Title: Custom Language Selection
Last modified: July 5, 2024

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# Custom Language Selection

 *  [mustafaaydinol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mustafaaydinol/)
 * (@mustafaaydinol)
 * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-language-selection/)
 * I was working with a media team and they have already translated the mentioned
   website to several ones. They are on the server, I can access cPanel, they have
   are in subfolders.
 * 
   So When you open the website, you can see a Language Selector Dropdown Menu 
   placed in the topbar.
 * Recently I want to change the theme&design of the site, but I couldn’t figure
   out how to build a custom language dropdown menu like the that’s on the site.
 * Of course I can open on Chrome and copy the code but is there a plugin which 
   can create such menu and accepts custom links without subscription?
 * I don’t want to pay annually for a translation plug-in. We are already paying
   for some kind of AI service and can access translation services.
 * 
   So is there an easy way to do this?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcustom-language-selection%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-language-selection/#post-17871464)
 * The solution depends on the theme you choose. If the theme has a top bar widget
   area, you could simply insert a navigation menu widget there, and define a menu
   comprised of custom links to the various languages to go with it.
 * If your chosen theme has a similar nav menu and you want the lang selector to
   appear after it, you could use the “wp_nav_menu” filter to insert the desired
   HTML into the normal menu output.
 * If neither of those are viable options, you could create a child theme and directly
   modify a copy of the appropriate template to include the lang selector.
 *  Thread Starter [mustafaaydinol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mustafaaydinol/)
 * (@mustafaaydinol)
 * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-language-selection/#post-17871959)
 * Well this was a little complicated to understand. I found “wp_nav_menu” in header.
   php file. Also asked Claude and ChatGPT how to modify the CSS and Bootstrap.
 * This is an interesting issue. I thought that there would be a plugin to build
   simple dropdown menus but it turned out to be quite difficult.
 * Thanks for the help though. If you have any knowledge of such plugins please 
   update.
 * Regards
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-language-selection/#post-17872992)
 * The only menu plugins I know of are of the “mega menu” kind, which isn’t really
   what you’re after.
 * Your current language selector is separate from the nav menu but adjacent to 
   it. One thing you could do instead of what I suggested earlier is to incorporate
   the language links into your usual nav menu scheme. It would be feasible to add
   some custom CSS to the language menu items so they look like they are separate
   from the nav menu even though the HTML belongs to the overall nav menu element.

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 * [dropdown menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dropdown-menu/)
 * [language](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/language/)
 * [language selection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/language-selection/)

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 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-language-selection/#post-17872992)
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