Title: JSM User Locale Selector
Author: JS Morisset
Published: <strong>December 14, 2016</strong>
Last modified: May 18, 2026

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# JSM User Locale Selector

 By [JS Morisset](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jsmoriss/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/jsm-user-locale.2.2.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jsm-user-locale/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jsm-user-locale/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jsm-user-locale/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jsm-user-locale/)

## Description

Add a user locale drop-down menu item in the WordPress admin back-end admin and 
front-end toolbar menus.

Perfect for anyone that needs to switch languages quickly and easily – allows logged-
in users to change their preferred locale / language setting right from the toolbar
menu (instead of having to update their WordPress user profile page).

The default WordPress behavior is to apply the user locale preference to the admin
back-end only – this plugin extends the user locale / language preference to the
front-end webpage as well.

There are no plugin settings – simply install and activate the plugin.

#### Do you use the Polylang plugin?

If the Polylang plugin is active, the user locale menu will automatically use the
correct Polylang language URLs for the current webpage.

## Screenshots

[⌊An example user locale language selector in the WordPress front-end toolbar menu.⌉⌊
An example user locale language selector in the WordPress front-end toolbar menu
.⌉[

An example user locale language selector in the WordPress front-end toolbar menu.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Perfect!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-6549/)󠁿

 [Feriman](https://profiles.wordpress.org/feriman/) November 5, 2019

Works as expected!

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### 󠀁[Switch WordPress Administration Language](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switch-wordpress-administration-language/)󠁿

 [puosua](https://profiles.wordpress.org/puosua/) June 21, 2019

Language setting in user profile is missing in WordPress 5.2, this plugin enables
this function. Great job!

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### 󠀁[Effective](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/effective-76/)󠁿

 [Jeremy Varnham](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jvarn13/) September 26, 2018

A simple but effective plugin. The convenience of a quick admin language switcher
saves precious seconds. Thanks.

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### 󠀁[Perfect plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-plugin-574/)󠁿

 [VM06](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vm06/) August 29, 2018

This is the plugin I was looking for and was hard to find. It enables to get the
front language according to the language specified in user profile. Thanks again
for this great plugin. I hope you will keep it updated.

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### 󠀁[Really useful](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-useful-91/)󠁿

 [jomo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jonathanmoorebcsorg/) April 9, 2017 1 reply

Hi, I think this plugin is really useful, stable and reliable. I’ve been recommending
it in the BuddyPress forum and also now in my own translation helper plugin which
I designed to work with this: [link removed] So excellent, 5 stars.

 [ Read all 5 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jsm-user-locale/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“JSM User Locale Selector” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ JS Morisset ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jsmoriss/)

“JSM User Locale Selector” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/jsm-user-locale/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “JSM User Locale Selector” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/jsm-user-locale)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jsm-user-locale/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/jsm-user-locale/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/jsm-user-locale/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/jsm-user-locale/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

### Version Numbering

Version components: `{major}.{minor}.{bugfix}[-{stage}.{level}]`

 * {major} = Major structural code changes and/or incompatible API changes (ie. 
   breaking changes).
 * {minor} = New functionality was added or improved in a backwards-compatible manner.
 * {bugfix} = Backwards-compatible bug fixes or small improvements.
 * {stage}.{level} = Pre-production release: dev < a (alpha) < b (beta) < rc (release
   candidate).

### Repositories

 * [GitHub](https://jsmoriss.github.io/jsm-user-locale/)
 * [WordPress.org](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jsm-user-locale/)

### Changelog / Release Notes

**Version 2.2.1 (2023/07/08)**

 * **New Features**
    - None.
 * **Improvements**
    - None.
 * **Bugfixes**
    - None.
 * **Developer Notes**
    - Minor code optimization and standardization:
       * Replaced `{get|update|delete}_{comment|post|term|user}_meta()` functions
         by `{get|update|delete}_metadata()`.
 * **Requires At Least**
    - PHP v7.4.33.
    - WordPress v6.0.

## Meta

 *  Version **2.2.1**
 *  Last updated **1 month ago**
 *  Active installations **30+**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.0**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4.33 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jsm-user-locale/), [French (Belgium)](https://fr-be.wordpress.org/plugins/jsm-user-locale/),
   [French (Canada)](https://fr-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/jsm-user-locale/), and 
   [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/jsm-user-locale/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/jsm-user-locale)
 * Tags
 * [language](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/language/)[locale](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/locale/)
   [polylang](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/polylang/)[select](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/select/)
   [user](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/user/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jsm-user-locale/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ JS Morisset ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jsmoriss/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jsm-user-locale/)