What’s new in the world of Polylang?

Do you want your website to rank higher on Google, not just on .com but also on Google.fr, Google.it or Google.de for example? Would you like to attract international visitors and actually convert them into customers? Then, going multilingual may be the answer.  But to make it work, you need more than just automatic translation….

In this guide, we explain how to achieve WordPress multilingual functionality without relying on any plugins. While this approach offers advantages like full control over configurations, it requires meticulous manual setup and technical expertise. For example, navigating core WordPress settings and adjusting advanced options are necessary to ensure comprehensive internationalization coverage.However, an alternative route using…

Select the right sub-category The opening title must be concise What you expected to see What you see instead List the steps to replicate the issue Add pictures and/or record a video of your screen Give the URL and the license key of your website Debugging solutions already attempted WordPress, plugins/themes version, and site health…

Are you wondering how Polylang helps Google to display the right language version of your site to international visitors? Short answer: thanks to the hreflang HTML tag attributes that specify the language and geographical targeting of a webpage. Polylang automatically uses the hreflang HTML tag attributes on your multilingual site so you don’t need to…

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…

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…