I am trying to:
add en_US as custom lang, my site is setup as UK/ GB english in settings and i have a variable wplang set to define( 'WP_LANG','en_GB' );
the site may have been setup initially US english but any wp updates are now loaded in en_GB, site lang = uk english, and all the files in wpml dirs are prefixed with en_GB
i hard removed WPML full reset etc and starting again setting up WPML it somhow picks up the default locale as en_US and stops me adding a USA custom language at setup.
where do i need to change to have my default lang EN_GB so when WPML starts installing and setting up it load english as the correct locale? ie en_GB
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I expected to see:
add US as a new custom lang and have en_US locale available to use
Instead, I got:
unable to use the en_US locale to set a custom lang as its already in use, but the site lang is uk english.
Thanks , yes this works, just not intutive when you use custom at setup time. the new language is added but does not have a seperate translation language, i know this is not the exact use of WPML but portugeses has two variants as has chinese so english should have a varient for US, Aust etc. Am i better off with multisite to achieve distinct site for UK , USA etc
Languages: English (English )Spanish (Español )German (Deutsch )
Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)
Yes, I understand - What you actually would do in this case is change the default locale for the pre-installed English language to en_GB and then create a custom language for en_US.
We use en_US as the default, as this is the default locale that WordPress uses for its language files.
Creating a custom language would be exactly the way to go.
If you wish, I can offer to open an internal escalation and ask for a feature request to add a new language, in this case, one for English-US, one for English-GB, and maybe even English-AU.
Would you like me to open such a ticket?
About the Multisite approach:
I understand that this is a way to display different websites in different languages but take note that this way you will not be able to sync any contents between sites - you will have to connect them all manually and for example, WooCoommerce products will not run in sync, as each Multisite has its database tables.
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