Title: How do I create a "dynamic" link?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# How do I create a "dynamic" link?

 *  [Pena47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pena47/)
 * (@pena47)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-dynamic-link/)
 * So, the title is potentially misleading as I’m not sure the term “dynamic link”
   is appropriate.
 * I have a website created in wordpress with a navigation bar at the top, which
   is visible on every page that you visit. The links are “static”, they do not 
   change from page to page. So, for example, you might see mysite.com/aboutus as
   one of the links in the navigation menu.
 * I also set up a plugin (qtranslate, but that’s not too important) to change the
   language by essentially providing a copy of each page in Spanish. So going to
   mysite.com/aboutus/?lang=es changes it to Spanish. Now as you navigate it adds/?
   lang=es to each page you visit, so the entire site remains in Spanish as you 
   navigate around.
 * Here’s the issue, the first time you click the link (located in the navigation
   bar and visible on every page) it takes you back to the homepage to change the
   language, because the link is “static”. So clicking on Spanish takes you back
   to mysite.com/?lang=es. I want to make that link “dynamic” so that it changes
   relative to the page your viewing. So if you’re viewing the about us page at 
   mysite.com/aboutus and you switch to Spanish it takes you to mysite.com/aboutus/?
   lang=es and not the home page in Spanish.
 * As the link is in the navigation bar, the same link appears on every page, so
   I cannot manually set the link for every page (it would also be very time consuming
   just because of the number of pages).
 * So in other words, how can I make the link go to mysite.com/[current page]/?lang
   =es?
 * Thank you all.
 * [on a somewhat related side note, I posted the same question earlier, but the
   phrasing was rather horrible, and I’m not sure anyone would have gathered what
   I was trying to ask. As I could not delete or edit, I simply marked it “resolved”
   and wrote a (hopefully) more understandable question.]

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 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-dynamic-link/#post-2150509)
 * Check out the [Bilingual Linker](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bilingual-linker/)
   plug-in – it may do what you want.
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-dynamic-link/#post-2150511)
 * On second thought, if you’re already using qtranslate, this other plug-in may
   be redundant. I’d encourage you to add “qtranslate” as a tag so the plug-in author
   may find this post more easily as this does seem like a feature that may already
   be built into qtranslate. Have you already tried contacting the qtranslate developer?
 *  Thread Starter [Pena47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pena47/)
 * (@pena47)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-dynamic-link/#post-2150535)
 * Well I added the tag, and I have posted on the qtranslate forums. I’ve looked
   pretty thoroughly through the settings on qtranslate and feel there is no option
   to do what I want to do, although it does include a widget that can be added 
   to the sidebar of each page. I’d much rather have the links in the navigation
   bar at the top though, I just need them to follow the format: mysite.com/[current
   page]/?lang=es?

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