids duplicated affiliate data problems.

My recommendation by site size

A key question: Are your “product pages” WooCommerce products, Amazon affiliate pages, or custom review/comparison pages? The best stack changes quite a bit depending on that.

If you mean WooCommerce + translated product pages (e.g. English product → Spanish/French/German versions), I’d narrow it to these:

My top choice: Affiliate for WooCommerce

Affiliate for WooCommerce is probably the best fit if your priority is reliable WooCommerce integration plus multilingual/multicurrency support.

• Official WooCommerce extension.
• Explicitly supports WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency and can track referrals/commissions across multiple currencies. woocommerce.com
• Good choice if your translated products are separate WPML language versions of the same WooCommerce products.
• Better long-term fit if you're building a serious affiliate program rather than just adding basic referral links.

Strong alternative: YITH WooCommerce Affiliates

YITH WooCommerce Affiliates is particularly attractive if you're already using YITH.

YITH explicitly lists WPML compatibility and says the plugin is translation-ready. yithemes.com The current version also supports current WooCommerce/WordPress versions. en-gb.wordpress.org

What I'd avoid choosing solely because it says "multilingual"

PW WooCommerce Affiliates and similar plugins can translate their interface, but that's different from correctly handling translated WooCommerce product URLs/products and affiliate attribution. PW, for example, advertises translations into several languages, but that doesn't by itself establish WPML product-page behavior. wordpress.org

One important distinction

If your setup is:

/product/widget/ → English
/es/product/widget/ → Spanish
/de/product/widget/ → German

then you want the affiliate plugin to preserve the affiliate/referral attribution when the visitor lands on any translated version, while the commission is ultimately attached to the WooCommerce order/product.

I'd therefore choose Affiliate for WooCommerce + WPML as the default stack.

If you tell me which translation plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, etc.) and whether your affiliate links are Amazon/external products or your own WooCommerce products, I can tell you the best plugin specifically for that setup.

If by “affiliate plugin” you mean you publish affiliate links to products on translated WordPress/WooCommerce pages—rather than running your own affiliate program—my first choice would be ThirstyAffiliates + WPML.

My picks

1. ThirstyAffiliates — my recommendation

ThirstyAffiliates

It specifically supports WPML and Polylang, including compatibility for links inserted into Gutenberg content. Its current Pro plan explicitly includes WPML/Polylang integration. wordpress.org

This is particularly useful if you have something like:

• English product page → /en/product/coffee-maker/
• German product page → /de/produkt/kaffeemaschine/
• French product page → /fr/produit/cafetiere/

and want your affiliate links to behave correctly within those translated versions.

2. Pretty Links — good alternative

Pretty Links

It's excellent for centralized affiliate-link management, redirects and click tracking, and is actively maintained. However, for your specific requirement—translated product pages—I would favor ThirstyAffiliates because its WPML/Polylang integration is explicitly documented. wordpress.org

The important part: your multilingual plugin

If you're using WooCommerce + WPML, that's a strong combination. WPML treats translated products as separate language-linked products and handles their product data, categories, variations, etc. wpml.org

So I'd build it as:

WooCommerce + WPML/WCML + ThirstyAffiliates

rather than trying to make an affiliate plugin itself handle the translations.

One caveat: if your affiliate URLs need to be different by language/market—for example, Amazon US for English, Amazon Germany for German, Amazon France for French—that's a slightly different requirement. You'd want a plugin/setup that can route the same product recommendation to different affiliate destinations depending on language or visitor location.

Also, don't confuse this with AffiliateWP or Affiliate for WooCommerce. Those are primarily for running an affiliate program where other people promote your products. AffiliateWP currently has only partial WPML compatibility and some documented multilingual limitations. wpml.org

If you tell me which multilingual plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, etc.) and whether you're promoting Amazon/other merchants or running your own affiliate program, I can narrow it down to the best exact setup.

If your requirement is specifically “affiliate links on multilingual WordPress/WooCommerce sites, with translated product pages”, I’d choose ThirstyAffiliates Pro + WPML.

My recommendation

1. ThirstyAffiliates Pro — best overall

• Has explicit WPML and Polylang integration. thirstyaffiliates.comwpml.org
• Lets you manage affiliate destinations centrally, so you can change an affiliate URL once rather than hunting through translated pages.
• Pro adds useful features for international affiliate sites, including geolocation redirects, automatic keyword linking, link health checking, and reporting. thirstyaffiliates.com
• Particularly good if you have lots of products/articles and multiple languages.

