Simple Language Switcher

September 05, 2013

Simple Language Switcher Plugin

A simple and lightweight plugin that displays a customizable language switcher.

Simple Language Switcher is a simple and lightweight plugin that allows you to display a language switcher on your site.

Features

  • You can easily customize the display of your language switcher (language ISO codes, language names or flags).
  • Interconnect your post in different languages (avoids the user to be redirected to the home page when switching to another language).
  • Current language detection with regex: avoids displaying a link to the same page in the same language.
  • Generates rel=”alternate” hreflang=”x” links for SEO purposes.

You will find full details, instructions and a demo here: http://www.mendoweb.be/blog/wordpress-plugin-simple-language-switcher/

Before you downvote this plugin

  • Understand that this is not an attempt at making a plugin for a complete multilingual solution; you will find better plugins out there for this.
  • It didn’t work for you? You found a bug? Give me a description with some details in the support forum, and I will fix it as soon as I can.
  • For some reason, you didn’t like it? Share me your suggestions in the support forum, and perhaps I will work on it.

Support

Did you enjoy this plugin? Please take a moment to rate and comment, this will keep me motivated to update this plugin for bugfixes and WordPress upgrades.

Installation

  1. Upload the ‘simple-language-switcher’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Configure the plugin in Settings > Simple Language Switcher
  4. Display the language switcher via the Simple Language Switcher Widget or by calling the function simple_language_switcher() in your theme

Changelog

1.1

  • Bugfix

1.0

  • init

Details

  • Version: 1.1
  • Active installations: 300
  • WordPress Version: 3.3
  • Tested up to: 3.5.2

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