What’s new in the world of Polylang?

MailOptin is a WordPress plugin that allows you to grow your email list and display targeted messages and optin forms across your WordPress website with popups, slide-ins, notification bar, sidebar widget and in-content form. MailOptin integrates with your email marketing software such as MailChimp, AWeber, Constant Contact and ActiveCampaign and by so doing, subscribers are…

We are happy to inform you that the QuadMenu authors have integrated a compatibility with Polylang. QuadMenu Pro is a WordPress Mega Menu plugin which allows you to design your menus. With QuadMenu Pro you can easily mega menus, tabbed menus, carrousel menus and define a custom template for each menu location. Let’s see how…

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’…

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…