ThirstyAffiliates

2. WPML + WooCommerce Multilingual — use this for the product translations
WPML handles the actual translated WooCommerce products/product pages. Its current WooCommerce tooling specifically supports translating products and handling links across languages. wpml.org

WPML

The important distinction

Don't look for an “affiliate plugin that translates product pages.” I'd structure it as:

WooCommerce → WPML/WCML → translated product pages
ThirstyAffiliates → affiliate URLs, tracking, redirects

For example:

• /en/product/sony-headphones/
• /de/produkt/sony-kopfhoerer/
• /fr/produit/casque-sony/

You can have the appropriate affiliate link on each translated page while keeping your affiliate-link management centralized.

What about Pretty Links?

Pretty Links is an excellent alternative for straightforward link management and has a much larger WordPress install base (200,000+ active installations currently). wordpress.org

Pretty Links

But for a multilingual affiliate site, I'd lean ThirstyAffiliates because its WPML/Polylang support is explicitly documented rather than relying primarily on generic redirect/link functionality.

Bottom line:
👉 WPML + WooCommerce Multilingual + ThirstyAffiliates Pro is the combination I'd pick if multilingual translated product pages are central to your site.

If you tell me whether you're using WooCommerce, WPML or Polylang, and which affiliate network(s) (Amazon, Awin, Impact, ShareASale, etc.), I can narrow this down to the best setup and explain exactly how I'd configure the translated affiliate links.

For a multilingual WordPress affiliate site with translated product pages, I would choose based on how your affiliate links/products are structured. The translation plugin matters as much as the affiliate plugin because you need translated pages, URLs, metadata, and product data to stay connected. www.simplepotranslate.comjetpack.com

My shortlist:

For the affiliate plugin itself, these are common pairings:

1. Amazon affiliate sites

Use:

• AAWP (Amazon Associates) + WPML/Polylang

Good for:

• product boxes
• comparison tables
• bestseller lists
• localized Amazon links

Important: make sure your translated pages generate the correct affiliate tracking links for each country store (Amazon US, UK, DE, etc.).

2. WooCommerce affiliate stores

Use:

• WooCommerce + an affiliate management plugin + WPML

Better if you are:

• importing products
• creating your own product database
• mixing affiliate and non-affiliate products

3. Multi-merchant product comparison sites

Look at:

• custom post types + Advanced Custom Fields + WPML/Polylang

This is often more scalable than relying on a single affiliate plugin.

My default recommendation:

For a serious multilingual affiliate business:
➡️ WPML + AAWP (Amazon) or WPML + your affiliate product plugin

For a smaller affiliate blog:
➡️ Polylang Pro + AAWP or TranslatePress + affiliate plugin

Before choosing, check these four things:

1. Does it translate custom fields where affiliate URLs, prices, SKUs, and buttons are stored?
2. Does it preserve hreflang and SEO-friendly language URLs?
3. Can each language have its own affiliate link? (important for international commissions)
4. Does it work with your page builder (Elementor, Gutenberg, Divi, etc.)?

If you tell me:

• affiliate network (Amazon, Impact, CJ, ShareASale, AliExpress, etc.)
• number of languages
• WooCommerce or content-only site
• approximate number of products/pages

…I can narrow it to a specific stack.

If you mean a WordPress/WooCommerce site where the same product has separate translated pages, I’d choose based on how the affiliate links are supposed to work:

My pick: WPML + AffiliateWP

For a serious multilingual WooCommerce store, WPML + AffiliateWP is probably the strongest combination.

• WPML + WooCommerce Multilingual handles translated product pages, variations, categories, URLs, and multilingual SEO. wpml.org
• AffiliateWP can track affiliate links on non-English WPML pages, including standard and pretty affiliate links. affiliatewp.com
• The important caveat: AffiliateWP's WPML integration is only partially compatible. WPML specifically lists issues with the Affiliate Area on translated pages and the Custom Link Generator. wpml.org

So I'd use this if your priority is a real affiliate program with affiliates, commissions, payouts, referral tracking, etc., and you're willing to test the multilingual edge cases.

If your main goal is affiliate links to translated products

If you're essentially doing affiliate marketing for external products—e.g. Amazon/product links, merchant links, comparison pages—rather than running an affiliate program for other people, I'd look at Pretty Links instead. It gives you centralized affiliate-link management, tracking and cloaking, while your multilingual plugin handles the translated product pages. wordpress.org

In that setup:

WooCommerce + WPML → translated products
Pretty Links → affiliate URLs/tracking

That's generally simpler than trying to make the affiliate plugin understand every translated product object.

