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multisite-language-switcher

plugin

2.10.1 • public • Published 2 months ago

A simple, powerful and easy-to-use plugin that will help you to manage multilingual content in a multisite WordPress installation.

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Description

A simple, powerful, and user-friendly plugin that adds multilingual support to your WordPress multisite installation, whether using multiple subdomains or folders. Multisite Language Switcher allows you to effortlessly manage translations for posts, pages, custom post types, categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.

The plugin uses flag icons from FamFamFam. Thanks to Mark James for his great work. In addition, I would like to thank Jürgen Mayer for creating the plugin's banner.

Please, don't forget to rate this plugin! :-)

Installation

  • Use the WordPress admin to install the plugin from there or
  • Download the plugin and uncompress it with your preferred unzip programme and copy the entire directory in the plugin directory of your WordPress blog (/wp-content/plugins)
  • Activate the plugin in your plugin administration page (by the network administrator on all the blogs or by the blog administrator for each particular blog).
  • You need to activate the plugin once in each blog, by setting the configuration in Settings -> Multisite Language Switcher

Now you can:

  • Connect your translated pages and posts in Posts -> Edit or Page -> Edit
  • Connect your translated categories and tags in Posts -> Categories or Post -> Tags
  • connect your Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies across languages
  • use the widget, the Gutenberg block, the shortcode [sc_msls] and/or a content_filter which displays a hint to the user if a translation is available
  • you can find also a shortcode for the widget [sc_msls_widget]
  • optionally you can place the code <?php if ( function_exists( 'the_msls' ) ) the_msls(); ?> directly in your theme files

Review the Multisite Language Switcher Website for more information.

Frequently Asked Questions

But I'd like the interface to stay in English.

You can choose the language of the dashboard in the settings of your user profile.

Can I call a function to get the language of the page the user is viewing?

Yes, you should use the WordPress API function get_locale() but you could also use code like that

`use lloc\Msls\MslsBlogCollection;

$blog = MslsBlogCollection::instance()->get_current_blog(); $language = $blog->get_language();`

Do I need a multisite?

It's up to you - of course. But yes, if you want to use the Multisite Language Switcher.

How can I add the Multisite Language Switcher to the nav menu of my blog?

Please check the add-on MslsMenu out.

How can I automatically redirect users based on the browser language?

The Multisite Language Switcher does not redirect the users automatically. I'm not sure if the plugin should do that. You might check out this jQuery plugin or this approach with a theme if you need such functionality.

I have no language options in the General settings.

You might read first WordPress in your language.

I want to have the languages in an HTML select. How can I do that?

Please check the add-on MslsSelect out.

If I have another question, where can I ask?

Please visit the MSLS website or use the WordPress support forum for more information.

Screenshots

Plugin configuration with labels

Plugin configuration with labels

Plugin configuration with flag

Plugin configuration with flag

Posts list with label

Posts list with label

Post list with flag

Post list with flag

Edit post with label and select2

Edit post with label and select2

Edit post with flag and dropdown

Edit post with flag and dropdown

Non-styled output of the widget, block and shortcode

Non-styled output of the widget, block and shortcode

Changelog

This project has a separate Changelog.

Translators

Thanks to all the translators for their great work.

You can translate this plugin on translate.wordpress.org, or if you prefer and have created your language pack, or have an update of an existing one, you can send me your Gettext PO and MO so that I can bundle it into the Multisite Language Switcher. You can download the latest POT file from here.