idk.man

No help needed but would love for you guys to integrate this or a similar solution in future iterations of Translate Press for specific applications like this one where a user has to select a language upon login (if the page is restricted). Thank you so much!

Hey, I ended up consulting everyone’s favorite coding body, chatGPT for this.

For my use case, we are dealing with a restricted site content so I needed the language to be selected on the login screen. Attempts to generate the translate press language switcher didn’t work so instead I used the default wordpress language switcher on the login page. The way it works is that it takes the cookie that stores the user preference on language and based on that, redirects to the appropriate url.

It wrote me a simple plugin (basically save this file as a whatever you wanna call it .php file, zip it, and upload it and activate it). It will show one error upon activation: “The plugin generated 1 character of unexpected output during activation.” but after activation it’s fine and the wordpress debug log didn’t show any concerns.

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Custom Login Language Redirect
Description: Adds a language selector to the WordPress login screen and redirects users based on their selection.
Version: 1.0
Author: Your Name
*/

// Add language switcher to login form
function tp_add_language_switcher_to_login() {
    $languages = apply_filters('translatepress_get_translated_languages', array());

    echo '<p>';
    echo '<label for="language">Choose Language:</label>';
    echo '<select name="language" id="language">';
    foreach ($languages as $lang) {

        if (in_array($lang['language'], ['en', 'fr'])) {
            echo '<option value="' . esc_attr($lang['language']) . '">' . esc_html($lang['name']) . '</option>';
        }
    }
    echo '</select>';
    echo '</p>';
}
add_action('login_form', 'tp_add_language_switcher_to_login');

// Redirect users based on language selection
function tp_redirect_users_based_on_language($redirect_to, $requested_redirect_to, $user) {
    if (isset($_POST['language'])) {
        $language = sanitize_text_field($_POST['language']);
        $redirect_to = home_url('/' . $language . '/');
    }
    return $redirect_to;
}
add_filter('login_redirect', 'tp_redirect_users_based_on_language', 10, 3);

I hope this helps anyone that ever needs a similar application.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by idk.man.