Preferred Languages

Description

Thanks to language packs it’s easier than ever before to change the main language of your site.
However, in some cases a single locale is not enough. When WordPress can’t find a translation for the active locale, it falls back to the original English strings.
That’s a poor user experience for many non-English speakers.

This feature project aims to change that by letting users choose multiple languages for displaying WordPress in.
That way you can set some sort of « fallback chain » where WordPress tries to load translations in your preferred order.

Aidez-nous à tester cette extension et laissez-nous savoir si vous trouvez un problème ou avez une suggestion.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Arrow Up: Move selected locale one position up.
• Arrow Down: Move selected locale one position down.
• Home: Select first locale in the list.
• End: Select last locale in the list.
• Backspace/Delete: remove the selected locale from the list.
• Alt+A: Add the current locale from the dropdown to the list.

Note: the Preferred Languages UI needs to be focused in order for the keyboard shortcuts to work.

Merging Translations

By default, only the first available translation for a given locale and domain will be loaded.
However, when translations are incomplete, some strings might still be displayed in English.
That’s a poor user experience as well.

To prevent this, the preferred_languages_merge_translations filter can be used to opt into merging incomplete translations.
It provides three parameters:

1. $merge – Whether translations should be merged.
2. $domain – The text domain
3. $current_locale – The current locale.

Note: On WordPress 6.5 and newer, this functionality is enabled by default.
On older versions of WordPress, this is a potentially slow/expensive process,
so it’s recommended to use it sparingly and only for specific domains.

Je m’implique

Le développement de cette extension a lieu sur GitHub.

Si vous souhaitez vous impliquer, rendez-vous sur notre page de problèmes à régler et joignez #core-i18n sur Slack. Si vous n’avez pas de compte, vous pouvez créer un compte Slack en quelques minutes seulement!