Multisite Language Switcher Reviews, Downloads & Maintenance

A simple, powerful, and user-friendly plugin that adds multilingual support to your WordPress multisite installation, whether using multiple subdomains or folders. Multisite Language Switcher allows you to effortlessly manage translations for posts, pages, custom post types, categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.

The plugin uses flag icons from FamFamFam. Thanks to Mark James for his great work. In addition, I would like to thank Jürgen Mayer for creating the plugin’s banner.

Please, don’t forget to rate this plugin! 🙂

Translators

Thanks to all the translators for their great work.

German (de_DE) – Dennis Ploetner
Italian (it_IT) – Antonella Cucinelli
Dutch (nl_NL) – Alexandra Kleijn
Brazillian Portuguese (pt_BR) – Coolweb
Spanish (es_ES) – Andreas Breitschopp
French (fr_FR) – Andreas Breitschopp
Russian (ru_RU) – Andrey Vystavkin
Ukrainian (uk) – Victor Melnichenko
Croatian (hr_HR) – Brankec69
Romanian (ro_RO) – Armand K
Polish (pl_PL) – Kamil Frejlich
Lithuanian (lt_LT) – Ovidijus Pukys
Catalan (ca_ES) – Joan López
Czech (cs_CZ) – Rastr
Hungarian (hu_HU) – RobiG
Georgian (ka_GE) – Jas Saran
Greek (el) – Christoforos Aivazidis
Serbian (sr_RS) – Web Hosting Hub
Turkish (tr) – Alican Cakil
Armenian (hy_AM) – Yeghishe Nersisyan
Bengali (bn_BD) – Md. Nazmul Huda
Japanese (ja) – ThemeBoy
Swedish (sv_SE) – Erik Bernskiold
Traditional & Simplified Chinese (zh_CN & zh_TW) – DrBenson
Arabic (ar) – Mohamed Elwan
Norwegian (nb_NO) – Ibrahim Qraiqe
Bulgarian (bg_BG) – Vencislav Raev
Mexican Spanish (es_MX) – Fernando Mata

You can translate this plugin on translate.wordpress.org, or if you prefer and have created your language pack, or have an update of an existing one, you can send me your Gettext PO and MO so that I can
bundle it into the Multisite Language Switcher. You can download the latest POT file
from here.

Installation

Use the WordPress admin to install the plugin from there or
Download the plugin and uncompress it with your preferred unzip programme and copy the entire directory in the plugin directory of your WordPress blog (/wp-content/plugins)
Activate the plugin in your plugin administration page (by the network administrator on all the blogs or by the blog administrator for each particular blog).
You need to activate the plugin once in each blog, by setting the configuration in Settings -> Multisite Language Switcher

Now you can:

Connect your translated pages and posts in Posts -> Edit or Page -> Edit
Connect your translated categories and tags in Posts -> Categories or Post -> Tags
connect your Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies across languages
use the widget, the Gutenberg block, the shortcode [sc_msls] and/or a content_filter which displays a hint to the user if a translation is available
you can find also a shortcode for the widget [sc_msls_widget]
optionally you can place the code <?php if ( function_exists( 'the_msls' ) ) the_msls(); ?> directly in your theme files

Review the Multisite Language Switcher Website for more information.

Frequently Asked Questions

I have no language options in the General settings.

You might read first WordPress in your language.

But I’d like the interface to stay in English.

You can choose the language of the dashboard in the settings of your user profile.

Do I need a multisite?

It’s up to you – of course. But yes, if you want to use the Multisite Language Switcher.

How can I automatically redirect users based on the browser language?

The Multisite Language Switcher does not redirect the users automatically. I’m not sure if the plugin should do that. You might check out this jQuery plugin or this approach with a theme
if you need such functionality.

How can I add the Multisite Language Switcher to the nav menu of my blog?

Please check the add-on MslsMenu out.

I want to have the languages in an HTML select. How can I do that?

Please check the add-on MslsSelect out.

Can I call a function to get the language of the page the user is viewing?

Yes, you should use the WordPress API function get_locale() but you could also use code like that

use lloc\Msls\MslsBlogCollection;

$blog     = MslsBlogCollection::instance()->get_current_blog();
$language = $blog->get_language();

If I have another question, where can I ask?

Please visit the MSLS website or use the WordPress support forum for more information.

Review feed

Rocco Aliberti

1/27/2021

It does exactly what it should

Do I have to add anything else? Made my life (a lot) easier!

Stonehenge Creations

1/28/2021

The prefect, simple solution!

I have been using this plugin in combination with MslsMenu for more than 7 years now. For me this is a simple, yet absolutely perfect solution for any multilingual WordPress site. Very easy to use. Easily linking cross-blog pages together without having to worry about any third-party plugin compatibility. Its simplicity allows website admins full control over the content of each individual blog. Perfect if not all your blogs offer the exact same content, like country-restricted services such as gift cards or house calls or payment methods. WordPress MultiSite handles all settings per blog and with MultiSite Language Switcher you can use different date/time formatting, even different email addresses, etc. tailored to the blog's locale. Thank you very much for providing the perfect solution, Dennis!