This is a really old feature request, but I also believe that i18n and i10n are important issues!
I’ve renamed the topic of this feature request to be more specific to this effort. @maximebj – you mention a few things in the original topic. Since this is such a broad topic, we’ll likely need to break it down into smaller pieces, but let me see if I understand the general groupings of this request.
Be able to explicitly set the language for a WordPress site during the site-creation process.
Provide translations for Local’s legal documents. Just double-checking – I think you’re referring to this page on the Local website, which the Local App links to:
I was just talking about a side effect in the site : when installing WP in english, the privacy policy page is generated by WP in english once for all, so even if we switch language afterward, this page stays in english. It’s a WordPress issue, but installing the site in the correct language in the first place avoids this behavior. So making the first point happen will fix this one too!
Yes : Id love to have Local in French, or other languages. We are teaching WordPress to our student but some of them are not confortable at all with english. Our Course has 99% of french translated solutions and we’d love to have 100% tools and plugins in frenche. Once the feature included, I don’t think there is much work to translate everything and I would be very glad to help for this when it’s ready.
Since I posted this thread, DevKinsta was released and handle multiple languages since day 1. So I think it would be an even greater idea to add this feature for Local too.
We are in April 2022… Still waiting… You don’t forget us ?
Your LocalWP tool is very useful, but being forced to tweak the WordPress just after the installation, it doesn’t really make you want to develop a new project… In our case, we have to change the language options, change the date format, translate the posts/pages automatically created by WordPress, translate the default categories… That’s a lot of fiddling. Impossible to have a clean base in these conditions. It’s a bad experience for any developer who wants to start his project or a client’s project.
As @maximebj mentioned, it should not be complicated to install WP in the right language, since the language is supported natively by WP and it is possible to do it with WP-CLI. At the moment, there is no choice. LocalWP has been around for a long time, I don’t understand how such a ridiculous option is not already in place.
Too bad, the option to choose the language should be very easy to implement (one select control with available languages + adding a parameter to the CLI command, and it’s done).
I use now DevKinsta which is 100% internationalized since day one, and often more reliable than Local (thus I still love LocalWP).