What I'd avoid

I wouldn't choose an affiliate plugin solely because its admin interface is translated. That's different from being able to correctly associate:

/product/blue-shoes/
/fr/produit/chaussures-bleues/
/de/produkt/blaue-schuhe/

with the same underlying affiliate/product relationship.

For example, PW WooCommerce Affiliates advertises translations for several languages, but that doesn't by itself establish robust multilingual WooCommerce product/affiliate handling. wordpress.org

Quick recommendation

If you tell me whether you're (1) running an affiliate program for other affiliates, or (2) using affiliate links yourself, plus whether you're using WooCommerce + WPML/Polylang/TranslatePress, I can narrow it down to the best 2–3 plugins and explain exactly how the translated product URLs should be handled.

For a multilingual WordPress affiliate site with translated product pages, I would usually choose based on how complex your catalog and workflow are:

Best overall choice: WPML + your affiliate plugin

WPML official site

Pick this if you have:

• Hundreds/thousands of affiliate product pages
• Multiple languages
• SEO traffic from different countries
• Custom post types, ACF fields, product tables, comparison pages, etc.
• A need to keep translated versions linked correctly

WPML is generally the safest option for complex affiliate sites because it has broad compatibility with WordPress themes/plugins and can handle translated content structures, taxonomies, and custom fields. wpml.org

A typical stack:

• WPML → translations
• Affiliate plugin → links/tracking
• SEO plugin → multilingual SEO
• Caching/CDN → performance

Best lightweight option: Polylang

Polylang official site

Choose Polylang if:

• You manually create translations
• Your site is mostly reviews, guides, and affiliate articles
• You want less database overhead
• You don't need complicated translation workflows

Polylang supports multilingual WooCommerce/product-related content through its WooCommerce integration, which can work well for affiliate catalogs depending on your setup. polylang.pro

Best for easy visual translation: TranslatePress

Choose this if:

• You want to translate pages visually from the frontend
• You have fewer products
• Non-technical editors will manage translations

It is easier for marketers, but for very large affiliate catalogs I would usually lean WPML. translatexyz.com

Affiliate plugins that pair well

Your affiliate plugin matters less than the translation layer. Look for one that stores links/data in WordPress fields rather than hard-coded HTML.

Common setups:

Amazon affiliate sites

• AAWP
• WPML + AAWP is a common combination for multilingual Amazon sites

Product comparison/review sites

• AffiliateWP (more for running your own affiliate program)
• Pretty Links (link management/cloaking)
• ThirstyAffiliates

My recommendation by scenario

One important detail: if your “product pages” are real WordPress products (WooCommerce) or affiliate review posts linking out to merchants, the best choice changes.

What type of affiliate site are you building: Amazon/product feeds, WooCommerce store, or review/comparison blog pages?

If you mean a WordPress site that publishes affiliate product pages in multiple languages—for example:

• /en/best-running-shoes/
• /fr/meilleures-chaussures-running/
• /de/beste-laufschuhe/

—and each translated page needs to send visitors through the correct affiliate product URL, I’d choose WPML + ThirstyAffiliates.

My recommendation

1. WPML + WooCommerce Multilingual — for the translated product pages
WPML supports translating WooCommerce products, including external products, and can translate product URLs/slugs. wordpress.org

2. ThirstyAffiliates — for the affiliate links
It is specifically designed for affiliate marketers, gives you centralized affiliate-link management and click tracking, and importantly has explicit WPML and Polylang support. Its changelog also documents fixes/improvements for WPML and Gutenberg. wordpress.org

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Why I'd pick this combination

The important distinction is that your translation plugin and your affiliate-link plugin have different jobs:

ThirstyAffiliates Pro also has geolocation functionality, which can be useful if, for example, your English page needs Amazon US while the German visitor should go to Amazon Germany. wordpress.org

One alternative worth considering

Pretty Links is also a very good affiliate-link manager, particularly if you want a more general-purpose branded URL/redirect system. It has 200,000+ active installations and supports tracking, redirects, geographic targeting and translations. wordpress.org

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But for a multilingual affiliate-content site, I'd lean ThirstyAffiliates, because its documentation/changelog explicitly addresses WPML/Polylang compatibility rather than merely being translation-ready. wordpress.org

One caveat: if by "affiliate plugin" you mean you're running your own affiliate program (other people promote your WooCommerce products), rather than you being an affiliate publishing product reviews, that's a different choice. In that case I'd recommend a different plugin architecture.

