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Language Fallback

By Bernhard Kau

Description

Starting with WordPress 4.3, you can use languages such as “Deutsch (Sie)” (formal German) in your WordPress installation. But if the themes or plugins you are using do not have a
translation file for this language, WordPress would use the default language, usually English, instead. With the help of this plugin, you can set a fallback for your chosen language.
Every time a translation file is loaded, the plugin will then load the fallback, if a translation for the originally chosen language was not found.

A list of all of my plugins can be found on the WordPress Plugin page on my blog kau-boys.com.

Screenshots

  • Screenshot of the settings page

Installation

Install the plugin as usual from the plugins page on your dashboard (by search or uploaded ZIP file) or upload it with FTP. You should than choose your fallback language in “Settings > General”.

FAQ

Does this plugin only work with formal German?

No. You can choose any fallback language that fits your original language. Think about fallbacks from “Spanish (Mexico)” to “Spanish”.

Do I need to manually install the fallback language?

No. The plugin will automatically download the fallback language if it is not already installed.

Reviews

Works like a charm

April 7, 2020
Great tool for falling back to Spanish (Spain) from partially (or not at all) translated Spanish versions like Mexico, Colombia etc.

Best

February 18, 2019
Best solution for me. Using "German_formal" and "German"...this plugin simply helps me out of missing translations.

This plugin saved my day

September 22, 2018
I didn't realize that when wordpress is set to an altertative language variant such as german_formal that there is no fallback to german if a plugin does not have a complete translation to this variant. The functionality of this plugin should definitelty be included in WP core. Great work!

Simple y útil

June 15, 2018
Imprescindible en instalaciones para variedades del idioma Español, como Español de México.

PPP ***** Pure Perfect Plugin

September 8, 2017
Es hört sich vielleicht komisch an, aber dieses Plugin hätte 6 Sterne verdient, dafür, dass es genau das macht, was es soll und nicht mehr oder weniger - wie gefühlte 99% der anderen Plugins. 👏🏽👏👏🏾👏🏻👏🏼👏🏿 Herzlichen Dank an Bernhard
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Contributors & Developers

“Language Fallback” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Language Fallback” has been translated into 14 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

1.0.5

  • Increment Tested up to
  • Time invested for this release: 10min

1.0.4

  • Remove the languages folder and prepare the plugin for automated deployments
  • Time invested for this release: 10min

1.0.3

  • Implementing the fallback locales as an array
  • Time invested for this release: 10min

1.0.2

  • Bumping version number
  • Time invested for this release: 2min

1.0.1

  • Small bugfix for the filter
  • Time invested for this release: 15min

1.0.0

  • Intitial release of the plugin
  • Time invested for this release: 200min

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