Polylang – Documentation

For a quick start, you can look at Polylang, getting started PDF document. It will help you to setup your multilingual website step by step with a lot of screenshots. To go further, the full documentation is available below:

• Credits
• Contribute
• Setting up a WordPress multilingual site with Polylang
  • Installation
  • Creating the languages
  • Settings
  • Theme internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n)
  • Widgets
  • Navigations menus
  • Strings translation
  • Translating categories or post tags
  • Translating posts or pages
  • Translating media
  • Synchronization of meta content
  • User personalization
• Frequently asked questions
  • General
  • The language switcher
  • Navigation menus
• Documentation for developers
  • General
  • Tips and tricks
    • How to display the default language post if the translation does not exists?
  • Function reference
  • Filter reference
  • List of options which can be set in wp-config.php
  • Compatibility with the WPML API
  • The WPML language configuration file

Function reference

pll_the_languages

Use show list languages (flags, name).

<div class="languages"><ul><?php 
 function_exists('pll_the_languages') ? pll_the_languages(array(
 'show_flags' => 0,
 'show_names' => 1,
 'hide_current' => 1,
 )) : '';
 ?></ul></div>

pll__ and pll_e

Use to translates a string previously registered with pll_register_string.

<div class="button"><a href="#back"><?php echo pll__('Back');?></a></div>

If you don’t want use ‘echo’:

<div class="button"><a href="#back"><?php pll_e('Back');?></a></div>

See All Functions

Full Document on polylang.wordpress.com