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Connect Polylang for Elementor

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Connect Polylang with Elementor: translated templates, language switcher widget, language visibility conditions and more

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What you get inside

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  • Add the language switcher in Elementor and customize its appearance.

  • Create and link translated pages directly inside Elementor.

  • Preview how the Polylang–Elementor language switcher looks on the frontend.

About this plugin

Connect Polylang multilingual plugin with Elementor Page Builder: Translate your Elementor templates and show them in the correct language, native customizable Language Switcher Elementor widget, Visibility Conditions of widgets and Dynamic Tags by language and much more…

What the Plugin Does

📍 Template translation and show in the correct language

Create translations for your Elementor templates especially for header, footer or archive templates with Elementor Pro Theme Builder (affiliated link).

  • Automatically selects the correct translation for “Template Widget”.
  • Automatically selects the correct translation for [elementor-template id="1234"] shortcodes.
  • Allow Elementor Kit translation for different settings for each language.

🔄 Language Switcher

A native Elementor Widget to easily build a nice and fully customizable language switcher:

  • Show or hide flags, language name, language code.
  • Vertical list, Horizontal list or styled dropdown.
  • SVG scalable flags.

👁️ Language Visibility Conditions

Allow to show or hide every widget, section or column by language.

🏷️ Language Dynamic Tags

Use language dynamic tags (on Elementor Pro) that you can set with an specific language or the “current” one. Available tags are:

  • Language Code tag type text
  • Language Name tag type text
  • Language Url tag type url
  • Language Flag tag type image

✏️ Elementor Editor integration

Now you can view the language of the current template and change to its translations or create them from the Elementor editor.

🔍 Elementor Finder integration

From Elementor Finder you can access to Polylang settings pages and go the site in the selected language.

🔨 Plugins integration fixes and tweaks

  • Automatically generate display conditions on new template translation.
  • Automatically generate Elementor CSS styles on create new template translation.
  • Fix home url to the current language on site-url Dynamic Tag and Search Form widget.
  • Add language url trailing slash.
  • Hide language on wp-admin for global widgets.
  • Other integration fixes.

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How to use

You can manage translated templates in two ways:

  • (recommended) create linked translations for a template and only set display conditions on the default language.
  • create separated translations for a template with their own display conditions.

See an example:

Site languages:
 - EN (main)
 - ES
 - IT

- Option 1 (linked translations only main language has display conditions):
╔═ Archive Template A (EN) -> condition category is "Red (EN)"
╠═ Archive Template A (ES) -> none (in front checks if category is ES translation of "Red (EN)")
╚═ Archive Template A (IT) -> none (in front checks if category is IT translation of "Red (EN)")

- Option 2 (not linked translations, all languages has display conditions):
══ Archive Template B (EN) -> condition category is "Red (EN)"
══ Archive Template B (ES) -> condition category is "Rojo (ES)"
══ Archive Template B (IT) -> condition category is "Rosso (IT)"

Support

  • Plugin’s support forum here on WordPress.org
  • Github plugin repo
  • Polylang User Community Group at Facebook
  • What is covered by our support? – All regarding THIS plugin (“Connect Polylang for Elementor”), plus the relation to Polylang, Polylang Pro, 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.!!!

Translations

We have used the strings of Elementor and Polylang whenever possible to take advantage of the fact that they are translated into many languages. For the other strings a .pot file (connect-polylang-elementor.pot) for translators is also always included 🙂

You can collaborate with your language translations in Translating WordPress

Credits

The following code/classes are licensed under the GPL.

Please, send your suggestions and feedback – Thank you for using or trying out this plugin!

Questions

Recommended Workflow?

  1. Setup Polylang at first, add at least TWO languages, one of them make your default language (in Polylang)
  2. 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 🙂
  3. After that setup an Elementor Theme Builder template – assign it to your Polylang default language, apply conditions in Elementor
  4. Next, setup a translation template for the template of 3.) — assign your second Polylang language, DO NOT apply conditions in Elementor

Where is the Elementor Widget to be found?

It’s in the widget category “General Elements” with the name “Language switcher”. 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! 😉

Where is the plugin’s settings page?

This plugin has NO settings page, as it does not need one. All it does works just under the hood. Activate the plugin. Done.

Is Elementor Pro required?

Technically, Elementor Pro is not required but highly recommended.

Elementor Pro (affiliate link) is required for these features of the plugin:

  • Translate Elementor Theme Builder Templates (header, footer, 404, page, archives).
  • Translate Elementor Popups.
  • Dynamic Tags, additionally added by the plugin.

For the other features of the plugin the free version of Elementor is sufficient – so the native Elementor language switcher widget will work 😉

Is Polylang Pro required?

Polylang Pro is not required.

All features of “Connect Polylang for Elementor” work with both, Polylang and Polylang Pro.

Are custom flags supported?

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.

Typography and uppercase settings?

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.

Other recommended plugins for multilingual websites?

There are quite a few:

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