Opened 10 years ago
Last modified 6 years ago
#37130 new enhancement
Auto-download language packs when installing manually
| Reported by: | samuelsidler | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Future Release |
| Component: | Upgrade/Install | Version: | |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | needs-patch |
| Cc: | Focuses: |
Description
Themes and plugins can be downloaded from Rosetta sites (locale.wordpress.org). When they're downloaded, they are only available in English and whatever locale packages a theme/plugin author has decided to ship. They do not include language packs made available from translate.wordpress.org.
As a result, if I download a plugin from the German plugin directory and manually install it, even if it's fully translated into German and a language pack is available, I won't see the interface in German. Thus, this ticket.
On manual install, we should check for an available language pack and auto-download the language pack.
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Let's see about fixing this one!
Thinking it through, it seems that downloading the language pack when the plugin is activated may work best. I don't believe language packs are updated for plugins that are inactive, but that could be incorrect. I'll try to do some testing to confirm that.