Description
Polylang is a fantastic plugin to make WordPress multilingual. The Polylang extension enables you to detect the preferred language according on the country.
If your website contains 2 different locales with the same language (e.g. de_DE for German/German and de_AT for German/Austria) then Polylang automatically sets the language according to the browser settings.
Austrian website visitors who have set their operating system / browser to Germany (e.g. the Devices was buyed in Germany) will always be redirected to de_DE.
This Plugin detects the preferred language according on the visitors country and will set the language correct to de_AT.
Please notice that the IP API is only for non-commercial use allowed.
Required Plugin
- Polylang Pro by WP SYNTEX — Polylang allows you to create a bilingual or multilingual WordPress site.
Installation
- Install the required Polylang Plugin available at https://polylang.pro
- Upload ‘pll-country-detection’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
- Enable the «Detect browser language» option in «Languages > Settings»
FAQ
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How does the country detection works?
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The plugin detects the country with the IP Geolocation API (https://ip-api.com/).
If no available language by country is found, the language of the browser is preferred. (https://polylang.pro/doc/detect-the-browser-preferred-language/) -
I found a bug, what shall I do?
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If you have found a bug in my plugin, please send me an email with a short description.
I will fix the bug as soon as possible. -
You like my plugin and you’d like to support me?
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Thank you very much!
In case you want to show how much you appreciate my work, I’d be very grateful if you could give me positive rating with WordPress-Page and/or donate a small amount to me.
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Contributors & Developers
“Polylang — Country Detection” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors“Polylang — Country Detection” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Polylang — Country Detection” into your language.
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Changelog
1.3.1
- Fix — Check if the class Polylang_Country_Detection already exists
1.3.0
- Feature — Anonymize the IP addresses from the client
- Dev — Changed the geolocation API from ip-api.com to iplocate.io
- Dev — Check compatibility with latest Polylang and WordPress Version
1.2.1
- Fix — Filter all non active languages
1.2.0
- Translation functionality added
1.1.0
- Fix — Lanaguage variable return issue
1.0.0
- Initial Release
- Check compatibility with latest Polylang and WordPress Version