Multisite Language Switcher (original) (raw)
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! 🙂
Translators
Thanks to all the translators for their great work.
- German (de_DE) – Dennis Ploetner
- Italian (it_IT) – Antonella Cucinelli
- Dutch (nl_NL) – Alexandra Kleijn
- Brazillian Portuguese (pt_BR) – Coolweb
- Spanish (es_ES) – Andreas Breitschopp
- French (fr_FR) – Andreas Breitschopp
- Russian (ru_RU) – Andrey Vystavkin
- Ukrainian (uk) – Victor Melnichenko
- Croatian (hr_HR) – Brankec69
- Romanian (ro_RO) – Armand K
- Polish (pl_PL) – Kamil Frejlich
- Lithuanian (lt_LT) – Ovidijus Pukys
- Catalan (ca_ES) – Joan López
- Czech (cs_CZ) – Rastr
- Hungarian (hu_HU) – RobiG
- Georgian (ka_GE) – Jas Saran
- Greek (el) – Christoforos Aivazidis
- Serbian (sr_RS) – Web Hosting Hub
- Turkish (tr) – Alican Cakil
- Armenian (hy_AM) – Yeghishe Nersisyan
- Bengali (bn_BD) – Md. Nazmul Huda
- Japanese (ja) – ThemeBoy
- Swedish (sv_SE) – Erik Bernskiold
- Traditional & Simplified Chinese (zh_CN & zh_TW) – DrBenson
- Arabic (ar) – Mohamed Elwan
- Norwegian (nb_NO) – Ibrahim Qraiqe
- Bulgarian (bg_BG) – Vencislav Raev
- Mexican Spanish (es_MX) – Fernando Mata
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.
This plugin provides 1 block.
Multisite Language Switcher Review the settings for the Multisite Language Switcher plugin, as the block utilizes the API function `the_msls()` for its output.
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->EditorPage->Edit - Connect your translated categories and tags in
Posts->CategoriesorPost->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.
I have no language options in the General settings.
You might read first WordPress in your language.
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.
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 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.
Please check the add-on MslsMenu out.
I want to have the languages in an HTML select. How can I do that?
Please check the add-on MslsSelect out.
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(); <span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>l</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>n</mi><mi>g</mi><mi>u</mi><mi>a</mi><mi>g</mi><mi>e</mi><mo>=</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">language = </annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8889em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.01968em;">l</span><span class="mord mathnormal">an</span><span class="mord mathnormal">gu</span><span class="mord mathnormal">a</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">g</span><span class="mord mathnormal">e</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span></span></span></span>blog->get_language();
If I have another question, where can I ask?
Please visit the MSLS website or use the WordPress support forum for more information.
At first I had some trouble with the plugin. But now – I wouldn’t want to be without it! I really like the plugin’s functional simplicity! Thanks, Dennis, for this wonderful plugin!
I think we still need to wait some time before WordPress core implementation for Multilingual sites. See WordPress roadmap I’ve tried WPML in the past but did not really like it. Haven’t tried Polylang plugin yet In my opinion the best setup for multilingual sites is a wordpress multisite setup. Then this great Multisite Language Switcher plugin is the way to go. Simply loving it and also top support deserves a 5 * star rating please keep up the good work you’re doing! greetingsBecki
I always use this plugin when creating multi-language multisite wordpress sites. Easy to set up and very useful. Top-rate support too
There is a learning curve and i think someone should make a tutorial how to implement the language switcher and menu and how to work with it. But after all a great plugin.
This is a fantastic plugin: it does exactly what promises to do, it’s not bloated with extra features and it’s been around for a long time. I can’t thank the plugin author enough for developing this plugin, maintaining it for years and having the patience to deal with occasional 1-star reviews from people who can’t be bothered to read the docs.
I’m not keen to write reviews, but in this case I was so overwhelmed of this plugin’s simple features and ease of use that I had to. This is by far THE easiest multisite multilanguage plugin I ever tried. Over the years I tested several multilingual approachs (plugins for standalone WP sites, multisite “premium” plugins, country domains, etc.). But this here exceeds all my expectactions for its simplicity. Multilanguage should not be an option in WordPress, but part of the core, out of the box. This plugin deserves a 10 of 10. Two thumbs way up! Thank you for this peace of art.
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