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Multisite Language Switcher

This is an English translation of the original article in German by Dennis Ploetner, the developer of this multilingual plugin for WordPress.

• View the original article in German
• View the article in Italian
• View the article in French
• View the plugin page in the WordPress Plugin Directory

More and more often, I have to install WordPress in several languages. Until recently, there were basically two solutions for creating websites in more than one language on WordPress:

• either install WordPress for every wanted language,
• or use one of the plugins available for multilingual blogs, like WPLM for instance.

When WordPress 3.0 was issued, including the multisite feature (allowing the creation of several blogs within one single WordPress installation), I then indicated that the time had come to offer a third solution – solution which still today, seems the most valid to me. In reality, the only thing that was missing then was the possibility of managing the relationships between posts and their translations.

In February 2010, surprise! The news occurred: WPML had become a commercial plugin. With qTranslate, WPML probably remains one of the most interesting solutions for businesses that appreciate the integrated translations features.

However, it was for me the right time to work more intensively on the third solution and to create the Multisite Language Switcher plugin.

HowTo

• Installation
• Settings
• Association of posts written in different languages
• Use
• Participate
• Donations
• Acknowledgment

For Developers

• Get the current language
• Generate the output
• Change the output
• Change the blog-collection
• Use the blog-collection in your functions (and filters)
• Change the generated URLs
• FAQ