Set Select Language as default

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Use <script>jQuery(document).ready(function($){$('select.gt_selector').val('')});</script> before </body>

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Hi @edo888,

That works well – thanks. Although it keeps changing to Select Language on every page even after a language is chosen. Is there anyway to say Select Language when the site first loads and then once a langauge is chosen display that language name on each subsequent page load?

Maybe something like this, which checks if you are on original language (en) or not:

<script>jQuery(document).ready(function($){
    var original_language = 'en'; // can be en-US, en-GB, check the lang attribute of html tag
    if($('html').attr('lang') == original_language)
        $('select.gt_selector').val('');
});</script>

You can also keep a track of the user interaction with the selector, but it is out of the scope of free support.

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Thanks. Is there anyway to start off showing Select Language when the site first loads?

For that you will need to alter the plugin codes which will be reset after each update.

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Thanks @edo888 I appreciate the time you’ve taken to provide the code above.

It’s just a shame that this was changed as it was showing Select Language and then the chosen language once selected from the dropdown before the plugin update.

I was receiving multiple requests to show the selected language instead of “Select Language”, so I have decided to change that in the new version.

If I see more demand for showing “Select Language” I’ll consider adding a configuration option to choose from.

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@edo888 I understand, thanks.

You are welcome! ??

Just wanted to chime in that I would be in support of a configuration option like what elainewildash referenced above — would love to see that as one of the widget options in a future update!

Yeah this would be a nice feature @edo888 to maintain the previous functionality.

For anyone else, rather than use JS, you could filter the settings to set default_language to ''. @edo888 has not provided any filters with which to do this, but the settings are loaded via get_option, so something like this should let you do this:

add_filter('option_GTranslate', function($data) {
    $data['default_language'] = '';
    return $data;
}

That’s untested. There is an isset check that could prevent that from sticking.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by eclev91.