How do I change the position of the language switcher?

You can place the language switcher in a corner of the screen or inside an element of your page, such as the menu.

How do I change the position?

  1. Go to Domains in your ConveyThis dashboard, open the Settings menu on your website and choose Settings.
  2. Under Switcher appearance, find Position.
  3. Choose Fixed corner and pick Top left, Top right, Bottom left or Bottom right. Use the Indenting sliders to move it away from the edge.
  4. Or choose Inside an element and enter the id of the element, without the # (for example menu, not #menu).

Position in Switcher appearance: Fixed corner or Inside an element, the four corners and Indenting

Your changes are saved automatically. If the element isn’t found on a page, the switcher uses the default position.

Menu opens sets whether the language list opens upward or downward. Auto opens it downward in the top corners and upward everywhere else.

WordPress

  1. In your WordPress admin, open ConveyThis in the menu and go to the Widget Style tab.
  2. Under Position type, choose:
    • Fixed, then pick Top or Bottom and Left or Right, or
    • Custom, then enter the id of the element and choose which way the menu opens.
  3. Click Save settings.

Position type in the WordPress plugin: Fixed or Custom, with Top or Bottom and Left or Right

You can also place the switcher anywhere in your content with the shortcode [conveythis_switcher], or add the ConveyThis widget in Appearance → Widgets.

How do I find the id of an element?

  1. On your website, right-click the place where you want the switcher and choose Inspect.
  2. Look for id=”…” on the selected element. The text in the quotes is the id.

If the element has no id, add one in your website’s template or editor, for example <div id="language-switcher"></div>.