Multisite Language Switcher Plugin
A simple, powerful and easy-to-use plugin that will help you to manage multilingual content in a multisite WordPress installation.
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.
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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.
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->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.
Screenshots
Plugin configuration
Posts list
Edit post
Widget
FAQ
You might read first WordPress in your language.
You can choose the language of the dashboard in the settings of your user profile.
It’s up to you – of course. But yes, if you want to use the Multisite Language Switcher.
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.
Please check the add-on MslsSelect out.
You could try the plugin Network Shared Media. It adds a new tab to the “Add Media” window, allowing you to access the media files on the other sites in your multisite.
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(); There is a plugin which comes in handy here.
Changelog
This project has a separate Changelog.