Bogo
Bogo

Bogo

Takayuki Miyoshi
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https://ideasilo.wordpress.com/bogo/

Bogo is a straight-forward multilingual plugin for WordPress.

The core of WordPress itself has the built-in localization capability so you can use the dashboard and theme in one language other than English. Bogo expands this capability to let you easily build a multilingual blog on a single WordPress install.

Here are some technical details for those interested. Bogo plugin assigns one language per post. It plays nice with WordPress – Bogo does not create any additional custom table on your database, unlike some other plugins in this category. This design makes Bogo a solid, reliable and conflict-free multilingual plugin.

Getting started with Bogo

  1. Install language packs

    First, install language packs for languages you use on the site. You can view and install language packs in the Language Packs screen (Languages > Language Packs).

  2. Select your language for admin screen

    Bogo lets each logged-in user select a language for their admin screen UI. Select a language from the menu on the Toolbar, or from the menu in the Profile screen (Users > Your Profile) if the Toolbar is invisible.

  3. Translate your posts and pages

    To create a translation post, go to the editor screen for the original post and find the Language box. Bogo does only make a copy of the post; translating the copied post is your task.

  4. Add language switcher widgets

    It would be useful for site visitors if you have a language switcher on your site. Bogo provides the Language Switcher widget in the Widgets screen (Appearance > Widgets).

    You can also use the [bogo] shortcode to put a language switcher inside a post content. If you want to use this shortcode in your theme’s template files, embed the following code into the template:

    <?php echo do_shortcode( '[bogo]' ); ?>

Privacy notices

With the default configuration, this plugin, in itself, does not:

  • track users by stealth;
  • write any user personal data to the database;
  • send any data to external servers;
  • use cookies.

The plugin has a poor feature set

By michman31 on July 20, 2024

The plugin lacks many options that competitors have:

  1. No option to enable/disable language flags.
  2. No ability to enable/disable language labels.
  3. There is no possibility to set the layout of language icons themselves. They only appear as a vertical list. This is inconvenient for menus. You can't put them in a row. I had to rewrite the plugin code.
  4. There is no possibility to enable/disable detection of the user's browser language, so that the pages would be displayed in the required language for the person.

Easy to use and works with REST API

By yogibear54 on December 29, 2023

My main goal was to find a multi-language plugin that supports REST API using some easy, expected methods to pull the multi-language content. After trying a few language plugins, I realized not many supported REST API, or you needed to pay for it... when I tried Bogo, it was simple and intuitive, no fuss. Getting the language was also super easy through REST API... you can pass in a lang parameter (i.e. [URL]/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?lang=zh OR [URL]/zh/wp-json/wp/v2/posts ... ), this is the expected way to get the language you expect...

Easy, Simple and works perfect!

By wolke7ner on March 15, 2023

Thank you for a great plugin!

突然Not found

By anshin88 on January 11, 2022

Bogoで日本語と英語のページを固定ページで作成して運用してましたが、ある日突然日本語ページが”Not found”と”No post”の文字が出てエラーになりました。 ちなみに英語のページは見れます。 色々調べましたが、Bogoプラグインを消したらそのサイトを見れるようになったのでまず間違いなさそうです。どうすればエラーが無くなるでしょうか？

doesn't work with woocommerce

By jeykey on December 2, 2021

Nice plugin, but it doesn't work with woocommerce(

Clean, minimal and does it all

By AlfredG on August 9, 2021

I tried Bogo everal times, the older versions didn't work for me, or I couldn't find all the settings. Now I gave it one more try because I've had it with Google translate crappy plugins, and it all works! I'm almost done translating my complete site (a lot of work), but the way Bogo is build it is as solid as a rock. Menu translation is done by apointing translated menu items, you can let the menu item to a specific language with a check box. Something you realy have to know, it took me some time to find it. That brings me to the following. A short manual is in place for this plugin. It will realy prevent users to step out and look for another solution. Pitty, becuase it's a great plugin.

Plugin author doesn't answer to questions/bad support

By snippet24 on January 15, 2021

Hope this changes in the future, because this plugin is the best approach for Wordpress trasnlations/localization.

Plugin seems not compatible with Elementor...

By alainmelsens on September 23, 2020

Elementor is a great pagebuilder. It's very pity that this plugin seems not be compatible with Elementor. The language switcher is a static list version with no extra options. Maybe it's made only for standard WordPress websites without more layout extensions...? I miss really more modern layout possibilities.

Fantastic plugin!!!

By azul87 on August 29, 2020

Easy to use, not sure why the last guy wrote a bad review. I use Site Origin Page Builder and it works fine with Bogo.

the best plugin for swtiching language in wordpress site

By Kevin Kovadia (kpdaa) on April 24, 2021

dear team, thank you so much for making this plugin. since a long time, I am looking for a free yet powerful language switcher plugin for my WordPress site. I have tried so many plugins, either they are not powerful or they are very high in the budget. recently, I am researching about the developer of "contact form 7" plugin. I realised they have made one more plugin called "BOGO", and it is related to multi-language. I tried "BOGO" in my wp site and it was great. I really like that we can add language switcher block in the footer as a widget. my question is, can we add this language switcher block/button in the header menu or anywhere near the top of the website. so that visitor can know that this site is also available in another language.

3.8.2

  • Fixes a bug that prevents block editor from working correctly on 6.4-6.5 versions of WordPress.

3.8.1

  • Language packs: Fixes a bug that blocks language pack deactivation.

3.8

  • Language switcher: Updates apiVersion to 3 in the block.json file.
  • Lets bogo_http_accept_languages() always return an array.
  • Fixes a bug that makes it impossible to have two sticky posts or more.

3.7

  • Language switcher: Adds the language suggestion view.
  • Improves bogo_format_atts().
  • Updates the languages list in bogo_languages() based on translate.wordpress.org.
  • Uses a static list to retrieve language native names.
  • National flags: Drops famfamfam.com icons in favor of Unicode regional indicator symbols.
  • New filter hook: bogo_get_language
  • New filter hook: bogo_get_language_native_name
  • New filter hook: bogo_get_country_code
  1. Upload the entire bogo folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen (Plugins > Installed Plugins).

Reviews

4.4 out of 5 stars

  • Version: 3.8.2
  • Last updated: 2 months ago
  • Active installations: 10K
  • WordPress version: 6.4
  • Tested up to: 6.6.2
  • PHP version: 7.4