Title: Language Taxonomy
Author: Dominik Schwind
Published: <strong>June 20, 2010</strong>
Last modified: November 24, 2025

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# Language Taxonomy

 By [Dominik Schwind](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dominikschwind-1/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/language-taxonomy.0.3.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/language-taxonomy/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/language-taxonomy/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/language-taxonomy/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/language-taxonomy/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/language-taxonomy/)

## Description

Adds a language taxonomy to posts, pages and other items.

This will add a URL scheme (Your Blog)/lang/(slug).

There is also a template tag for usage within the loop.

Example:

    ```
    <?php if(function_exists('lt_the_language')): ?>
    <?php lt_the_language($post_id); ?>
    <?php endif; ?>
    ```

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * New language box in the New Post screen.
 * [[
 * Overview of the languages
 * [[
 * Test language with permalink – English
 * [[
 * Test language with permalink – German

## Installation

 1. Just like any other plugin, too.
 2. Activate it.
 3. Update your “Permalinks” settings.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Language Taxonomy” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Dominik Schwind ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dominikschwind-1/)

[Translate “Language Taxonomy” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/language-taxonomy)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/language-taxonomy/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/language-taxonomy/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/language-taxonomy/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/language-taxonomy/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.3.1

 * Skip language detection on comments

#### 0.3.0

 * Use the slug as a language in the ActivityPub plugin. As long as the slug is 
   an ISO language code.

#### 0.2.3

 * Checked for 4.2 compatibility
 * Added screenshots

#### 0.2.2

 * Checked for 3.9 compatibility.

#### 0.2.1

 * Removed two typos

#### 0.2

 * Template tag to use in the loop

#### 0.1

 * Initial Version
 * More options will be coming, especially template tags.

## Meta

 *  Version **0.3.1**
 *  Last updated **6 months ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/language-taxonomy/)
 * Tags
 * [language](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/language/)[taxonomy](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/taxonomy/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/language-taxonomy/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Dominik Schwind ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dominikschwind-1/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/language-taxonomy/)