flag in menu / nav bar?

  • Resolved Andi Saitenhieb

    (@andi-saitenhieb)


    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi there,
    just checked the usual suspects of multi language plugins and Weglot is my favorite for it’s simplicity and auto translation. Great stuff!

    Only problem I have so far: How can I have the flag instead of the language name text in the main navigation / menu? When I add it, it ignores the settings, which are for the floating language selection only, I guess.
    The option of choosing flag or text or both was actually the only thing that was better in Polylang. But maybe I just missed something here … 😉

    Translations: WPML has translated 12.000 words per month free while having an active subscription. I am not sure how to understand Weglot: 10.000 words total at any given point in time or 10.000 words per month? What if I simply translate additional text myself, would that be free of charge?

    Thanks a lot,
    Andi

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  • Plugin Contributor Julien MA Jacob

    (@wpr0ck)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hello @andi-saitenhieb,

    To display the language selector in a menu by displaying the flag instead of the language name, you must, in your WordPress backoffice, Weglot settings :

    To show flags :
    – Check option : With flags (Check if you want flags in the language button)

    to hide the name :
    – Uncheck option : With name (Check if you want to display the name of languages)

    The number of words is the total number of words on your website, multiplied by the number of languages you want to translate it into. You can find all details here : https://weglot.com/pricing/

    Best regards,

    Thread Starter Andi Saitenhieb

    (@andi-saitenhieb)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hello @wpr0ck

    thank you for your reply.

    1) Just to be sure that I get that right as I can’t believe it to be true:
    The price of a Weglot subscription depends on the total number of words on my website, even if one would do all the translations by oneself?
    Like I have a blog with 10 blog posts in German & English, 1000 words each, plus a few words on the about me page, (let’s say altogether 10,100 words), all translated by myself, than I’d have to pay 190€ per year (> 10,000 words, < 50,000 words) although I didn’t use any translations?

    2) I understand about the settings and it’s exactly what I did.
    But these settings only change the appearance of the language selection with the shortcode, not in the nav bar. In the nav bar it’s always text only.

    Local Bitnami installation.
    Wordpress & theme “Thrive Theme Builder” & page builder “Thrive Architect” are all up to date.

    So just for the fun of it I switched to GeneratePress Theme (although I have premium I deactivated the plugin “GeneratePress Premium” and used just the naked theme) and deactivated ALL plugins.
    The language switch in the nav bar is now flag AND text, although I deactivated all options except for “show flag”. The shortcode and the widget show dopdown menus (which I deactivated as previously stated), flags and language name text (which I deactivated as previously stated).

    As everything is up to date on my installation and all plugins are deactivated and this is a pretty fresh WP installation, that looks a lot like Weglot compatibility problems with two of the most popular and well-programmed themes (both of which are known to be strict by the official WP rules).

    As much as I want to like Weglot for it’s ease of use, if you don’t have any other suggestions what might be the problem (Bitnami?) sadly I have to buy Polylang or WPML. Hoping for your answer!

    Andi

    Plugin Contributor Julien MA Jacob

    (@wpr0ck)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hello @andi-saitenhieb,

    For the question 1: Pricing

    Indeed, It is the number served by the Weglot API that are counted, whether or not they are edited or generated automatically. If you want to estimate your site’s word count, you can use our word count tool here: https://wordcount.weglot.com/

    For the question 2: Language switcher appearance

    Please, Can you check at the options available on the menu item to see if this fixes the problem? You can access it by : Appearances -> Menus -> Menu links options “Show as dropdown (By default it’s a list)” (Screen capture: https://i.ibb.co/dsTcY5s/Capture-d-e-cran-2020-07-24-a-12-12-02.png).

    If this does not meet your expectations, you can send me the relevant site link and I will look to offer you a personalized solution.

    Best regards,

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