Use different PHP templates for different languages | WordPress.org

David M.
(@david-m)

9 years ago

I’ve been tasked to create the translation of an existing site, and I found a terribly non-standard theme, with a slider and CTAs in the homepage that Polylang (and other translation plugins) can’t translate: it’s not done with widgets or something like that, instead it’s all custom settings that do not show up in the Polylang chain translation page.

I wonder if there is some way, using the template hierarchy or some template tag, of executing different theme templates in the same page in different languages. Something equivalent to this:

front-page-spanish.php
front-page-english.php

Or something like a is_language() template tag…

Changing the theme template for the translated version is the only way I think I can bypass the terrible theme options. Is there anything I can do? Thanks for Polylang!

https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/

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Plugin Support Chrystl
(@chrystl)

9 years ago

Hello

If it’s in your theme options did you try that: https://polylang.wordpress.com/documentation/documentation-for-developers/the-wpml-language-configuration-file/

or pll_register_string and pll__.

Thread Starter David M.
(@david-m)

9 years ago

Thanks Chrystl!

The wmpl-config file is not in the theme, but I took a look at the functions in the page you link and I think that pll_current_language() could do what I want to do: detect the current language inside the PHP template and, using an if statement, run different code depending on the language. I will try that.

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