Bilingual Linker

The purpose of this plugin is to allow users to add a link to a translation version of a page or post in the admin and print this link on their blog, on a single post or or a page. You can try it out in a temporary copy of WordPress here.

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1. Download the plugin
2. Upload entire bilingual-linker folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. Activate the plugin in the Wordpress Admin
4. Add links to posts or pages in the Wordpress editor
5. Use the OutputBilingualLink function in the loop to display a link to the item translation.

OutputBilingualLink($post_id, $linktext, $beforelink, $afterlink); When using in The Loop in any template, you can use $post->ID as the first argument to pass the current post ID being processed.

2.3.7

• Modification so header links always have trailing slash

2.3.6

• Fix to output proper hreflang for the current page language. E.g. Was previously outputting de_DE instead of only de for German

2.3.5

• Added output to page header to show alternate link for current page language

2.3.4

• Add new option to be able to specify a custom coded condition to not display translation link

2.3.3

• Change to address missing scripts in admin pages

2.3.2

• Adds language selection option in menu builder to be able to create menu items for multiple languages
• Adds text name to menu items in menu builder to facilitate managing multiple Bilingual Linker menu items

2.3.1

• Fixed issue with adding Bilingual Linker menu in Menu editor

2.3

• Added alternate language tags to page header based on user suggestion

2.2.4

• Correction in donation link

2.2.3

• Added support to display translation link when posts page is not front page

2.2.2

• Code fix to use bilingual link set in page editor if page is used as site front page

2.2.1

• Fix for Bilingual Linker Menu item

2.2

• Added support for custom post type archive pages

2.1.2

• Fix for potential XSS vulnerability

2.1.1

• Fix for menu items all showing translation link

2.1

• Added new item in WordPress menu builder to be able to easily add Bilingual Linker link to menu

2.0.8

• Modified the_bilingual_linker function so it can accept arguments as an array
• Added new option url_only that only echoes or returns the translation URL. This option is only available when sending options as an array.

2.0.7

• Corrected issue preventing users from specifying HTML in link test, before and after fields in admin panel

2.0.6

• Corrected issue with new menu suppression options

2.0.5

• Added options to hide translation link on front page, search page, archive pages and category pages

2.0.4

• Added option to be able to hide translation links on pages that don't have a translation

2.0.3

• Added shortcode [the-bilingual-link]
• Added field to configure hreflang

2.0.2

• Corrected PHP Warnings

2.0.1

• Corrected problem with category meta table creation code

2.0

• Added support for multiple languages
• Added ability to assign translation links to categories
• Translation display link now works on all page types (front page, archives, search results, categories, tag)
• Created new display function (the_bilingual_link)

1.2.3

• Added option to specify whether the link should be echoed or sent as a function return value

1.2.2

• Added option to OutputBilingualLink to be able to provide a default URL to display if no translation link is found

1.2.1

• Fixed problem with posts extra field getting deleted

1.2

• Updated Bilingual Linker to support network installations
• Changed data storage method to use post meta data instead of custom table

1.1

• Added code to display Bilingual Linker on all post types, not only on posts and pages

1.0

• Initial functionality
• Ability to add custom link for translated text in post and page editors
• Ability to query this address from Wordpress theme