Zubavelo – Language Translator & Flag Switcher

Zubavelo adds a fast, good-looking language switcher to your WordPress website. Visitors choose their language and the page is translated instantly, without leaving your site.

Features

• 130+ languages, including Pashto (پښتو), Urdu (اردو), Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Turkish and many more
• Floating language button shown automatically at the bottom of your website (bottom left, center or right)
• Two shortcodes: a dropdown and a searchable language list
• Flags next to every language, or text-only mode
• Choose a different flag for any language (for example English with a US flag instead of a UK flag)
• Choose exactly which languages visitors can pick
• Set the original language of your website
• Optional automatic detection of the visitor’s browser language
• Remembers the visitor’s chosen language on every page
• Optional public attribution, disabled by default
• Custom button colors and spacing
• Lightweight, no account or API key required

Shortcodes

• [swa_translator] – dropdown language selector. Options: align="left|center|right", flags="yes|no"
• [swa_translator_list] – searchable list of language buttons. Options: columns="3", search="yes|no", flags="yes|no"

External services

This plugin uses the Google Translate website translation service to translate pages in the visitor’s browser.

• What it is used for: translating the visible text of your pages into the language the visitor selects.
• When it is used: the Google Translate script (translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js) is loaded on pages where the language switcher is shown, and whenever a visitor has previously selected a language. Translation can start after a visitor selects a language, when a previously selected language is restored, or through browser-language detection if the administrator enables it (disabled by default).
• Data sent: the text content of the page being translated and standard request data (such as IP address) as with any web request to Google.
• Browser localStorage key lingoswa_auto records whether automatic detection has been attempted.
• A cookie named googtrans is set in the visitor’s browser to remember the chosen language.
• Service provider: Google LLC. Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms – Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Credits

Flag images are derived from the Noto Color Emoji project by Google (https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji).