Quick and easy locale / language / region selector for the WordPress admin toolbar.
As of April 2026, WPSSO User Locale Selector is a WordPress locale plugin with 50 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 20K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4.33+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: Bogo.
Provides a convenient locale / language / region selector in the WordPress admin toolbar.
Perfect for anyone that needs to switch languages quickly and easily:
Allows logged-in users to easily change their preferred locale / language / region setting right from the toolbar menu, instead of having to modify their user profile settings.
The default behavior of WordPress is to apply the user locale preference to the admin back-end only – the WPSSO User Locale Selector add-on can optionally extend the locale preference to the front-end webpage as well.
If the Polylang plugin is detected, the locale selector will automatically use the correct Polylang language URLs.
WPSSO User Locale Selector is an add-on for the WPSSO Core plugin, wh…
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4.33+ required |
| Dependencies | wpsso |
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