Description

The purpose of this plugin is to allow users to add a link to a translation version of a page or post in the admin and print this link on their blog, on a single post or or a page.

You can try it out in a temporary copy of WordPress here.

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

Bilingual Linker Language Switcher

Installation

Download the plugin
Upload entire bilingual-linker folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin in the WordPress Admin
Add links to posts or pages in the WordPress editor
Use the OutputBilingualLink function in the loop to display a link to the item translation.

OutputBilingualLink($post_id, $linktext, $beforelink, $afterlink);

When using in The Loop in any template, you can use $post->ID as the first argument to pass the current post ID being processed.

FAQ

There are currently no FAQs

Reviews

Fabian_Niesen Nuwamba 28, 2023

<!– wp:paragraph –> <p class=””>I have tried my bilingual blog with different approaches, multisite with plugins, and single site with plugins. The best an also cost cost-effective solution ended up in two separate WordPress blogs with a unique domain for each language. This plug-in helps to link the articles with an available translation.</p> <!– /wp:paragraph –> <!– wp:paragraph –> <p class=””>Unfortunately, no Gutenberg Themes like twenty-twentytree or twenty-twenty four are supported. </p> <!– /wp:paragraph –>

Pat K Satumba 3, 2016

I have been searching for a simple and supported method for switching between a 2-language version of the same site; 2 WordPress installations, 2 databases and NO multisite. I’m giving this 4 stars because it works and does exactly what I need. The ONLY reason I’m NOT giving it 5 stars is because it’s cryptic as hell. I realize the plugin developer has freely donated his time to create and share the plugin. Yay. Thanks! If the developer really wants it to be accessible and user-friendly, I suggest doing one or more of the following (bearing in mind that many people using the plugin are not professional coders): – Provide up to date written documentation, including examples of how the plugin can be used in a theme. – Provide some screenshots of how to properly configure the plugin settings. – Provide some FAQs reflecting some of the common questions being asked in the support forum. – Provide a basic bilingual demo. If you’re like me and you only need basic switching between 2 sites, pop this into the header.php file on each site: <?php the_bilingual_link(); ?> …despite what it says in the “instructions”. Thus endeth my rant.

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Contributors & Developers

“Bilingual Linker” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Yannick Lefebvre

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Changelog

2.4

Added new navigation block to support FSE themes

2.3.7

Modification so header links always have trailing slash

2.3.6

Fix to output proper hreflang for the current page language. E.g. Was previously outputting de_DE instead of only de for German

2.3.5

Added output to page header to show alternate link for current page language

2.3.4

Add new option to be able to specify a custom coded condition to not display translation link

2.3.3

Change to address missing scripts in admin pages

2.3.2

Adds language selection option in menu builder to be able to create menu items for multiple languages
Adds text name to menu items in menu builder to facilitate managing multiple Bilingual Linker menu items

2.3.1

Fixed issue with adding Bilingual Linker menu in Menu editor

2.3

Added alternate language tags to page header based on user suggestion

2.2.4

Correction in donation link

2.2.3

Added support to display translation link when posts page is not front page

2.2.2

Code fix to use bilingual link set in page editor if page is used as site front page

2.2.1

Fix for Bilingual Linker Menu item

2.2

Added support for custom post type archive pages

2.1.2

Fix for potential XSS vulnerability

2.1.1

Fix for menu items all showing translation link

2.1

Added new item in WordPress menu builder to be able to easily add Bilingual Linker link to menu

2.0.8

Modified the_bilingual_linker function so it can accept arguments as an array
Added new option url_only that only echoes or returns the translation URL. This option is only available when sending options as an array.

2.0.7

Corrected issue preventing users from specifying HTML in link test, before and after fields in admin panel

2.0.6

Corrected issue with new menu suppression options

2.0.5

Added options to hide translation link on front page, search page, archive pages and category pages

2.0.4

Added option to be able to hide translation links on pages that don’t have a translation

2.0.3

Added shortcode [the-bilingual-link]
Added field to configure hreflang

2.0.2

Corrected PHP Warnings

2.0.1

Corrected problem with category meta table creation code

2.0

Added support for multiple languages
Added ability to assign translation links to categories
Translation display link now works on all page types (front page, archives, search results, categories, tag)
Created new display function (the_bilingual_link)

1.2.3

Added option to specify whether the link should be echoed or sent as a function return value

1.2.2

Added option to OutputBilingualLink to be able to provide a default URL to display if no translation link is found

1.2.1

Fixed problem with posts extra field getting deleted

1.2

Updated Bilingual Linker to support network installations
Changed data storage method to use post meta data instead of custom table

1.1

Added code to display Bilingual Linker on all post types, not only on posts and pages

1.0

Initial functionality
Ability to add custom link for translated text in post and page editors
Ability to query this address from WordPress theme