Version Information
- Plugin Name: JSM User Locale Selector
- Stable Version: 2.2.1
- Author: JS Morisset
- Description: Add a quick and easy user locale / language selector in the WordPress admin back-end and front-end toolbar menus.
- License: GPLv3
- Requires PHP: 7.2.34 or newer
- Requires WordPress: 5.8 or newer
- Tested Up To WordPress: 6.6.1
- Last Updated: 3 months ago
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.
An example user locale language selector in the WordPress front-end toolbar menu.
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
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().
- Replaced
- Minor code optimization and standardization:
- Requires At Least
- PHP v7.2.34.
- WordPress v5.8.
Version 2.2.0 (2021/11/26)
- New Features
- None.
- Improvements
- None.
- Bugfixes
- None.
- Developer Notes
- Removed the minimum WP version check.
- Requires At Least
- PHP v7.2.34.
- WordPress v5.5.
Version 2.1.0 (2021/11/15)
- New Features
- None.
- Improvements
- None.
- Bugfixes
- None.
- Developer Notes
- Refactored the
JSM_User_Locale->add_locale_toolbar()method.
- Refactored the
- Requires At Least
- PHP v7.2.
- WordPress v5.2.
Version 2.0.0 (2020/10/15)
Maintenance release.
- New Features
- None.
- Improvements
- Added a call to switch_to_locale() on the front-end.
- Bugfixes
- None.
- Developer Notes
- None.
- Requires At Least
- PHP v7.0.
- WordPress v5.2.
Works as expected!
Language setting in user profile is missing in WordPress 5.2, this plugin enables this function. Great job!
A simple but effective plugin. The convenience of a quick admin language switcher saves precious seconds. Thanks.
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.
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.