Title: Simple Language Switcher Author: matthewbe Published: May 31, 2013 Last modified: September 5, 2013 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/simple-language-switcher/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=721115) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/simple-language-switcher_f1e0d6.svg) # Simple Language Switcher By [matthewbe](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matthewbe/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/simple-language-switcher.zip) * [Details](https://zh-sg.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-language-switcher/#description) * [Reviews](https://zh-sg.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-language-switcher/#reviews) * [Installation](https://zh-sg.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-language-switcher/#installation) * [Development](https://zh-sg.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-language-switcher/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-language-switcher/) ## Description Simple Language Switcher is a simple and lightweight plugin that allows you to display a language switcher on your site. #### Features * You can easily customize the display of your language switcher (language ISO codes, language names or flags). * Interconnect your post in different languages (avoids the user to be redirected to the home page when switching to another language). * Current language detection with regex: avoids displaying a link to the same page in the same language. * Generates rel=”alternate” hreflang=”x” links for SEO purposes. You will find full details, instructions and a demo here: http://www.mendoweb.be/ blog/wordpress-plugin-simple-language-switcher/ #### Before you downvote this plugin * Understand that this is not an attempt at making a plugin for a complete multilingual solution; you will find better plugins out there for this. * It didn’t work for you? You found a bug? Give me a description with some details in the support forum, and I will fix it as soon as I can. * For some reason, you didn’t like it? Share me your suggestions in the support forum, and perhaps I will work on it. #### Support Did you enjoy this plugin? Please take a moment to rate and comment, this will keep me motivated to update this plugin for bugfixes and WordPress upgrades. ## Installation 1. Upload the ‘simple-language-switcher’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Configure the plugin in Settings > Simple Language Switcher 4. Display the language switcher via the Simple Language Switcher Widget or by calling the function simple_language_switcher() in your theme ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Simple Language Switcher” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ matthewbe ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matthewbe/) [Translate “Simple Language Switcher” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/simple-language-switcher) ### Interested in development? 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