Title: Sublanguage Switcher Widget
Author: Ralf Geschke
Published: <strong>April 26, 2018</strong>
Last modified: June 16, 2018

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# Sublanguage Switcher Widget

 By [Ralf Geschke](https://profiles.wordpress.org/geschke/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sublanguage-switcher-widget.1.0.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/sublanguage-switcher-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/sublanguage-switcher-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/sublanguage-switcher-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/sublanguage-switcher-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sublanguage-switcher-widget/)

## Description

The Sublanguage plugin is a great toolkit to create multilingual websites. The Sublanguage
Switcher Widget
 is a plugin which builds a more sophisticated language switcher
widget.

#### Features

 * List view of languages with language names and/or flags
 * List view can displayed horizontally or vertically
 * Selectbox view
 * Hide current language

#### Credits

 * [maximeschoeni](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maximeschoeni) for the excellent
   Sublanguage plugin
 * [Chouby](https://profiles.wordpress.org/Chouby) / [Polylang](https://polylang.pro)
   for the
    comprehensive list of predefined languages in the languages.php file.
 * Most of the flags included are coming from [famfamfam](http://famfamfam.com/)
   and are public domain.

Wherever third party code has been used, credit has been given in the code’s comments.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Widget configuraton, list options
 * [[
 * Widget configuration, selectbox options
 * [[
 * Language switcher displayed in navigation bar and sidebar

## Installation

Please install, activate and configure the Sublanguage plugin at first. If you’re
familiar with
 using sublanguage, e.g. if you have added a language and know how
to create articles in multiple languages, then it’s time to try out Sublanguage_Switcher_Widget.

Then upload and activate the plugin.

You can use the Sublanguage Switcher Widget as any widget available in your WordPress
installation.
 The Sublanguage Switcher Widget is available in the widgets configuration
menu and in the widgets section in the Customizer. All you have to do is to drag
the “Sublanguage Switcher Widget” item in an available widget zone.

The widget options are self-explanatory, so play around and have fun!

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

Please install, activate and configure the Sublanguage plugin at first. If you’re
familiar with
 using sublanguage, e.g. if you have added a language and know how
to create articles in multiple languages, then it’s time to try out Sublanguage_Switcher_Widget.

Then upload and activate the plugin.

You can use the Sublanguage Switcher Widget as any widget available in your WordPress
installation.
 The Sublanguage Switcher Widget is available in the widgets configuration
menu and in the widgets section in the Customizer. All you have to do is to drag
the “Sublanguage Switcher Widget” item in an available widget zone.

The widget options are self-explanatory, so play around and have fun!

  The language switch is not shown, how do I remove the warning message?

This widget needs the Sublanguage plugin as prerequisite. Please install, activate
and configure
 Sublanguage, e.g. add a language, write an article in multiple languages
and so on.

  How can I style or customize the output?

You can use additional CSS to style the widget. All contents are contained in a 
DOM node with
 the class “widget_sublanguage_switcher_widget”. So you’re free to
add some styles.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Sublanguage Switcher Widget” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Ralf Geschke ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/geschke/)

[Translate “Sublanguage Switcher Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/sublanguage-switcher-widget)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sublanguage-switcher-widget/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/sublanguage-switcher-widget/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/sublanguage-switcher-widget/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/sublanguage-switcher-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * First release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.1**
 *  Last updated **8 years ago**
 *  Active installations **80+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.4 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.9.29**
 *  PHP version ** 5.2.4 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sublanguage-switcher-widget/)
 * Tags
 * [language](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/language/)[multilanguage](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/multilanguage/)
   [multilingual](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/multilingual/)[translation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/translation/)
   [widget](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/sublanguage-switcher-widget/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Ralf Geschke ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/geschke/)

## Support

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