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How to customize the names in the language switcher?

You can change the language name by modifying the full name of the language.

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My flags are not displayed on mobile devices

Some themes don’t use the orignal menu walker provided by WordPress but a custom menu walker to display navigation menus. It is quite frequent that theme developpers forget that plugins can add images...

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The title attribute displays the html code of the flag

Polylang intentionally keeps the title attribute empty for the language switcher. As this field is empty some themes copy the navigation label in this attribute. It’s a bad practice as it doesn’t add...

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My flags are misaligned in the Twenty Eleven menu

If you are using the flags provided with Polylang, just add the following css rule to the style.css file: #access img { display: inline; } It is much better to create a child theme to avoid loosing...

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How to display the widget flags horizontally?

The appearance of your site is controlled by CSS rules placed in the file style.css in your theme directory. The appearance of the language switcher is controlled by the classes “lang-item” for all...

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How to remove bullets in front of the flags?

You can add the following lines in the style.css file of your child theme: .lang-item { list-style: none; }

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The language switcher doesn’t appear on frontend

To avoid 404 errors, Polylang does not display a language if there is no published content (post or page) in that language. If there is no content in any language, then the language switcher does not...

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Can I display a language switcher without the widget?

It is possible to get a language switcher where you want in your theme without using the widget. For this, you can use  the following template tag in your theme: <ul><?php...

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Can I use my own flags for the language switcher?

Yes! Which file format can I use? You can use: PNG JPG SVG How should I name the files? Name them with the WordPress locale. That is to say the value which you can find in the column “Locale” in the...

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I can’t add the language switcher in the menus

In Appearance >Menus, click on screen options, top right of your screen, to expend the options and check the “Language switcher” checkbox. You should then see a new metabox in the “Add menu items”...

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