Adding javascript to only a certain languages pages

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Last updated by Nicolas V. 1 year, 10 months ago.

Assisted by: Nicolas V..

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July 14, 2023 at 4:31 pm #14040867
andrewT-18	Hi, I would like to add a piece of javascript, but ONLY to our english pages. We elected to not have the english pages be /en, they are just the root domain. But, we do NOT want this javascript to display on any translated pages (/fr, /es, etc). Is there a way to do this? In the future, we would also add Javascript only to specific language databases (/fe, /es, etc). So we would need to understand how to do both. Thank you!
July 14, 2023 at 5:10 pm #14041013
Nicolas V. Supporter Languages: English (English ) French (Français ) Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)	Hello, Welcome to the WPML support forum. You can use our hook 'wpml_current_language' to get the current language and then use an IF statement to add your JS only if the language is EN. Ref: https://wpml.org/wpml-hook/wpml_current_language/ Quick example: <?php $my_current_lang = apply_filters( 'wpml_current_language', NULL ); if ( $my_current_lang == 'en' ) { echo '<p>English content</p>'; }; ?>
July 17, 2023 at 2:49 pm #14050733
andrewT-18	Ok cool thank you, A couple more questions: 1. If I wanted to add my javascript into that "quick example" where would I put it? The script is from a source URL like this: <script src="fake-url"></script> 2. How would this script change for other languages? Do I just change out the "my_current_lang" section? Thank you!
July 17, 2023 at 9:30 pm #14053637
Nicolas V. Supporter Languages: English (English ) French (Français ) Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)	Hello, You can use IF / ELSEIF statements for all your languages. Here is an example: Code to be inserted in your functions.php add_action( 'wp_head', function(){ $my_current_lang = apply_filters( 'wpml_current_language', NULL ); if( $my_current_lang == 'en' ){ ?> <script src="fake-url-ENGLISH"></script> <?php } elseif( $my_current_lang == 'it' ){ ?> <script src="fake-url-ITALIAN"></script> <?php } elseif( $my_current_lang == 'fr' ){ ?> <script src="fake-url-FRENCH"></script> <?php } });