Allow installing translations via the language setting on the user profile edit page admin

[barryceelen]

A language option was added to the user's profile settings page. It would be nice to be able to add languages like you can in Settings > General

[ocean90]

By "adding" you mean "installing" right?

[barryceelen]

Correct :-)

[ocean90]

Related commit: [30335]

I'm not sure about that because it would allow non-admins to modify/add files on your filesystem.

[johnbillion]

I think this feature should at least be allowed for users who can manage options. Without it, an admin has to either install a new language manually, or they have to switch the site language to their preference in order to install it, then switch it back, then switch their user language to their newly-installed preference.

[swissspidy]

I think this feature should at least be allowed for users who can manage options. Without it, an admin has to either install a new language manually, or they have to switch the site language to their preference in order to install it, then switch it back, then switch their user language to their newly-installed preference.

+1

[MaximeCulea]

If you are looking for wp_disallow_file_mods( $context ) method, it has been implemented in ticket.38673

[swissspidy]

I think should use the new install_languages capability introduced in [41268] for this.

I'm doing that in my Preferred Languages feature plugin as well.

This change allows installing new translations when changing the user locale on the profile page if the editing user has the necessary capabilities.

Trac ticket: [](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/38664)

On the settings screen we have a loading spinner to indicate that something/a download is happening. Should we add this here too?

Good idea! Spinner added now

[swissspidy]

In 55099:

I18N: Allow installing new translations when changing the user locale on the profile page.

Up until now, new translations could only be installed via Settings -> General.
When editing the user profile, one could only select locales that were already installed.

This change allows also installing new translations if the editing user has the necessary capabilities.

Props barryceelen, johnbillion, ocean90, swissspidy.
Fixes #38664.

Merged in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/55099

[swissspidy]

Looks like the language spinner JS (added in [55099], but also exists elsewhere) could be adjusted a little bit.

If a plugin like Preferred Languages completely removes the #WPLANG/#locale input, languageSelect.find( 'option:selected' ).data( 'installed' ) is also falsey, causing the spinner to be displayed all the time, even if there were no new languages added.

Could be as simple as:

-if ( ! languageSelect.find( 'option:selected' ).data( 'installed' ) ) {
+if ( languageSelect && ! languageSelect.find( 'option:selected' ).data( 'installed' ) ) {

[swissspidy]

This will be added to the dedicated i18n dev note

[milana_cap]

Dev note ​https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/03/i18n-improvements-in-6-2/