September 30, 2022

Polylang – Country Detection Plugin

This plugin detects the preferred language according on the country.

Polylang is a fantastic plugin to make WordPress multilingual. The Polylang extension enables you to detect the preferred language according on the country.

If your website contains 2 different locales with the same language (e.g. de_DE for German/German and de_AT for German/Austria) then Polylang automatically sets the language according to the browser settings.

Austrian website visitors who have set their operating system / browser to Germany (e.g. the Devices was buyed in Germany) will always be redirected to de_DE.

This Plugin detects the preferred language according on the visitors country and will set the language correct to de_AT.

Please notice that the IP API is only for non-commercial use allowed.

Required Plugin

Polylang Pro by WP SYNTEX – Polylang allows you to create a bilingual or multilingual WordPress site.

Installation

Install the required Polylang Plugin available at https://polylang.pro
Upload ‘pll-country-detection’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
Enable the “Detect browser language” option in “Languages > Settings”

FAQ

How does the country detection works?

The plugin detects the country with the IP Geolocation API (https://ip-api.com/).
If no available language by country is found, the language of the browser is preferred. (https://polylang.pro/doc/detect-the-browser-preferred-language/)

I found a bug, what shall I do?

If you have found a bug in my plugin, please send me an email with a short description.
I will fix the bug as soon as possible.

You like my plugin and you’d like to support me?

Thank you very much!
In case you want to show how much you appreciate my work, I’d be very grateful if you could give me positive rating with WordPress-Page and/or donate a small amount to me.

Changelog

1.3.1

Fix – Check if the class Polylang_Country_Detection already exists

1.3.0

Feature – Anonymize the IP addresses from the client
Dev – Changed the geolocation API from ip-api.com to iplocate.io
Dev – Check compatibility with latest Polylang and WordPress Version

1.2.1

Fix – Filter all non active languages

1.2.0

Translation functionality added

1.1.0

Fix – Lanaguage variable return issue

1.0.0

Initial Release
Check compatibility with latest Polylang and WordPress Version