Wagtail: language switcher template tag

[agelinas]

I've spent hours trying to find a language selection form to include in my base template and wish there would be a built in template tag (ex. {% language_selector %} ).

For a non developer like me, it's hard to implement this, so I believe that if a language selection tag was included in Wagtail, it would be a welcomed addition.

Django's sample language selector works but would need some javascript or something else so we don't have to click on a 'GO' button. Also there is no checking whether or not we are using i18n_patterns for the URLs. And there are other things that could be automated, drop down menu for more than 2 languages, simple link which toggle between two languages, etc., and possible options.

Language selector from Django Docs

<form action="{% url 'set_language' %}" method="post">{% csrf_token %}
        <input name="next" type="hidden" value="{{ redirect_to }}" />
        <select name="language" onclick="Bonjour">
            {% get_current_language as LANGUAGE_CODE %}
            {% get_available_languages as LANGUAGES %}
            {% get_language_info_list for LANGUAGES as languages %}
            {% for language in languages %}
                <option value="{{ language.code }}"{% if language.code == LANGUAGE_CODE %}      selected="selected"{% endif %}>
                    {{ language.name_local }} ({{ language.code }})
                </option>
            {% endfor %}
        </select>
        <input type="submit" value="Go" />
    </form>

Conclusion

Wagtail is a great CMS. With time, there will be better multilingual built in functionality. I am using wagtail-modeltranslation, which works well for me, but I need to let the users swith langues on the website and this has proven to be much more challenging than expected, since I would need to do some coding. I believe that this is something that could be built in (ex. a template tag) or at least to have some examples in the documentation.

Thank you!

[SalahAdDin]

:+1:

[microwriting]

I have the same issue,
Currently, I am trying to implemented internationalization using wagtail-modeltranslation, and added the code that adding a "language code" at the beginning of url in url.py.
however, I do not know how to put a swicher on the navbar.
I hope someone can teach me this solution.