Filter reviews by page language
On a multilingual website, a German visitor seeing Polish reviews is noise. This option makes the widget show only reviews matching the language of the page they are on.
How the language is detected
The widget reads the lang attribute of the <html> tag and displays only reviews in that
language.
<html lang="de">This means the filter is only as good as your markup. If every page declares lang="en", every
page gets English reviews regardless of its actual content.
The three settings
Filter by page language shows only reviews in the language taken from the <html lang>
attribute.
Include ENG additionally shows English reviews next to the page language. Useful when your local-language reviews are still few and you do not want a nearly empty widget.
Choose lang ISO code pins the language manually instead of reading it from the page. Use this when your markup is unreliable, or on a single-language page that differs from the rest of the site.
The settings combine. Pinning de plus Include ENG shows German and English reviews together.
The widget went empty after I enabled this
That usually means the filter is working correctly and you simply have no reviews in that language.
- Check what
<html lang>your page declares. View source and look at the very first tag. A page declaringlang="en-GB"is matched as English. - Turn on Include ENG so the widget falls back to English reviews.
- Check the language mix of your reviews in All reviews, where you can filter by language.
- Consider pinning the language with the ISO code if your CMS outputs the wrong
langvalue.