Your website in several languages
Language Switcher makes the website multilingual with linked pages, a language switcher and hreflang for search engines. Pro adds more languages, a domain per language, translation of menus, the theme and the slideshows – and every text can be edited directly on the website.
In WordPress the plugin is called Datoden Language Switcher – in the DT-addons menu it is listed as DT-language.
DT-language makes your website multilingual. The main language stays on the website's usual address, and every other language gets its own address such as /en/ – or, with Pro, its own domain. Each page is linked to its translations, and visitors switch language with a switcher in the menu.
On the Languages tab you give each language a name, a code and a WordPress language. The main language uses the usual address and the second language an address on the same domain, such as /en/. Removing a language keeps its pages.
The page and post lists get a Language column. Click + EN next to a page and a copy opens, ready to be translated. Existing translations show a pencil, and the Translations together button lists a page and its translations one after the other.
The language switcher is placed last in the menu. You choose where it goes and how it looks: a globe and language code with a drop-down, or all language codes side by side (SV / EN). It is also available as the [datoden_language_switcher] shortcode.
The front page, its sections, the contact page and the privacy page show their translations automatically. A page opened on the wrong language address is redirected to the right one.
The plugin adds hreflang links between language versions, sets the right language in <html lang> and shows WordPress' own texts in the visitor's language. It creates no extra tables and loads nothing from other servers.
With Pro you add more than two languages with Add language and choose Address on this domain or Own domain for each one – for example example.com for English. Switch from /en/ to a domain and the old addresses move there automatically (301).
On the Menus tab you pick a separate menu per language and menu location. In Appearance → Customize you choose the language at the top and translate the theme's texts, the site title, the tagline and the menu labels. In DT-slideshow you choose the language at the top of the slideshow.
Turn on Edit texts in the admin bar, click any text and type – Enter saves, Esc cancels. The change applies to the language you are viewing, wherever the same text appears, and the Texts on the page tab lists every change and lets you reset it.
Everything without a Pro label works for free. What is marked Pro is included in the Pro version.
After installing – how to set up Language Switcher.
Go to DT-addons → DT-language in the WordPress menu. The Languages tab shows the main language on the website's usual address.
Click + Add language and fill in the name, code and WordPress language, plus the address – for example en in the field for an address on this domain.
Go to Pages and click + EN next to a page. A copy opens for you to translate and publish.
Make sure Language switcher in the menu is on, then choose Place and Look. Changes are saved automatically.
Pro builds on the free version – it stays as the base, with all your settings, and Pro adds the rest.
Everything in the free version, plus:
Choose how many websites and how you want to buy. Prices exclude VAT – VAT is calculated at checkout.
The licence follows your Datoden account – no key to paste.
The purchase is saved on your Datoden account as soon as the payment has gone through.
Get the Pro plugin under My account → My purchases → Licences.
Drop the zip file on Website Guard. Pro is added on top of the free version – everything you have done stays.
Connect the website in Website Guard. The Pro updates then arrive as ordinary WordPress updates.
The pages in that language are kept. Only the language is removed from the settings.
Yes, with Pro. When you switch to Own domain, the old /en/ addresses move to the domain automatically with a 301 redirect.
The domain must show this website – as a domain pointer or alias, not a redirect – and have https. Until then, use the address on this domain.
No. Without one, the main language's menu is used and its pages lead to their translations. Choose a separate menu under Menus (Pro) if a language needs different links.
Use the [datoden_language_switcher] shortcode in a text, block or widget.
Nothing stops working. A purchase never runs out, and when a subscription ends the plugins keep every function – only the updates from Datoden stop.
The first number in the version. A purchase includes every update in that major version, for example all 1.x versions. A new major version (2.0) comes about once a year with clearly new features and comes at a discount as an upgrade. A subscription always includes it.
Websites connected to your Datoden account with a Pro plugin switched on, in the order they were connected. Disconnect a website in My websites to move the licence to another.
No. The website is connected to your Datoden account with Website Guard, and Datoden knows which updates your licences include.
Yes. Deactivate Pro – the free version keeps running with the same settings. Functions that only exist in Pro stop, but nothing is deleted.
Yes. Pro is an add-on: the free version stays installed and active as the base and is updated from WordPress.org as usual, and Pro adds the Pro features on top. On WordPress.org the free versions are called Datoden …, for example Datoden Language Switcher.
Prices exclude VAT. VAT is calculated at checkout from your country. Companies in other EU countries can enter their VAT number.
Your licences, websites and downloads are under My account → My purchases → Licences.
