Language selector abbreviation and menu location

Forget about 1, I just found out that I can simply change the name from English to EN. What about 2 though? ??

Hi

You will find your answer in the Polylang FAQ: https://polylang.wordpress.com/documentation/frequently-asked-questions/

You are right, thank you. I’m experiencing some problems though.

<?php pll_default_language(‘de_DE’=>1); ?>
<?php pll_default_language(de_DE); ?>
Both don’t work. What’s my mistake here?

As explanation, I’d like a custom menu that looks like this:

DE | EN | TR

With the abbreviations being the links. So I thought this could be done in this way:

<?php pll_default_language(de_DE); ?> |
<?php pll_default_language(en_US); ?> |
<?php pll_default_language(tr_TR); ?> |

<?php pll_default_language(‘de_DE’=>1); ?>
<?php pll_default_language(de_DE); ?>

Sorry, is it still about your request 1 or 2? Why don’t you use the pll_the_languages?

Request 2. Cause I want the | pipe symbol as plain text behind each language link.

DE | EN | TR

and not
DE EN TR

I want the | pipe symbol

It’s rather a CSS question for your theme author. Polylang doesn’t act on the theme CSS.

I’m editing the navbar file myself. What I need from polylang is to be able to position each language selector link individually.

And the pll_the_languages function doesn’t work?

EDIT: If you use a menu, you can use the language switcher already set in Appearance > menu > Language swicther metabox. Then customize it in your CSS.

I want to pull all languages separately. Cause else I cant use custom text between each link.

I.e.
<?php pll_default_language(de_DE); ?> |
<?php pll_default_language(en_US); ?> |
<?php pll_default_language(tr_TR); ?>

But as said this doesn’t work. Where is my mistake?

<?php pll_default_language(de_DE); ?> |
<?php pll_default_language(en_US); ?> |
<?php pll_default_language(tr_TR); ?>

This function displays nothing on the front, it only returns. As argument you can only use either ‘name’ or ‘locale’ or ‘slug’, defaults to ‘slug’.

As I said you need to use the pll_the_languages function as explained here: https://polylang.wordpress.com/documentation/documentation-for-developers/functions-reference/#pll_the_languages

You can use this function in your navbar such as:

<ul><?php pll_the_languages(array('display_names_as'=>'slug')); ?></ul>

For the ” | ” you can make it thanks to the CSS:

.lang-item + .lang-item::before {
    content: " | ";
}

Hello Shaddy!

Can you explain me what was the code that you used to edit the language name to abbreviations?

Very simple, you can edit the names right in the polylang language settings.

@shaddi
Could you please mark this topic as “resolved”. Thanks.