Title: [REQUEST] Language Selector Plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# [REQUEST] Language Selector Plugin

 *  [Jon Dingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdingman/)
 * (@jdingman)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-language-selector-plugin/)
 * I am looking for someone to make a language selector where someone can put ( 
   en | de | fr ) or something in that mannger and it will display the blog in that
   lanauge from that point on by using cookies.
 * I looked around, but only found ones that were broken and didn’t work. I’m hoping
   someone will make a working 1.5.x plugin of this kind, thank you.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-language-selector-plugin/#post-207928)
 * Did you find this one: [http://fredfred.net/skriker/index.php/polyglot](http://fredfred.net/skriker/index.php/polyglot)
   
   For some people it works 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Jon Dingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdingman/)
 * (@jdingman)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-language-selector-plugin/#post-207931)
 * That’s the one I tested and it didn’t work at all, the plugin was completely 
   broken and didn’t load.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-language-selector-plugin/#post-207937)
 * For me it worked only partially – meaning for the posts, but never to change 
   the menu and the other stuff. But I’ve seen people with happy feedback in the
   comments there. I am also looking for something that would work in a painless
   manner 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Jon Dingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdingman/)
 * (@jdingman)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-language-selector-plugin/#post-207939)
 * I’m still looking for something that will just set a cookie and change the language
   using the WP files.
 * Thanks
 *  [angsuman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angsuman/)
 * (@angsuman)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-language-selector-plugin/#post-208018)
 * I will upload one maybe today or tomorrow. Check out blog.taragana.com for an
   example.
 *  [angsuman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angsuman/)
 * (@angsuman)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-language-selector-plugin/#post-208107)
 * Let me know if this is what you are looking for:
    [WordPress Plugin: Automatic Machine Translation for Your Blog in Eight Languages](http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugin-automatic-machine-translation-for-your-blog-in-eight-languages-spanish-french-german-portuguese-italian-japanese-korean-and-chinese/)
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-language-selector-plugin/#post-208108)
 * Well, not for me. I am looking forward to have a functioning, real _multilingual_
   blogging plugin/hack whatever.
 *  [jwurster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwurster/)
 * (@jwurster)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-language-selector-plugin/#post-208109)
 * moshu, not sure what you mean. Could you explain?
 * angsuman, that looks great!
 * jim
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-language-selector-plugin/#post-208110)
 * [@jwurster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwurster/),
    please, see my [last post](http://www.transycan.net/wp/archives/2005/06/03/multilingual-blogging/)
   on my blog for a detailed answer. Thanks for asking, it forced me to finally 
   sit down and write the article I wanted for a while ago 🙂
 *  [angsuman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angsuman/)
 * (@angsuman)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-language-selector-plugin/#post-208111)
 * [@moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * The Translator plugin is aimed at people who write in English, yet want to make
   their blog available to non-English readers.
 * Machine translation isn’t the best, however most of us (including myself) cannot
   afford (time and cost wise) to translate each posts (personally or through professional
   translation services) to multiple languages. This plugin is targeted for such
   users.
 * Moshu> For me multilingual now means having posts in more than one language.
 * Well, this plugin is a translation service.
    It doesn’t aim to be multilingual
   blogging service.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-language-selector-plugin/#post-208112)
 * [@angsuman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angsuman/),
    I know exactly what
   your plugin is – and I even admitted its usefulness under certain conditions.
   However I think the OP was looking for something else. On the other hand since
   you introduced your plugin with _Let me know if this is what you are looking 
   for…_ I stated briefly that it isn’t 🙂 One more remark: the last thing what 
   I want in a multilingual blog to have all the articles in two or more languages.
   I’d would rarely do that, but I would really like to have only one blog having
   posts in different languages AND the possibility to “filter” them by the language
   for different visitors etc. (Eh, I don’t want to repeat what I just posted.)
 *  [angsuman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angsuman/)
 * (@angsuman)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-language-selector-plugin/#post-208113)
 * Moshu> For me multilingual now means having posts in more than one language.
 * I actually quoted you verbatim from your post 🙂
 * I understand what you are looking for too. For example I am a Bengali. It would
   be fun to write few posts in Bengali and made them accessible to Bengali readers
   only. Hopefully someone will solve the problem or I will tackle that next time
   😉
 *  [erikcw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erikcw/)
 * (@erikcw)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-language-selector-plugin/#post-208204)
 * I thought about using language categories for something like this. But how about
   using tags? Then you don’t have to mess with your categories? Of course that 
   doesn’t fix the problem of the theme still being in the primary language.
 * For my purposes – I can see using both a “translated version of every post” as
   well as selective multilingual posting.
 * Just my 2 cents…

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