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need wp plugin for language selection with 'remember my selection' option

by belgianguy
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Title pretty much says it all. I want a popup on my wp site when a visitor enters the first time. He then chooses his preferred language and is taken to the corresponding page. When he returns, the site should have remembered his preferred language.

Do you know of any plugins that do this?

Thanks!
#language #option #plugin #remember #selection
  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Why not use the industry standard, been there since perhaps the beginning, locale? It is ALREADY set on everyone's browsers!

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    • Profile picture of the author RyanGillam
      Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

      Why not use the industry standard, been there since perhaps the beginning, locale? It is ALREADY set on everyone's browsers!

      Steve
      I absolutely hate websites that do that! I live in Sweden but I don't speak Swedish. It is annoying when websites automatically translate into Swedish for me, and then give me no option to change back!
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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by RyanGillam View Post

        I absolutely hate websites that do that! I live in Sweden but I don't speak Swedish. It is annoying when websites automatically translate into Swedish for me, and then give me no option to change back!
        Why don't you simply set your browsers locale to English or whatever? What I am talking about has NOTHING to do with where you live!!!!!!

        Say you live in Switzerland, and buy your computer in zurich. They have FOUR official languages in switzerland:

        German, French, Italian, and Rhetto romansche. Since you bought your computer in zurich, it will likely default to German(primary language in zurich).

        You can tell the browser that you prefer, in order, french, spanish, and russian. If the site is available in french, you will get that. If it doesn't have french, but has spanish, you will get spanish. If it doesn't have the others, but has russian, you will get russian. If it does no such checks, you will get IT'S default. But a local locale driven website would NOT give you german, even though that is the standard language where you live.

        EASY, HUH!?!?!?

        Steve
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    • Profile picture of the author belgianguy
      Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

      Why not use the industry standard, been there since perhaps the beginning, locale? It is ALREADY set on everyone's browsers!

      Steve
      I live in a country where there are three official languages, this solution is not an option for me.
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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by belgianguy View Post

        I live in a country where there are three official languages, this solution is not an option for me.
        YES IT IS! As I explained, it allows you to enter from 1 to x languages by order of preference. I only tried up to maybe 5 languages, so I don't know what the limit is, but even 5 is good enough for most. BESIDES, most that speak that many languages probably speak english also, and it is probably one of the most common.

        Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    I don't know of any but it would take a php coder a few minutes to write you something like this.

    You would just need a popup when people come to the site, they choose their language and are taken to the corresponding page. A cookie is set so the language they chose is remembered.
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Go HERE:

    6 Ways to Change Your Browser's Language - wikiHow

    THIS shows how to change it. If you are in a foreign land, and having problem with languages, this may solve THAT also!

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    BTW the reason why it is called LOCALE, and NOT language, is because it realizes that there is often NOT one language! For english, on chrome, for example, there IS NOT one english! There are SIX! US, UK, CA, AU, SA, and NZ! 3 chinese, 4 german, 4 french, etc.... Men der er kun en Dansk. (But there is only one danish.) OH, and there is only one zulu also!

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author ashishmahajan
    I will provide you WP Plugin.
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