What’s new in the world of Polylang?

A few days ago, we released Polylang for WooCommerce 0.6. Of course, we don’t expect it to be totally bug free, but we consider it to be fairly stable and that it decently covers all expected features for a multilingual WooCommerce shop. After more than 7 months of in-situation tests on hundreds of sites, we have…

Let’s imagine that you have to manage a site for US and UK. Some pages may be different for both countries – for example a store’s directory or local news – but it could happen that some pages could be the same for both countries – for example a documentation page or global news. In…

Polylang Pro 2.0 comes with major features for users having multiple domains: Thanks to the single sign on feature, you are now able to preview your translated posts, access the admin bar on all domains, or access deactivated languages when you have sufficient privileges. The browser preferred language detection is now accessible to users having multiple…

I am glad to announce that the long awaited Polylang extension for WooCommerce is now available to allow you to create a multilingual shop. It is already tested by a few Polylang Pro customers for more than one month, some of them already using it on a production site. This extension can work either with Polylang…

Almost five years ago, I started writing a multilingual plugin for my personal needs. Three months later, I made it available to the public and released Polylang 0.1 on wordpress.org. To my great surprise, the number of users grew very rapidly. I started adding more features. Synchronization in 0.7, media in 0.9, WPML config file…

WordPress provides a lot of filters (and actions) to allow plugins or themes to modify the WordPress comportment. Among them, ‘get_search_form’ can be used to modify the search form. If a theme author codes a search form which does not pass through this filter, no plugin is aware of this search form and thus no plugin can…

Quite often, I see plugins calling WordPress functions before the action ‘plugins_loaded’ has been fired, i.e. before all plugins are loaded. Thus, plugins which are loaded after can’t make use of available filters. Among the most frequent functions called as soon as the plugin is loaded are the function ‘load_plugin_textdomain’ and the function ‘get_option’. For…

Quite often, i find in themes custom queries to customize the content displayed on a page. These themes use either ‘query_posts’ or ‘WP_Query’ to achieve that. For example, the code below allows to exclude posts of some categories from homepage. [sourcecode language=”php”] if (is_home()) { $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1; $build_homepage_query = array (…

With the time, more and more plugins and themes intend to be multilingual compatible. As WPML is the most widely used plugin, they implement this multilingual compatibility on top of WPML. What’s fine is that Polylang mimics WPML by implementing the WPML documented API and the language configuration file wpml-config.xml. This is very interesting for…

Using the WordPress navigation menus is quite straightforward. First a theme location is registered. Here is an example taken from Twenty Twelve: [sourcecode language=”php”] register_nav_menu( ‘primary’, __( ‘Primary Menu’, ‘twentytwelve’ ) ); [/sourcecode] Second, the navigation menu is displayed with ‘wp_nav_menu’. Here again is an example taken from Twenty Twelve: [sourcecode language=”php”] wp_nav_menu( array( ‘theme_location’…

A few Polylang users asked how to switch from WPML. That’s pretty easy to do manually but it is quite boring to do if there are tons of posts to migrate (you would have to set all languages and translations manually). Thus I wrote a small plugin which does automate the conversion. It imports languages,…

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin is probably the most popular related posts plugin for WordPress. And since Polylang 1.0, both plugins work together! Step 1: Go to YARPP settings page and in the “Relatedness” options metabox, choose ‘require at least one language in common’ for the Languages option. This will force YARPP to get related…