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WPML offers this feature. You can set it in the Languages adminsection, at the option Browser Language Redirect.
Refer to the documentation for more details: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language Skip the first two steps and the backend won’t be translated. 1) Download the Italian version of WordPress. 2) Upload the files located in /wp-content/languages/ to your live site. These files are for translating the Backend. 3) Define the language in wp-config.php as define (‘WPLANG’, ‘it_IT’);. Before … Read more
The naming convention for plugins translation files (.mo and .po files) is pluginname-language_COUNTRY.mo. So, for example, a French translation files of Buddypress will be: buddypress-fr_FR.mo and buddypress-fr_FR.po. After renaming these files, put them in wp-content/languages directory and your translation should work. Note that WP_LANG must be defined with the same language (fr_FR for example) for … Read more
There is a the_title filter. You should be able to wrap the title in a <span> using that. add_filter( ‘the_title’, function($title) { return ‘<span lang=”ur”>’.$title.'</span>’; } ); A version compatible with an older PHP: function lang_attr_wpse_116733($title) { return ‘<span lang=”ur”>’.$title.'</span>’; } add_filter(‘the_title’,’lang_attr_wpse_116733′); If it were me, I’d add a checkbox on the post edit screen … Read more
You need to use the same method qtranslate uses to get the language parameter in the url. Quickly glancing through the source it seems to be qtrans_getLanguage() $url = home_url( qtrans_get_language() ); wp_redirect( esc_url( $url ) );
In most cases you are better with using two different installations or two different sites on a network installation. The only use case for the plugins is when you need almost all of your content to be translated or when you need good control over what was translated and what wasn’t.
If/When you want to have wordpress in your own language you could/should download the swedish version imho. Go and look here for the translated package. Because thats the best way to do. Only having some language files doesn’t do always the trick. Download the package from the link I mentioned, unzip/untar unrar or whatever you … Read more
2 notes regarding your own answer: try to not access on super global variables directly, but using filter_input your code throw a notice if $_GET[‘lang’] is not set So your code can be improved: function toscho_change_language() { return ‘bn_BD’; } if ( filter_input( INPUT_GET, ‘lang’, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING ) === ‘bn’ ) { add_filter( ‘locale’, ‘toscho_change_language’ ); … Read more
You have slight timing issues because you generate title first (in constructor call), but postpone text domain load to later (init at default priority). Text domain mus be loaded for __() to translate correctly. Those are not “lazy”, they generate and return strings right where they are called. Text domain should be loaded very early, … Read more