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There are so many great plugins for WordPress and Buy Me a Beer is one of them. It enables your blog users to donate you money through Paypal encouraging them with specific phrasing. One of the problems of the current Buy Me a Beer release, is that it doesn’t allow to choose the language of the Paypal donation page. To overcome this issue, here’s the trick: in buy-me-beer.php, look for $paypal_link and $paypal_contentlink variables. They should look like this:

$paypal_contentlink =  "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=".$options['business']."&currency_code=".$options['currency']."&amount=".$options['amount']."&[...]

$paypal_link = "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=".$options['business']."&currency_code=".$options['currency']."&amount=".$options['amount']."&return=".$options['thankspage']."&lc=US&item_name=".str_replace(" ","+",$args['title']);

And add, after the first & in each of the occurrence of the variable, the string lc=US& including the “;”. You can change the language of the page by specifying a different country code instead of US (which stands for United States, so an English page is displayed). Query your favorite search engine for a list of country codes.

So here we go with tip #2 for this great plugin. I wanted to show both the flag and the name of available languages on my wordpress sidebar. The function responsible for checking available languages is polyglot_list_langs, which I had to modify a little bit to suit my needs. Ok, let’s stop talking and start coding

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If you need to publish the work on your WordPress blog in two or more languages, there is a great chance that you will be using Polyglot. It is a great plugin, works nicely and allows to publish multiple translation of your texts. I tried to enable the language sidebar in my theme, but somehow things got weird (the list was misplaced). Digging through polyglot code, I found a way to fix this behavior. Just follow those few simple steps…
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