Wordpress and qTranslate - getting current language in functions.php

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Deez picture Deez · Mar 24, 2014 · Viewed 10.6k times · Source

I am using qTranslate plugin with my Wordpress site and now I have to detect the active language in the themes functions.php file. The detection function qtrans_getLanguage() is working, however, it always shows the default language (en) as active, even though I have it switched in the page itself. How can I detect the language in function file?

Answer

toto_tico picture toto_tico · Sep 30, 2015

This worked for me:

if (qtrans_getLanguage() == 'en') {
  // english
  print "Hello world!"; 
} elseif (qtrans_getLanguage() == 'es') {
  // spanish
  print "Hola Mundo!"; 
}

Notice that this has changed in qTranslate X (the new version):

if (qtranxf_getLanguage() == 'en') {
  // english
  print "Hello world!"; 
} elseif (qtranxf_getLanguage() == 'es') {
  // spanish
  print "Hola Mundo!";
}

There is also some compatibility functions in the plugin options according to this

To apply this code you need some PHP knowledge, it is used to translate exact parts of your Wordpress Theme

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