What’s new in the world of Polylang?

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. The author of this code took care to not override the query var ‘paged’, not to…

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: Second, the navigation menu is displayed with ‘wp_nav_menu’. Here again is an example taken from Twenty Twelve: The function accepts quite a lot of (optional) arguments, but the most important one is ‘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…

Some themes (Twenty Twelve, Responsive…) use the builtin WordPress custom header image. That’s a nice feature, but what if you include text in this header image? You will need one image per language! It is very easy to obtain thanks to the wpml-config.xml file. Step 1: create a directory ‘polylang’ in ‘wp-content’ (this is a…

For a very long time, Polylang allows to synchronize some post properties or metadata across translations. For example, you can synchronize taxonomies and custom fields. The site’s administrator decides this under Languages > Settings > Synchronizations. How does it work? Let say that you have a post about an event and that this post includes…

Want to learn how to add a language switcher to your WordPress site? You’ve come to the right place. A language switcher (or language selector) is your website’s multilingual navigator, allowing visitors to effortlessly explore content in different languages. It empowers your international audience to be able to select their preferred language when they are…

Today, we’ll see how translations are working in the WordPress ecosystem. First, you need to keep in mind that Polylang, Polylang Pro or Polylang for WooCommerce doesn’t translate anything. It “just” asks WordPress to load the correct language pack according to the language selected in front-end thanks to our language switcher. How translations in WordPress…

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How WordPress handles ajax for quick edit Triggering the event The inlineEditPost object is registered as global. It contains an init() method, which is called when the document is loaded. This method attach a ‘click’ event listener to elements with the .editinline CSS class, it also attach a ‘click’ event listener and a ‘keydown’ event…

In web development, when you want to import or export files from a server to a client, or vice versa, you will transfer such files through the HTTP protocol. In both cases, the HTTP request or response usually declares which kind of content they’re transfering. I’d use an a comparison to explain it easier :…