If you tell me whether you're (A) an affiliate publisher or (B) running an affiliate program for your own store, I can narrow it down to the best 2–3 options.

If by “affiliate plugin” you mean a plugin that manages affiliate links/commissions and needs those affiliate links to work correctly on translated product pages, I’d choose based on your setup:

My recommendation

Best overall: WPML + an affiliate plugin that explicitly supports WPML.

WPML is a strong choice when you have a WooCommerce catalog where each product has language-specific versions. The important part is that your affiliate system should understand the relationship between the original product and its translations—not merely translate the affiliate dashboard UI.

Good alternative: Polylang Pro + a compatible affiliate plugin. Polylang supports translated WooCommerce products, including synchronized stock/pricing across translations, and has good multilingual SEO support. polylang.pro

One affiliate plugin worth looking at is WC Affiliate. Its current listing specifically says it is translation-ready and compatible with WPML and Polylang, although I'd still test the actual affiliate-link behavior with translated products before committing. wordpress.org

The feature I would prioritize

Suppose you have:

• /product/iphone-15/ → English
• /es/producto/iphone-15/ → Spanish
• /fr/produit/iphone-15/ → French

You want an affiliate link such as:

?ref=123

to preserve the affiliate attribution when the visitor lands on any language version, while the destination product automatically corresponds to the visitor's language.

That's more important than simply having an affiliate plugin whose dashboard can be translated.

One important distinction

If you're not running your own affiliate program, but instead you're building an affiliate site that sends visitors to Amazon, Booking.com, Impact merchants, etc., then you probably don't want an affiliate-management plugin at all. You need a multilingual link-management/affiliate-link solution that maps each product to the appropriate localized merchant URL.

If you tell me which affiliate network(s) you're using (Amazon Associates, Awin, Impact, ShareASale, CJ, direct merchant links, etc.) and whether you're using WooCommerce + WPML/Polylang, I can recommend the specific plugin combination and check that it handles translated product URLs correctly.

If by “affiliate plugin” you mean a plugin for managing affiliate links on a multilingual WordPress site, my first choice would be ThirstyAffiliates.

My recommendation

1. ThirstyAffiliates — best fit for your use case

It explicitly supports both WPML and Polylang, including integration with multilingual content. Its current paid plans list WPML/Polylang integration, and the plugin has had specific fixes for WPML and Polylang support. thirstyaffiliates.com

ThirstyAffiliates official site

This is particularly useful if you have something like:

• /en/product/widget/
• /fr/produit/widget/
• /de/produkt/widget/

and want your affiliate links to behave correctly within those translated versions.

2. Pretty Links — excellent alternative

Pretty Links official site

Pretty Links is very good if your main priority is centralized affiliate-link management, tracking, redirects, keyword auto-linking, and branded URLs. It supports multilingual translation of its interface, but I would choose ThirstyAffiliates if WPML/Polylang integration with translated content is the deciding factor. prettylinks.com

One important distinction

If you're talking about running your own affiliate program—where other people become affiliates and promote your WooCommerce products—that's a different category. In that case I'd look at AffiliateWP or similar rather than ThirstyAffiliates. AffiliateWP, for example, has a multilingual Affiliate Portal compatible with WPML. affiliatewp.com

What I'd choose

If you tell me whether you're using WPML, Polylang, or another translation plugin—and whether the affiliate destination is Amazon, Awin, Impact, ShareASale, etc.—I can recommend the exact setup and explain how I'd structure the translated product links.

If your goal is translated product pages where each language has its own affiliate links, I'd choose based on your multilingual plugin rather than the affiliate plugin.

Here's what I'd recommend:

My top recommendation

ThirstyAffiliates Pro is the one I'd pick.

It offers:

• WPML integration
• Polylang integration
• Separate affiliate links per language
• Amazon-friendly uncloaking
• Link categories
• Click tracking
• Product displays
• CSV import/export
• Geo redirects (if needed) thirstyaffiliates.com

For example:

English page
/product/iphone-16/
→ Amazon US affiliate link

French page
/fr/produit/iphone-16/
→ Amazon FR affiliate link

German page
/de/produkt/iphone-16/
→ Amazon DE affiliate link

Each translation can point to the correct regional merchant instead of sharing one destination.

