Title: Changing the locale Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Changing the locale * Resolved [Philstix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philstix/) * (@philstix) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-the-locale/) * I’m now using WP Photo Album Plus with qTranslate for a site in English, Dutch, German and French. I’m extremely impressed with the amount of thought and effort you have put into this plugin. * I use the qTranslate dropdown control to switch languages, so that for example the url of `http://mysite/info` will automatically change to `http://mysite/nl/ info` when I switch from English to Dutch. * If I run WP Photo Album Plus without subsequently changing languages it’s fine– it detects the locale and uses that to display text in the correct language. * The problem is that if I then change the locale with qTranslate’s dropdown control WP Photo Album Plus doesn’t detect the change and stays in the same language that applied when it was started. * So if I’m displaying the photo gallery page in Dutch the url is `http://mysite/ nl/photo-gallery/` and if I then start a slideshow from that page the url becomes` http://mysite/nl/photo-gallery/?locale=nl_NL&wppa-album=3&wppa-slide&wppa-occur =2&wppa-photo=20` and the slideshow starts with Dutch text displayed correctly. * If during the slideshow I change the locale, say from Dutch to German, the url changes to `http://mysite/de/photo-gallery/?locale=nl_NL&wppa-album=3&wppa-slide& wppa-occur=2&wppa-photo=20` so that the rest of the page is in German but the slideshow text is still in Dutch. * Is there any way I can make WP Photo Album Plus dynamically change its locale while a slide show is running? * I have tried both the old and new shortcode / script alternatives without success. I was hoping there might be a locale attribute to set the locale but I couldn’t see anything in the reference pages. Is there perhaps some php I could run in a foreign shortcode to change the locale? * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-photo-album-plus/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-photo-album-plus/) Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Plugin Author [Jacob N. Breetvelt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opajaap/) * (@opajaap) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-the-locale/#post-3255613) * > Is there any way I can make WP Photo Album Plus dynamically change its locale > while a slide show is running? * No, that is not possible as the slideshow data is already local, changing the slide is entirely done with js, using the data in the language the page was created. * Why would one want to change the language there? Is this a pure academic issue or does it have any practical use? * Thread Starter [Philstix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philstix/) * (@philstix) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-the-locale/#post-3255614) * No this is not academic, it is relevant to the site I’m developing. * The user is free to change the language at any time using the qTranslate dropdown control. That causes a different version of the page to be loaded, one with a different language and a different url. The same WP Photo Album Plus shortcode is in each version of the page. * I thought that when I changed the language while a slide show was running that the slideshow would stop (because I’m opening a different page) and the shortcode in the new page would cause a new slideshow to start, taking the locale of the new page. It seems that either the original slideshow keeps running or, if a new slideshow is started by the new page, it uses the locale set by the first page. * Thread Starter [Philstix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philstix/) * (@philstix) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-the-locale/#post-3255615) * I’ve done a bit more testing with it, and it looks like it does start a new slideshow running, but it keeps the old locale setting. * Plugin Author [Jacob N. Breetvelt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opajaap/) * (@opajaap) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-the-locale/#post-3255616) * This makes sense. I will see if i can change the priority of searching for a locale such that if one is set (by qTranslate) it should have precedence over the locale in the querystring. * To be continued… * Thread Starter [Philstix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philstix/) * (@philstix) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-the-locale/#post-3255619) * I’ve come up with a workaround for the problem. * I renamed each album using qTranslate shortcodes of the form: `[:en]English Title[:nl]Dutch Title[:de]German Title[:fr]French Title’ in the album title input box. * Then I changed the way I loaded the slideshow by using WPPA+ scripts instead of shortcodes, and referring to the album by the localised name instead of by number: English page: %%wppa%% %%slide=”$English Title”%% Dutch page: %%wppa%%%% slide=”$Dutch Title”%% German page: %%wppa%% %%slide=”$German Title”%% French page: %%wppa%% %%slide=”$French Title”%% * I also had to disable the WPPA+ link from the album cover photo I’m using, and manually create links to each slideshow page to make sure it went to the page with the correct locale. * It’s a workaround rather than a solution, but it gets the job done 🙂 * Thanks again for this wonderful plugin. * Plugin Author [Jacob N. Breetvelt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opajaap/) * (@opajaap) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-the-locale/#post-3255623) * > That causes a different version of the page to be loaded, one with a different > language and a different url. The same WP Photo Album Plus shortcode is in > each version of the page. * This is not needed, you can have all languages in one page. * > I renamed each album using qTranslate shortcodes of the form: > [:en]English Title[:nl]Dutch Title[:de]German Title[:fr]French Title’ in the > album title input box. * This is how you should do it. * > English page: %%wppa%% %%slide=”$English Title”%% > Dutch page: %%wppa%% %%slide > =”$Dutch Title”%% German page: %%wppa%% %%slide=”$German Title”%% French page:%% > wppa%% %%slide=”$French Title”%% * This is not recommended, numbers should do. * I did some testing in my docs site: [http://wppa.opajaap.nl/](http://wppa.opajaap.nl/) and can not reproduce the problem. I tested with the qTranslate settings (advanced) Query mode (my default) and pre-path (as it is now) but both ways work. I also tested it with and without `&locale=...` : i removed: * ``` // if ( $wppa_locale ) { // if ( $key == 'js' ) $pl .= 'locale='.$wppa_locale.'&'; // else $pl .= 'locale='.$wppa_locale.'&'; // } ``` * from wppa-functions.php in the routine `function wppa_get_permalink()` as it seems to be redundant and it shortens the permalink. Still correct behaviour. 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