Multilingual engine

[fale]

I've used WordPress for years, and I've been using pretty much all plugins for multilingual websites (Polylang, qTranslate, WPML).
All these implementations have problems, mainly because - I think - add "overhead" to the structure. In fact the engine below them is not multilingual and they "fake" multilingual behaviors.
This often causes problems with other themes and plugins.
Also it is a potential security problem, since a lot of them are not regularly updated.
Also, whichever you pick, you'll not be able to use the official WordPress application (at least the Android version).
I think that WordPress should work toward a creation of a multilingual engine in the core code to solve these problems.

[ocean90]

Can be done with plugins

– Matt, #99

[fale]

@ocean90: yes it can, but has all the problems I explained. Also you link a ticket of 9 years ago... The world changes in 9 years, the web way more

[kovshenin]

I'll vote -1. I don't think this should be done in core. Also, "plugins may not be updated regularly" and "plugins may be insecure" is true for any plugin, not only the ones you mentioned. That doesn't mean each one of them should be implemented in core :)

[nacin]

This was discussed at the ​WordPress Community Summit in October. It is a lofty goal for this to at some point find its way into core, but this is definitely not on the near-term roadmap. For now, the fact that no plugin has yet to do this well is actually a better reason to not attempt this.

Here's a promising plugin: ​https://github.com/cftp/babble.

[SergeyBiryukov]

#59218 was marked as a duplicate.

[meaganhanes]

This was re-brought up at State of the Word '22 and again in various discussions, which is not being picked up here.