Dennis Ploetner

<p>Most people are likely to use some lines of PHP or the widget provided by the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/multisite-language-switcher/" rel="ugc">Multisite Language Switcher</a> to integrate the links to the translations in their blogs.</p>
<p>But if you look for an <strong>easy way</strong> to change the output of the <em>Multisite Language Switcher</em> as an HTML select with some JavaScript that forwards the visitor automatically after selecting an option then give <strong>MslsSelect</strong> a try.</p>


MslsSelect

Transforms the output of the Multisite Language Switcher to an HTML select

Yann at WP&amp;Co

<p>This very simple WordPress plugin automatically sets up the WP language environment based on the first part of the url of any page.</p>
<p>It will automatically setup the right XML header lang attribute + the internal WordPress $locale variable that is used to load the right language files for i18n and l10n (.po, .mo).</p>
<h4>Usage:</h4>
<p>Your blog URL structure should always begin with an official two-letter langage code, for example:</p>
<ul>
<li>/en/… for english</li>
<li>/es/… for Spanish</li>
<li>/ja/… for Japanese</li>
<li>/fr/… for French</li>
<li>etc.</li>
</ul>
<p>Please use only lower-case codes.</p>
<p>Pages that don’t comply to this URL scheme will still get your blog’s default locale setting, as configured in your wp-config.php file.</p>
<p>Sometimes you need to rename or copy some of your po/mo files, for example French language PO files are usually named like this: <code>fr_FR.po</code>;<br />
just copy it to <code>fr.po</code> to make it work with a two-letter code.</p>
<h4>Example</h4>
<p>This plugin is used for extended multi-language support on the <a href="http://post2peer.com/about" title="Post2Peer posts and sites directory" rel="nofollow ugc">Post2Peer.com open posts directory</a>.</p>
<h4>Français</h4>
<p>Ce plugin permet très simplement de faire fonctionner un blog multilingue ou bilingue, français/anglais par exemple.</p>
<h4>Active support</h4>
<p>Drop me a line on my <a href="http://www.yann.com/wp-plugins/yd-setup-locale" title="Yann Dubois' Setup Locale for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">YD Setup Locale plugin support site</a> to report bugs, ask for specific feature or improvement, or just tell me how you’re using the plugin.</p>
<h3>Revisions</h3>
<p>0.1.0 Initial beta release</p>
<h3>Did you like it?</h3>
<p>Drop me a line on http://www.yann.com/wp-plugins/yd-setup-locale</p>


YD Setup Locale

Automatically sets up the WP language environment based on first part of url. Will setup XML lang attribute + $locale variable.

MslsSelect vs YD Setup Locale