You need to use the function pll_the_languages() to get the language switcher. It has a bunch of arguments which you can use to customise the language switcher: $args is an optional array parameter. Options are: ‘dropdown’ => displays a list if set to 0, a dropdown list if set to 1 (default: 0) ‘show_names’ => … Read more
According to Polylangs Function Reference, pll_the_languages Displays a language switcher. And most probably it uses some additional CSS/JS to work. If you want to get the list of languages and display them with your custom code, then you can use this function instead: pll_languages_list($args); and it will return the list of languages. $args is an … Read more
Yes it is possible. For a more comprehensive answer, see: https://polylang.pro/doc/define-your-home-page-as-a-static-page/
The main language of a post should be saved in a post meta field. There is no way to detect that automatically. Even Google’s heuristics fail regularly with that. So add a custom field lang and check with … $language = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), ‘lang’, TRUE ); … what language the post was written in. Update … Read more
Apparently Polylang has an undocumented pll_save_post API method. See here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/programmatically-set-post-language-and-translations
There is actually a plugin that offers this exact functionality: Polylang User Manager: Polylang User Manager will work with Polylang WordPress multilingual Plugin, it will allow you to restrict access for editors/shop_manager or other user role based on languages they’re not assigned as Translators or editor.
My suggestions: Check language of the wordpress settings, it must be Dutch. Disable the plugin just upload .mo files in /languages/. You must check your theme! Maybe overriding default language is the problem! or …
OK – I got it, the old posts already on the database do NOT have an english translation and that’s the problem with my loop. When I add a new post, I have the option to provide a translation which then appears in the english page. looking through the docs I found that I can … Read more
I’ll use as example two pages: Hello (en) and Bonjour (fr). Click “Edit” in page Hello (doesn’t really matter which one) At the right sidebar there will be the language of the current page (English) and a list of flags of other languages with a plus symbol (to create another page) and a text input … Read more
From this post at wordpress.org/support, the user Chrystl points out: If don’t need to translate your media titles, uncheck this option: In Languages > Settings tab > Media: “Activate languages and translations for media”. And you will access to your entire library by clicking on “Add media” and “Set featured image”. And that indeed did … Read more