id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc focuses 50112 I18N - Option to set a fallback language arglab "It would be great if WordPress had an option to select which language to use when translations are not available in a locale. Currently, if a translation is not available, WordPress displays the string in English. This is one of the main reasons why many people who create projects for users who speak a Spanish dialect prefer to use `es_ES` instead of their locale. Using `es_AR` as an example, it would be great that, if a user selects `es_AR` for their site, the translations made for that locale have priority, but if some translations are not available, the site uses `es_ES` instead of `en_US`. The current solutions are: * To manually download the translations of `es_ES`, and upload them to the `/languages​​/` folder. However this process is tedious, and I doubt the average user knows how to do it. * Use a plugin like ''Language Fallback''. Including this functionality in the core would increase the use of locales with fewer translations that derive from bigger locales, like `es_X`, `de_X`, `pt_X` and `fe_X`. The language fallback option could be conditional to the selected language: [[Image(https://i.imgur.com/mDSOOjR.gif)]]" feature request closed normal I18N normal duplicate