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Vizou Bling

Vizou Bling (short for “bilingual”) is a lightweight WordPress plugin initially designed for my own use developing custom, bilingual themes in English and French, created with artists, freelancers and other small businesses in mind. The goal of this plugin was to avoid the complexity of currently popular, large-scale plugins that have a steep learning curve and require constant synchronization of bilingual content elements.

This plugin does not maintain separate directories for each language, part of what can make more complex plugins hard to use. All content is contained in a each Post or Page’s editing area (see more details about SEO considerations in the Use tab above). A language switcher can be added anywhere in your theme to quickly swap out language content. Requires any version of the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin to be installed and activated.

This plugin will never be available in the WordPress repository, but is, of course, open source and free to anyone who wants to use or adapt it (it can quite easily be converted to other language pairs).