Plugin installation and activation
In order to work correctly, the plugin must be installed within a multisite environment with more than one blog, each blog being set in a different language. This specific WordPress installation is described in details in the article Create a Network (WP Codex) in which you can also find more information on that topic.
In order to choose the blog language, go to the administration menu, to Settings/General and chosse the language at the bottom of that page.
The default downloaded version of WordPress includes only one language. Make sure that you already have the WordPress files related to the languages that you want to use on the other blogs !For this to work, you have to install les .mo files concerning the languages that you want: See the following articles.
After you downloaded the Multisite Language Switcher plugin and extracted the .zip file, copy the entire folder onto the following sub-folder of your WordPress installation:
wp-content/plugins/
So far the plugin installation follows the usual procedure. In a practical way, the plugin activation can then be made
- either by the network administrator on all the blogs,
- or by the root blog administrator for each particular blog.