Dominik Schilling

<p>This plugin helps you to declutter your WordPress login screen by removing the language switcher which has been <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/20/introducing-new-language-switcher-on-the-login-screen-in-wp-5-9/" rel="nofollow ugc">introduced in WordPress 5.9</a>.</p>
<p>Removing the dropdown makes sense when you only have one additional language installed and don’t intend to change back to English for example. In this case you can simply install and activate the plugin. There are no futher settings.</p>
<h3>What does this plugin do?</h3>
<p>The plugin uses the default <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/hooks/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Hooks API</a> and disables the language selector with the following one-liner:</p>
<pre><code>add_filter( 'login_display_language_dropdown', '__return_false' );
</code></pre>


Disable Login Language Switcher

Does what it says on the tin.

Removes the language dropdown from the login screen.

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Pascal Birchler

Dion Hulse

WordPress Performance Team

<p>Making internationalization/localization in WordPress faster than ever before.</p>
<h3>Disclaimer about WordPress 6.5</h3>
<p><strong>Attention:</strong> most functionality of this plugin has been merged into WordPress 6.5! You might not need it anymore.</p>
<p><em>However</em>, this plugin is still relevant for cases where language packs are not downloaded from WordPress.org but somewhere else, for example if you are developing your own plugins or using commercial plugins.</p>
<p>The Performant Translations plugin converts the translation files of those plugins to the new file format introduced in WordPress 6.5, to really optimize them for speed.</p>
<h3>What this plugin does</h3>
<p>This project uses a new approach to handle translation files in WordPress, making localization blazing fast.</p>
<p>An <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/07/24/i18n-performance-analysis/" rel="nofollow ugc">in-depth i18n performance analysis</a> showed that localized WordPress sites load significantly slower than a site without translations.</p>
<p>With this plugin’s new approach to localization, this overhead is massively reduced, making your site fast again. It does so by converting <code>.mo</code> translation files to <code>.php</code> files.</p>
<p>If your site is using a language other than English (US), you should see immediate speed improvements simply by activating this plugin.</p>


Performant Translations


This is a commendable effort, and it came out at the perfect time, at least for me.



I am looking forward to seeing how it evolves, and I hope to see it merged with the core in the fourth phase of the Gutenberg project.


Commendable effort


Installed this plugin to see what the effect is on my site. I am not yet 100% sure that it makes a big difference. But that all depends on the amount of texts used on your site. So far no bad experiences


Plugin speeds up the presentation of your site


I've got a multi language site (with WPML) that has a huge performance problem. I was not able to figure out what is actually causing the performance problem, the main problem probably has nothing to do with i18n, this plugin still helps cause it significantely speeds up the translations, leaving the only bottleneck to be the unknown problem.



Many thanks for your efforts!


Cool

Making internationalization/localization in WordPress faster than ever before.

Disable Login Language Switcher vs Performant Translations