Bogo

Solid multilingual plugin for simple projects like brochure site or blog.

There are many action hooks and filters for developers to use. Despite the lack of comments, they’re relatively easy to understand.

I learned about this plugin a day ago. Tested the plugin today. It just works! Choosing another language in a page creates a copy, and you can edit the page or post as you wish. The BOGO shortcode works immediately, so the reader can switch from one language to another. I just wonder why everyone else makes a language plugin / switcher so difficult!

Okay, the menu and footer remain the same when changing language, but for a simple multi-language site and using as many international terms as possible, it’s the perfect language plugin!

• This topic was modified 6 months ago by basbuis.
• This topic was modified 6 months ago by basbuis.

Thank you, Takayuki Miyoshi. Bogo is exactly what developers crave: minimal, transparent, and fast. No custom DB tables, one post per language, clean URLs, simple switcher—built on top of WordPress’ native localization.
From a Developer standpoint, it extends naturally (clean hooks), plays nicely with ACF/CPT, and the [bogo] shortcode gets you running fast—then you can build a custom language selector for full control.

Only gripe: documentation is thin; many filters/entry points are discoverable only by reading the source. A concise official guide (hooks overview, CPT/taxonomy examples) would make Bogo unbeatable for developers.

Bottom line: for code-first teams, Bogo is fresh air compared to bulky suites: it does a few things, does them well, and stays out of your way.

The language selector is too basic. There are some websites that describe how to customize the selector, but it’s quite complicated. Also, you have to repeat this customization after every template update, so it should be possible to change the look of the selector in Bogo’s configuration. It’s also quite difficult to position the selector in the navigation bar so that it doesn’t destroy the whole layout.

The plugin lacks many options that competitors have:

1. No option to enable/disable language flags.
2. No ability to enable/disable language labels.
3. There is no possibility to set the layout of language icons themselves. They only appear as a vertical list. This is inconvenient for menus. You can’t put them in a row. I had to rewrite the plugin code.
4. There is no possibility to enable/disable detection of the user’s browser language, so that the pages would be displayed in the required language for the person.