Language Fallback

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1. ★★★★★ Oliver Heinrich

   3.5y 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, 4 months ago by Oliver Heinrich.

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2. ★★★★★ protostern

   5.3y ago

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

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3. ★★★★★ Matt Jaworski

   6.4y ago

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

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4. ★★★★★ Andrea

   7.5y ago

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

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5. ★★★★★ kastoberlin

   7.9y 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!

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6. ★★★★★ Felipe Romero

   8.2y ago

   Imprescindible en instalaciones para variedades del idioma Español, como Español de México.

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7. ★★★★★ zielniok

   9.0y ago

   Es hört sich vielleicht komisch an, aber dieses Plugin hätte 6 Sterne verdient, dafür, dass es genau das macht, was es soll und nicht mehr oder weniger – wie gefühlte 99% der anderen Plugins. 👏🏽👏👏🏾👏🏻👏🏼👏🏿 Herzlichen Dank an Bernhard

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8. ★★★★★ dezemberundjuli

   9.4y ago

   Macht was es muss.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.1.1 Fix wrong version number in PHP file and readme Time invested for this release: 10min 2.1.1
2. — Version 2.1.0 Add sanitize_callback for setting Increment Tested up to Add link to Patchstack in readme Time invested for this release: 30min 2.1.0
3. — Version 2.0.1 Fix some minor Plugin Check issues Increment Tested up to Time invested for this release: 20min 2.0.1
4. — Version 2.0.0 Implement a solution for “_load_textdomain_just_in_time” function not loading the fallback “.mo” files Time invested for this release: 150min 2.0.0
5. — Version 1.0.5 Increment Tested up to Time invested for this release: 10min 1.0.5
6. — Version 1.0.4 Remove the languages folder and prepare the plugin for automated deployments Time invested for this release: 10min 1.0.4

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.3

Translated into 18 languages, 11 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-04-20 6K+ → 5K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-04-19 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-04-18 6K+ → 5K+ down after 1071 days in tier
4. 2023-05-13 7K+ → 6K+ down after 109 days in tier
5. 2023-01-24 6K+ → 7K+ up after 1 days in tier
6. 2023-01-23 7K+ → 6K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Polylang 800K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags B
• Bogo 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A
• A Admin Locale 6K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
• Translate and Go multilingual – Automatic AI translation – wpLingua 2K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags A
• Preferred Languages 2K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags A
• GPTranslate – Multilingual AI Translation for WordPress: Translate Websites with AI Agents 500+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A

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Language Fallback: 5K+ active installs, 4.8★ (23 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/language-fallback