How to display language switcher as dropdown in Polylang?

Question

I don't have display as dropdown in Appereance -> Menu -> Language switcher. How can i solve it?

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Any help will be appreciated...

Jest

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take a look here polylang.pro/doc/widgets – Elo

And here: polylang.pro/doc-category/the-language-switcher – Elo

And here, if you can code, take a look to pll_the_languages() function: polylang.pro/doc/function-reference – Elo

...And please, do not mind cops. Yes, sadly enough they are everywhere, but there are also people who want to help when common sense can go behind the Sacred Rules. – Elo

you really want to run this with the following categories - home, about us, product , news, contact - language switcher – Mcbrayer

Answer 1

You should alternatively use the PHP function to display it, try this

<?php pll_the_languages( array( 'dropdown' => 1 ) ); ?>

The documentation is here - https://polylang.pro/doc/function-reference/#pll_the_languages

Ari

Although this is the right answer, I always prefer to give a string name to the dropdown argument (desktop, mobile). The point is that if you use it twice on your page (e.g. mobile and desktop menu) the generated code won't work with 1 as the value (because of non unique DOM id). – Armenian

Answer 2

In appearance->menus, go in screen options on top right of you screen and check the “Language switcher” checkbox. You then should have a new metabox which allows to add a language switcher just as you add another menu item.

Integrated

Answer 3

@NJENGAH's answer is correct.

Additionally, if you would like to have 2 drop-downs on the same page, i.e. header and footer, increment the dropdown array value for the subsequent calls by 1.

<?php pll_the_languages( ['dropdown' => 2 ] ); ?>```

and so on...

Stevens