wp-current-language

Library/helper for determining the current language selected (different multilingual plugins)

Deprecated

This repository has been deprecated because it is sufficient to use get_locale() for retrieving the current locale across different language plugins.

Note:

There is a confusion over 'Language' and 'Locale'. A 'Locale', in some plugins also called '(Language) Code', is more precise and standardized (e.g. 'en_US', 'en_GB' or 'fr_FR', 'fr_CA') while 'Language' is usually expected to be just the primary language part of the Locale or even the full name of language derived from the Locale ('en' or 'fr' - 'English', 'French' described in some plugins - for the previously given examples).

Whether all these plugins properly return the locale in the same format has to be determined yet (see TODO below).

Should this explanation itself be too inaccurate or you think can be further improved, feel free to create an issue so this can be fixed!

Helper usage:

get_current_locale()

List of multilingual plugins and functions for current language

Polylang

Supports the WPML style ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE constant and additionally exposes its own function pll_current_language(name, locale or slug).

WPML

Stores the current locale in ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE.

qtranslate-x

Recent versions:

qtranxf_getLanguage()

Older versions (qtranslate without the 'x'?):

qtrans_getLanguage() Compatibility code in recent version

Babble

bbl_get_current_lang()->code

Multilingual Press

(Relevant issue: https://github.com/inpsyde/MultilingualPress/issues/263)

Current release

(global namespace): mlp_get_current_blog_language($short = FALSE)

Newer release

(Inpsyde\MultilingualPress namespace): Inpsyde\MultilingualPress\get_current_site_language($language_only)

Transposh

transposh_get_current_language()

xili-language

xili_curlang()

the_curlang() (soon obsolete according to source comment)

Lingotek Translation

Seems to use Polylang.

Plugin not listed here?

Please create an issue and tell me!

TODO:

• Returned locale normalization (if required).