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Total downloads: 6,200
Active installs: 20
Total reviews: 5
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 4 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 11/28/2025 (34 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 12/14/2016 (9 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.9
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.9
Minimum PHP version: 7.4.33

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 34 days ago • 5 reviews

61/100

Is JSM User Locale Selector abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 34 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 5.9
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 7.4.33

Ratings

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Developers

JS Morisset (Owner)34

Languages

French (France)20,849French (Canada)3,236French (Belgium)1,910

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Description

Add a user locale drop-down menu item in the WordPress admin back-end admin and front-end toolbar menus.

Perfect for anyone that needs to switch languages quickly and easily – allows logged-in users to change their preferred locale / language setting right from the toolbar menu (instead of having to update their WordPress user profile page).

The default WordPress behavior is to apply the user locale preference to the admin back-end only – this plugin extends the user locale / language preference to the front-end webpage as well.

There are no plugin settings – simply install and activate the plugin.

Do you use the Polylang plugin?

If the Polylang plugin is active, the user locale menu will automatically use the correct Polylang language URLs for the current webpage.

Installation

No installation instructions available

Frequently Asked Questions

No FAQ available

Review feed

jomo
4/9/2017

Really useful

Hi, I think this plugin is really useful, stable and reliable. I've been recommending it in the BuddyPress forum and also now in my own translation helper plugin which I designed to work with this: [link removed] So excellent, 5 stars.
Jeremy Varnham
9/26/2018

Effective

A simple but effective plugin. The convenience of a quick admin language switcher saves precious seconds. Thanks.

Screenshots

  1. An example user locale language selector in the WordPress front-end toolbar menu.

    An example user locale language selector in the WordPress front-end toolbar menu.

Changelog

Version Numbering

Version components: {major}.{minor}.{bugfix}[-{stage}.{level}]

  • {major} = Major structural code changes and/or incompatible API changes (ie. breaking changes).
  • {minor} = New functionality was added or improved in a backwards-compatible manner.
  • {bugfix} = Backwards-compatible bug fixes or small improvements.
  • {stage}.{level} = Pre-production release: dev < a (alpha) < b (beta) < rc (release candidate).

Repositories

Changelog / Release Notes

Version 2.2.1 (2023/07/08)

  • New Features
    • None.
  • Improvements
    • None.
  • Bugfixes
    • None.
  • Developer Notes
    • Minor code optimization and standardization:
      • Replaced {get|update|delete}_{comment|post|term|user}_meta() functions by {get|update|delete}_metadata().
  • Requires At Least
    • PHP v7.4.33.
    • WordPress v5.9.
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