Is Language Fallback free?

Yes, Language Fallback is free to use. It is available as a free plugin on WordPress.org.

How many websites use Language Fallback?

Language Fallback has 6.0K+ active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

What are the best Language Fallback alternatives?

Popular alternatives to Language Fallback include Bogo, Admin Locale, Localize WordPress. You can compare them side-by-side on our comparison pages.

Does Language Fallback work with the latest WordPress?

Language Fallback has been tested up to WordPress 6.9.4. It requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.6+.

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Language Fallback

Name: Language Fallback
Rating: 4.8 (23 reviews)
Author: Bernhard Kau

Set a language as a fallback for the chosen language (e.g. "Deutsch" as a fallback for "Deutsch (Sie)")

By Bernhard Kau·Locale·Free

4.8(23 reviews)

·6.0K+ active installs·Updated 5 months ago

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As of April 2026, Language Fallback is a WordPress locale plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 23 reviews. It has been downloaded 55K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Downloads are down 25% this week. Top alternative: Bogo.

4.8/523 reviews

6.0K+active installs

55K+total downloads

11 yearssince 2015

Overview

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

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Recent Reviews

Effektive Sprachunterstützung mit Language-Fallback

by Oliver Heinrich·3 years ago

Als Nutzer des WordPress Plugins “Language-Fallback” bin ich äußerst zufrieden mit der hervorragenden Unterstützung für mehrsprachige Websites. Die Funktion des Plugins, automatisch die Sprache einer Seite zu erkennen und eine entsprechende Fallback Sprache anzuzeigen, funktioniert einwandfrei und trägt dazu bei, dass Besucher aus verschiedenen Sprachregionen eine bessere Benutzererfahrung haben.

Besonders beeindruckend finde ich, wie einfach das Plugin zu installieren und zu konfigurieren ist.

Ich schätze auch die reibungslose Integration mit anderen WordPress-Plugins und -Themes. Es gab keinerlei Konflikte oder Probleme bei der Verwendung von Language-Fallback in Verbindung mit anderen Erweiterungen.

Insgesamt kann ich das WordPress-Plugin Language-Fallback jedem empfehlen, der eine mehrsprachige Website betreibt oder betreiben möchte.

This topic was modified 3 years ago by Oliver Heinrich.

Eigentlich ein muss für jede deutsche Seite

by protostern·4 years ago

Wer bei einer deutschen (Firmen)Seite seine Besucher nicht versehentlich mit ‘Du’ anreden will, für den ist dieses Plugin ein Muss. Danke Bernhard!

Works like a charm

by Matt Jaworski·5 years ago

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

Best

by Andrea·7 years ago

Best solution for me. Using “German_formal” and “German”…this plugin simply helps me out of missing translations.

This plugin saved my day

by kastoberlin·7 years ago

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!