Plugin / Polylang Connect for Elementor – Language Switcher & Template Tweaks
David Decker - DECKERWEB
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
At best in our Polylang User Community Group at Facebook – highly recommended for all users of this plugin!
Additionally, we also monitor the plugin’s support forum here on WordPress.org as well – but our preferred support channel is the FB community group.
What is covered by our support? – All things regarding THIS plugin (“Polyang Connect for Elementor”), plus the relation to Polylang, Elementor and Elementor Pro of course.
What is NOT covered by support? – Anything general regarding multilingual topics and WordPress. Explicitely we DO NOT offer any “WPML”, “WPBakery” or “Visual Composer” support, and also not for your theme etc.!!!
Yes, there is.
See live demo on co-author’s own website
Plus: bigger versions of the above screenshots are in this external gallery 😉
Setup Polylang at first, add at least TWO languages, one of them make your default language (in Polylang)
Add content to your default Polylang language – if Polylang asks you to apply existing content to it, you should most likely click “ok” and proceed – it works really fine 🙂
After that setup an Elementor Theme Builder template – asign it to your Polylang default language, apply conditions in Elementor
Next, setup a translation template for the template of 3.) — asign your second Polylang language, DO NOT apply conditions in Elementor
If you have issues with proper display of your translated templates, pages, content it is recommended to check your settings:
In Polylang Settings at Languages > Settings > URL Modificatons set to the following option: “The language is set from the directory name in pretty permalinks” (see screenshot)
And in the case, all is working well with your current settings then please do not touch them. The above recommendation can be necessary for some users/ installs but not necessarily for all.
It most likely will work totally fine if you follow our recommended workflow (see above). If not, please ask in our FB user group.
Every page/ post/ template must be assigned a language for this to work. This is standard Polylang procedure but it should be noted in case “it doesnt work”.
Also, for Elementor Templates, the post type must be enabled for Polylang support: Go to Polylang > Settings > Custom post types and Taxonomies, enable the “My Templates” post type (Elementor).
It’s in the widget category “General Elements”. Plus, if Elementor Pro is active and you’re editing a template, the widget additionally appears in the “Site” widget category.
Always via search: When searching for widgets type “polylang” or “languages” and it will show up immediately! 😉
This plugin has NO settings page, as it does not need one. All it does works just under the hood. Activate the plugin. Done.
(If there will be settings needed in the future, we might add options in later plugin versions.)
Technically, Elementor Pro is not required – but highly recommended, though.
Elementor Pro is required for these features of the plugin:
Translating Elementor Theme Builder Templates the version is required, otherwise this will not work.
Dynamic Tags, additionally added by the plugin
For the other features of the plugin the regular free version of Elementor is sufficient – so the native Elementor language switcher widget will work also that way already 😉
Yes, it is! 🙂
All features of “Polylang Connect for Elementor” work with both, Polylang (free) AND Polylang Pro (Premium).
In general, custom flags are supported in the Polylang Switcher Elementor widget and in the Dynamic Tag (Current Language Flag).
However, the default flags in Polylang are sized 16px wide and 11px high, this automatically applies to custom flags – as it is fully handled internally by Polylang.
To use a different size for custom flags we are trying to find ways to implement this for Elementor in future versions of this plugin.
In the Polylang Switcher Elementor widget there are typography settings available for the Switcher menu items. These settings are CSS based of course, and applied “globally” to the various states they are for: normal, hover, active (current language). The available toggles for uppercase are done code-wise and therefore have a lower priority – this means the CSS always takes over, if wanted. That way you are most flexible with quick settings (toggles) but have all styling options at hand if needed.
Yes, it is. Otherwise this connect plugin won’t do anything. Elementor is available for free on WordPress.org.
The Elementor Pro Add-On plugin is needed for the Theme Builder capabilities (for example Header templates), plus the feature of “Dynamic Tags”. So it is highly recommended. But if it is not installed/ activated, the depending features from the connect plugin won’t even load. So it is all optional.
The language switcher widget only needs Elementor base plugin to work 😉
There are quite a few:
Country Flags for Elementor – Native Elementor widget
Polylang Pro (Premium) – The official premium version with more features, plus premium support
Polylang for WooCommerce (Premium) – Makes WooCommerce multilingual – official Polylang Add-On
Lingotek Translation – Native Polylang integration – Lingotek brings convenient cloud-based localization and translation for WordPress
Integrate Gravity Forms + Polylang – Add form titles, descriptions, field labels, etc. to Polylang string translations
WPML to Polylang – From the Polylang developer himself
English – default, always included
German (de_DE): Deutsch – immer dabei! 🙂
For custom and update-safe language files please upload them to /wp-content/languages/connect-polylang-elementor/ (just create this folder) – This enables you to use fully custom translations that won’t be overridden on plugin updates. Also, complete custom English wording is possible with that as well, just use a language file like connect-polylang-elementor-en_US.mo/.po to achieve that (for creating one see the following tools).
Easy WordPress.org plugin translation platform with GlotPress platform: Translate “Polylang Connect for Elementor”…
Note: All my plugins are internationalized/ translateable by default. This is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful. For translating and validating I recommend the awesome “Poedit Editor”, which works fine on Windows, macOS and Linux.
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Version
1.0.0
First Released
28 Nov, 2018
Total Downloads
44,518
Wordpress Version
4.7 or higher
Tested up to:
5.3
Require PHP Version:
5.6 or higher
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