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Author: Sam Wong

If your want to present your blog in different languages (totally with title, rss, categories working, not just the post) and allows visitors to pick the language they want, this plugin is for you.

xLanguage is a full featured plugin allows you to blog in different language, and allows user to select which version to read. It works for blog post, page, tags, categories. The user language preferences will also select the right theme and plugins MO files.

Customization is the No. 1 design goal, after all that's probably the reason why you want to setup a multilingual blog. The language configuration combination is highly customizable to facilitate multiple fallbacks. Every UI is extracted out, which could be optionally overridden by theme design without touching the plugin file at all.

This plugin works by inserting W3C standardized tag in the post content, and a XML parser will be involved to extract them when served, extracting all elements with the matching lang=".." tag. The permalinks and RSS feeds are also presented correctly. For single line data such as post title, a special but simple syntax is introduced.

The language preference is detected from browser's preferences, as well as from Cookie if user visited before. Widget and template functions are also provided to allow user to switch the language easily. The presentation of the template functions can also be customized in your theme folder without touching the code in the plugins.

See Other Notes for the comparisons against similar plugins.

Usage Guide

For complete usage guide, please refer to my blog page. Also see my blog for live demostration.

There are some known problems and limitations, please make sure you are aware of those.