The Bilingual Categories Hack

Relabels default categories as “languages” and makes them available on pages.

Description

This plugin is a hack. It requires that you set up your categories in WordPress as languages, i.e.:

• English (slug: en)
• Deutsch (slug: de)

It then

• relabels categories as languages (props @janfabry!)
• makes them available on pages
• when the current category is de:
  • sets locale to de_DE
  • reloads the default textdomain in the front-end

In order to reload your theme’s textdomain “on the fly” as well, you would currently need to hook your call of load_theme_textdomain to the glckPress_bilingual_categories__reload_textdomain hook. Try putting something like this in your theme’s functions.php:

function yourprefix_load_textdomain() {

    load_theme_textdomain( 'your_theme_textdomain', 'your_theme_language_subdir' );
}
add_action( 'glckPress_bilingual_categories__reload_textdomain', 'yourprefix_load_textdomain' );

Feel free to use, but know what you’re doing!

Installation

Requirements

• WordPress 3.8.1
• PHP 5.3

Installation

If you don’t know how to install a plugin for WordPress, leave now.

Settings

• There is no settings page.
• The plugin requires the default category to be en and an alternate one to be de.
• You can hack glckprss-bilingual-categories.php to modify settings.
• There might occur a performance load if you try to add more than 1 secondary language (primary=English) and then switch from one secondary language to the other.

To Do

• Add a settings page if anything.

Changelog

2014.03

• Added action hook glckPress_bilingual_categories__reload_textdomain.

2014.02

• Renamed class GlckPress_Label_Categories into GlckPress_Bilingual_Categories.

2014.01

• Alpha Release.