Title: Preferred Locale
Author: Sam Bull
Published: <strong>March 16, 2017</strong>
Last modified: January 9, 2019

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Preferred Locale

 By [Sam Bull](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dreamsorcerer/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/preferred-locale.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/preferred-locale/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/preferred-locale/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/preferred-locale/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/preferred-locale/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/preferred-locale/)

## Description

Sets the site locale dynamically according to visitor preference.
 This preference
comes from the user’s browser.

To install all available translations click the ‘Install All’ button in Settings-
>General.
 To install individual locales, select the site language and save changes
for each locale you want to install.

Technical details:
 Will parse the Accept-Language HTTP header and find the best
matching language for the user from the translations available on the site.

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/preferred-locale` directory,
    or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.

## FAQ

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## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Preferred Locale” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Sam Bull ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dreamsorcerer/)

“Preferred Locale” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/preferred-locale/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Preferred Locale” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/preferred-locale)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/preferred-locale/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/preferred-locale/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/preferred-locale/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/preferred-locale/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.2

 * Fix: wp_get_available_translations() not available error.

#### 1.1

 * Fix: en and en_US locale not getting selected in some cases.

#### 1.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.0.25**
 *  Languages
 * [Dutch (Belgium)](https://nl-be.wordpress.org/plugins/preferred-locale/) and 
   [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/preferred-locale/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/preferred-locale)
 * Tags
 * [language](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/language/)[locale](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/locale/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/preferred-locale/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Sam Bull ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dreamsorcerer/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/preferred-locale/)

## Donate

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 [ Donate to this plugin ](https://sambull.org/)