If you're building an affiliate review site

A stack I recommend is:

• WPML (best compatibility for complex multilingual sites) translatexyz.com
• ThirstyAffiliates Pro
• ACF Pro (if you have product specifications)
• Rank Math or Yoast SEO

This combination scales well to hundreds or thousands of translated product pages.

If you have WooCommerce products

If the "products" are actual WooCommerce products that you translate into multiple languages, the above setup still works. Each translated WooCommerce product can have its own affiliate destination URL, which is especially useful if you're linking to different country-specific stores.

If you tell me:

• which translation plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, or TranslatePress), and
• whether these are WooCommerce products or affiliate review pages,

I can recommend the most reliable configuration for that specific setup.

If your site is multilingual and your affiliate links need to work correctly on translated product pages, the most important feature is language-aware URL management. Many affiliate plugins work on a single-language site but become difficult to manage when using translation plugins like WPML or Polylang.

Here are the strongest options:

If you're using WPML

I would recommend:

1. ThirstyAffiliates if you're managing hundreds or thousands of affiliate links.
2. Pretty Links if you mainly want clean URLs and straightforward link management.

Both allow translated pages to reference the same underlying affiliate link, or different affiliate destinations for each language if needed.

If each language has different affiliate programs

For example:

• English → Amazon.com
• German → Amazon.de
• French → Amazon.fr

You'll want a plugin that lets you assign different URLs per translated page or integrates cleanly with your translation workflow. Pretty Links and ThirstyAffiliates can both support this, though the implementation differs.

If your products themselves are translated

Suppose you have:

• /en/product/widget
• /fr/produit/widget
• /de/produkt/widget

The ideal setup is:

• each translated product page has its own translated content,
• affiliate buttons point to the appropriate merchant for that language,
• the affiliate plugin manages the redirects centrally so you don't have to edit every page when a merchant URL changes.

This scales much better than hardcoding affiliate links into translated content.

My recommendation

For most multilingual affiliate sites:

• Best overall: ThirstyAffiliates
• Best value: Pretty Links
• Best for comparison/product review sites: Lasso

If you tell me:

• which multilingual plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, etc.),
• which page builder (Elementor, Gutenberg, Bricks, Divi),
• and whether you're promoting Amazon, multiple merchants, or your own products,

I can recommend the setup that's likely to require the least maintenance.

If your site is multilingual and each language has its own translated product page (using WPML, Polylang, or TranslatePress), the most important requirement is that the affiliate plugin can either:

• Attach affiliate URLs per translated page, or
• Work with translated custom fields so each language can have its own affiliate links if needed.

Here are the strongest options:

My top recommendations

1. Lasso (Best overall)

Choose this if you promote products from multiple affiliate programs.

Pros:

• Works well with multilingual WordPress.
• Product displays can be inserted on translated pages.
• Centralized affiliate link management.
• Easy link updates.
• Great comparison tables.

Cons:

• Premium pricing.

2. ThirstyAffiliates

One of the most reliable choices for multilingual sites.

Advantages:

• Affiliate links stored separately from content.
• Compatible with WPML and Polylang.
• Link cloaking.
• Automatic keyword linking.
• Categories and reporting.

Very stable for large sites.

3. AAWP (Amazon only)

If you're building an Amazon affiliate site, it's still one of the best options.

It supports:

• Different Amazon locales (.com, .co.uk, .de, .fr, etc.)
• Translated product pages
• Country-specific affiliate IDs
• WPML compatibility

If you use WPML

The ideal setup is:

• WPML
• Lasso or ThirstyAffiliates
• One translated product page per language
• Affiliate links translated where necessary

This allows:

English:

example.com/en/best-laptop/

Spanish:

example.com/es/mejor-portatil/

German:

example.com/de/bester-laptop/

Each page can use:

• Different button text
• Different product descriptions
• Different affiliate URLs (if programs vary by country)

If you use Polylang

Both Lasso and ThirstyAffiliates work well. You can either:

• Share the same affiliate links across all languages, or
• Assign different links for each translated page if needed.

Best setup for international affiliate SEO

If your visitors come from different countries, a combination like this works well:

• WPML (translations)
• Lasso (affiliate link management)
• Geo-targeting service such as Geniuslink or Amazon OneLink (redirect visitors to the correct country store)

This lets a visitor from Germany land on the German translation and be sent to Amazon.de, while a U.S. visitor goes to Amazon.com.

