[Edit: After reading the reply from the plugin author, explaining that there’s another plugin which constitutes a workaround to install the language switcher within FSE, I raised my review from 1 star to 2 stars. I still think the current free version is a dire experience for anyone using FSE, but it’s not totally broken.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After doing a lot of research on Multilingual plugins, Polylang seemed like a sensible choice for my project. I installed it on my site, which uses Twenty Twentyfive, to see how it works, but am completely stuck trying to get a language switcher to show so I can try out the free features of the plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I knew in advance that “FSE support” was somehow a paid feature, but I wanted to see for myself if the free version was truly as useless as that implied. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I understand if there are FSE features you want to require payment for. I think it’s a bad idea to punish people for using the latest features of WP, but I understand you would want to differentiate that way, and find conveniences related to FSE that you withhold in the free version. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But not having ANY way to add a language switcher in the default theme? It’s disastrous to the user experience. I just want to try out the plugin on my personal site, but because I am using Twenty Twentyfive, I have to pay full price just to see how it would work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Without the language switcher, the plugin is just confusing. I can’t see how my translated posts relate to each other, or test any of the features that in theory work in the free version. I also can’t test whether your support for FSE is any good without purchasing, so should I assume it works at all? Most reviews of Polylang don’t mention FSE at all because it’s new, being able to try it out myself is the only course of action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please: Make the free version compatible with FSE as a baseline, then find aspects of full FSE support that are reserved for the paid version.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n FSE is normal now, it should be possible to try out the plugin with an FSE site and see if it works before paying for the full version. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you and sorry for the negative review, but I think the experience of someone using the plugin with the default theme should be represented. I’ll be happy to change my review if the plugin starts working with the default themes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18734914","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-fse"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18734914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18734914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18735969,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18734914\/revisions\/18735969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18734914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}