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: $args is an optional array parameter. Options are: ‘dropdown’ => displays a list if set to 0, a dropdown list if set to 1 (default: 0) ‘show_names’ => … Read more
See Installing WordPress in Your Language in the codex.
According to Polylangs Function Reference, pll_the_languages Displays a language switcher. And most probably it uses some additional CSS/JS to work. If you want to get the list of languages and display them with your custom code, then you can use this function instead: pll_languages_list($args); and it will return the list of languages. $args is an … Read more
Insights into WordPress Multi-Site, Domain Mapped, and Multilanguage site using WPML [closed]
Tip 1: do not use qtranslate. I’ve used for years and now I can say that never been money better spent than those for WPML, specially if compared to the work needed to solve problems qT brings. Also consider that WPML is compatible with a huge number of plugins and themes, in years I used … Read more
Actually you need to hook in the ‘locale’ filter to set the language you want: add_filter(‘locale’, function($locale) { return esc_attr($_GET[‘language’]); }); Then in the links of your switch, you need to pass the language variable: <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/260015/<?php echo add_query_arg(“language’, ‘xx_XX’) ?>”>XX</a> Where xx_XX is the language locale code for language XX
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/load_theme_textdomain
You can create a custom field, give it a value of lang=’ur’ and check for it in your header.php. Add the custom field from the Custom Fields box. Let’s call it page_lang. Give it a value of lang=’ur’. In header.php: <?php global $post; $lang = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), ‘page_lang’, true); ?> <body <?php body_class();?> <?php echo $lang;?>> … Read more
When naming your po and mo files in a theme, you need to only make use of the language code to name these files. Any other convention will not work For example, my blog is in Afrikaans and the localization language code is af_AF. My mo and po files are named accordingly, ie, af_AF.po and … Read more
If you’re comfortable with the use of WordPress and plugins you should take a look at WPML plugin at http://wpml.org/ It’s working quite well, even for non-programming users.