WordPress Language
WordPress Language is a free plugin that lets you easily localize single-language WordPress sites.
Download WordPress LanguageInstead of having to download .mo files and edit wp-config.php to set the WPLANG variable, this plugin does it all for you.
Choose the language from within the WordPress admin and you’re ready.
WordPress Language will look for the best available translation for your language, download and install it. It sets the correct locale and everything appears in the right language.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does WordPress Language translate my content?
WordPress Language downloads and installs translation for texts in WordPress itself, not for your own content.
What languages can it switch to?
The list of language is dynamic, coming from an online index. You’ll find every language to which WordPress is localized. It’s a pretty long list and still growing.
How can I run a site in multiple languages?
If you need to run a site in one language, other than English, this is your solution. For multilingual sites, look at WPML.
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Great idea, awesome feature!
Seems Finnish doesn’t work… Perhaps it’s because your list uses fi_FI instead of plain fi?
For Finnish to work, check these two lines in wordpress-language/inc/lang-data.php:
$lang_codes = array(
‘Finnish’ => ‘fi’,
$lang_locales = array(
‘fi’ => ‘fi’,
Just to let you know that we’re fixing this in the upcoming release of both WordPress Language and WPML.
Hi, I have purchased your WPML for enihongo.org, which is still under construction and awaiting your response for my other issue.
Here, I am trying to install the WordPress language for another domain: enihongo.COM.
Howerver, this time, I need to use Traditional Chinese, which I cannot find from the language list.
Could you help to increase the Traditional Chinese Language for me?
By the way, I am also using this WordPress Language in http://www.tchinese.org, which I use Japanese for clients.
Best regards,
The Chinese languages in the WordPress localization project include zh_CN and zh_TW. Simplified Chinese is zh_CN, so I think that Traditional Chinese is zh_TW:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Wikipedia
Hi,
I like the WordPress Language plugin and I use it currently, but I want to remove the plugin menu from the admin bar for non-administrators. I have a function that removes unneeded links/menus from admin bar, so, I think, I need only the name of your WordPress Language menu to put it in that function. Can you help me?
There is a checkbox to remove the language drop-down from the menu completely. It’s in the plugin setup page. Have you seen that?
Thank you, Amir! I know about that option, but I want to disable the language drop-down from the menu for non-administrators only not for all users.
It’s a sensible feature request. I’ll add it to our new-features list for WordPress Language.
OK. Thank you!
Hi,
When will the Finnish language version be ready? I’m in need of a good Finnish translation tool
Coming in the next release. We’ll try to push it out next week, along with a few other small changes.
That’ll be nice. Thanks
Can’t get Turkish to work. It’s available from the language list, but does nothing.
Maybe we got the locale code incorrectly for Turkish. We’ll check this and see if there’s anything to fix.
Oz, this has been fixed in the development version. You can try it before it’s released by getting the dev version from here: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-language.zip
Thanks for reporting.
When it will be added to the Georgian?
WP Language takes all the languages from the WordPress localization project. We’ll see if it’s missing mapping for Georgian.
Can’t seem to get Finnish language to work. Should it?
Oops, my mistake – not even available =)
Finnish language should be available. It’s not in the drop-down with list of major languages. You should see Finnish in the complete languages page. There’s a link to ‘other languages’ in the dropdown menu.
Problems with Portuguese Brazil… always select pt_PT…
Hi, I use the Dutch translation, but it seems some translations are missing (e.g. “one thought on ..” when someone left a comment, is not translated).
Which file contains all translated words and can I add more translations to that?
WPML 2.7 is taking its translations from a less-ideal source in the WordPress translation project. We’re updating it in WPML 2.8, so that the translation source is the very last stable translation branch. We’ll be ready with this version in about a week. Would that help?