After trial and error: I discovered that the code<meta name=”google-translate-customization” content=”###########-#########-#########”></meta>
should be added to the header.php file just before the </head>
Where the ###########-#########-######### is the unique Google alpha-numeric address for your website.
If you have installed the Google Translate Plugin you do NOT need to add the following code to your header.php file:
<div id=”google_translate_element”></div><script type=”text/javascript”>
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: ‘en’, layout: google.translate.TranslateElement.InlineLayout.SIMPLE, multilanguagePage: true}, ‘google_translate_element’);
}
</script><script type=”text/javascript” src=”//translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit”></script>
As this will just make an additional copy of your language dropdown menu