My recommendation

If you're starting a new multilingual affiliate site today:

• Best overall: Lasso
• Best value: ThirstyAffiliates
• Best for Amazon-only sites: AAWP
• Best for price comparison and multiple affiliate networks: Content Egg

If you tell me:

1. which translation plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, etc.),
2. which affiliate networks you use (Amazon, Impact, CJ, ShareASale, Awin, etc.), and
3. whether you're using the Block Editor or Elementor,

I can narrow it down to the option that will fit your setup best.

If your site uses translated product pages (for example with WPML or Polylang), the key requirement is that your affiliate plugin can either:

• Store affiliate links independently for each language, or
• Work with translated custom fields without breaking the relationship between translations.

Here are the strongest options:

My top recommendation: ThirstyAffiliates

If you're running a multilingual affiliate site, this is usually the safest choice because:

• Affiliate links are stored as a custom post type.
• WPML and Polylang can translate those links.
• Each language can have its own destination URL when needed.
• Existing links don't break when translating posts.
• It scales well to thousands of links.

This is especially useful if different countries require different affiliate programs (for example, US visitors go to Amazon.com while German visitors go to Amazon.de).

If you're using WooCommerce

If translated products are actual WooCommerce products:

• Translate the products with WPML or Polylang.
• Assign the affiliate URL on each translated product.
• The translated product automatically uses the correct affiliate link.

This is cleaner than trying to dynamically swap URLs.

If you're using custom product pages

If each language has its own WordPress page:

• Store affiliate links as translatable custom fields.
• Or use translated ThirstyAffiliates links.
• Insert links using shortcodes or Gutenberg blocks so each language outputs the proper destination.

If SEO matters

For international affiliate SEO, you'll usually want:

• Separate URLs per language (/en/, /fr/, /de/, etc.)
• Native-language product descriptions
• Language-specific affiliate merchants when possible
• Correct hreflang implementation from your multilingual plugin

This setup tends to perform better than sharing the same affiliate URL across all languages.

My preferred stack

If I were building a multilingual affiliate site today, I'd choose:

• WPML
• ThirstyAffiliates
• WooCommerce (if products are involved)

That combination is mature, well-supported, and flexible enough for most multilingual affiliate websites.

If you tell me:

• which translation plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, or another),
• whether you're using WooCommerce or regular pages,
• and whether you're promoting Amazon, AliExpress, or another affiliate network,

I can recommend the setup that's likely to work best for your specific site.

If your site uses translated product pages (rather than automatic machine translation of the same URL), the main thing you need is an affiliate plugin that stores affiliate URLs per language or integrates well with your multilingual plugin.

Here are the strongest options:

My top recommendation: Lasso

If you're building a multilingual affiliate site, Lasso is probably the easiest long-term choice because:

• every translated page can have its own affiliate links
• works well with WPML and Polylang
• easy link replacement
• product displays and comparison tables
• broken link monitoring
• Amazon support plus virtually any affiliate program

Example:

English page

/best-vpn/

French page

/fr/meilleur-vpn/

Spanish page

/es/mejor-vpn/

Each page can point to a completely different affiliate URL:

• US Amazon
• Amazon France
• Amazon Spain

without affecting the other languages.

If you're using WPML

WPML translates posts independently.

That means:

English Product

Affiliate URL:
https://amazon.com/...

French Product

Affiliate URL:
https://amazon.fr/...

German Product

Affiliate URL:
https://amazon.de/...

This is the ideal setup because commissions go to the correct regional program.

If you're using Polylang

Polylang also keeps translated posts separate, so plugins like:

• ThirstyAffiliates
• Pretty Links
• Lasso

work well because each translated post can use different affiliate links.

If you're using WooCommerce products

If these are actual WooCommerce products rather than blog reviews, consider combining:

• WooCommerce
• WPML or Polylang
• a link manager like Lasso or ThirstyAffiliates

Each translated WooCommerce product can have its own affiliate destination.

If you have thousands of products

I'd choose:

1. WPML
2. Lasso
3. Automatic tables/comparison boxes
4. Regional affiliate links (Amazon US/UK/DE/FR/JP, etc.)

That combination scales well for large multilingual affiliate sites.

Which would I choose?

• Best overall: Lasso
• Best free/low cost: Pretty Links
• Best for Amazon-only sites: AAWP
• Best if you mainly want affiliate link management: ThirstyAffiliates Pro

If you tell me:

1. which multilingual plugin you're using (WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, or Weglot),
2. whether your products are WooCommerce products or regular WordPress pages/posts, and
3. which affiliate network(s) you use (Amazon, Impact, CJ, ShareASale, etc.),

I can recommend the setup that will require the least manual work.