Preferred Languages
Choose languages for displaying WordPress in, in order of preference.
5(17 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Preferred Languages is a WordPress i18n plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 17 reviews. It has been downloaded 108K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.6+ and PHP 7.2.24+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Downloads are up 15% this week. Top alternative: Loco Translate.
5/517 reviews
2.0K+active installs
108K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
Thanks to language packs it’s easier than ever before to change the main language of your site.
However, in some cases a single locale is not enough. When WordPress can’t find a translation for the active locale, it falls back to the original English strings.
That’s a poor user experience for many non-English speakers.
This feature project aims to change that by letting users choose multiple languages for displaying WordPress in.
That way you can set some sort of “fallback chain” where WordPress tries to load translations in your preferred order.
Please help us test this plugin and let us know if something is not working as you think it should.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Arrow Up: Move selected locale one position up.Arrow Down: Move selected locale one position down.Ho…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
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by evZek·3 years ago
Es un plugin, imprescindible en cualquier instalación fuera del inglés.
Should be in the core!
by David Perez·3 years ago
Awesome plugin!
Make this a core feature
by Pieterjan Deneys·3 years ago·1 reply
I honestly think that this should be a core feature of WP.
The only thing wrong I notice is that when you are looking at the front end… The language of the admin bar changes into the site language but that’s the only issue I have with this plugin at the time of writing. For the rest, it’s a dream plugin.
awesome-plugin: from me 5 stars (i would give even more if it would be possible)
by tangermaroc·5 years ago
a very cool plugin.
this is a truely great plugin, You can use it for many purposes.
It works great right out of the box, but is very easy to customize to suit your needs.
my current use-case: i use this plugin to power up my page – which has visitors from several european Countries. I’m using this plugin to manage a small job-site: And i have to say: I love this plugin.
And if it comes to support: it is so awesome to see that all is documented so well and good: You can do so much with this plugin:
if you need to customize it towards your special use-case: just look at the documentation (and again have a look at the docs) Read those instructions – they are written so well, people. There’s a lot of detail there and alltogehter i have to say: it’s super well documented!
Amazing job: i love this plugin,
from me 5 stars – (i would give even more if it would be possible)
keep up this awesome and outstanding job – it rocks!!!
Very necessary in core
by capbussat·5 years ago
I think this should be in Core for websites with several possible languages. I like it very much! Specially I appreciate that each user can also choose languages from the selected languages.
(I am developing a translation plugin for my own needs to use Google Translate to translate posts/pages and complement it.)
- This topic was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by capbussat.
Download Trends
Today: 25Yesterday: 22This week: 179Period total: 13K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2.24+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.4
71.5%
Other
12.0%
v2.3
10.3%
v1.8
6.2%
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For the plugin’s changelog, please head over to the GitHub repository.
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