Language Switcher
Add a Language Switcher to Menus, Post Types and Taxonomies.
4(7 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 7 months agoAs of April 2026, Language Switcher is a WordPress language plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4/5 rating from 7 reviews. It has been downloaded 70K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Downloads are down 24% this week. Top alternative: Loco Translate.
4/57 reviews
1.0K+active installs
70K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
Language Switcher allows you to map urls of alternative languages for Post Types and Taxonomies. Additionally it allows you to filter archive pages by language.
Support Forum
For quicker support on this plugin go to: https://code.recuweb.com/support/forum/wordpress-plugins/language-switcher/
Free Features
- STANDALONE – No WordPress Multisite required
- MIXED SOURCES – map internal or external urls
- POST TYPE LANGUAGE – Add a main language selector to post types and map urls of alternative languages
- TAXONOMY LANGUAGE – Add a main language selector to terms and map urls of alternative languages
- HREFLANG LINKS – Add hreflang links into the head of each page and improve the SEO
- MENU LANGUAGE – Add a main language selector to the menu settings and switch the menu accordingly
- LANGUAGE FILTERS – Fi…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Perfect
by bartelby·11 months ago
The plugin works very well and support is perfect.
Thank you.
Great Support
by olimpos92·3 years ago
Great Support from Author. It works fine.
Good but heavily bugged
by inuya5ha·5 years ago·1 reply
This plugin would be just perfect if it had its bugs fixed. It seems to perform some language detection with session cookies that constantly introduces errors, such as all pages being shown as language:English in both the site and the admin panel.
Broke my website
by gdvine·5 years ago
Installed, activated, and turned on the menu switcher on my main nav.
- The plugin replaced (?) several menu items with its switcher menu item.
- Soon thereafter, the entire front end of the site died. Wouldn’t even load anything at all, so likely a PHP issue or incompatibility. Deactivating took everything back to normal.
Really too bad, as I could use this plugin’s functionality.
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by Nomex·5 years ago·1 reply
A super simple and useful plugin. Is it possible to add a photo of language flags? Such a visual option would definitely be great.
Download Trends
Today: 19Yesterday: 17This week: 136Period total: 16K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.8
74.5%
v3.7
15.2%
v3.2
5.4%
Other
4.8%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.2.2 – 14/10/2020
- Locales implemented
Contributors
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