Post language with multilingual plugin

Resolved Louis Chance
(@louischan)

1 week, 1 day ago

Hi,

I’m using Polylang to generate multilingual versions of my posts.

I’ve noticed that after creating a translation of a post from French to Spanish, and publishing it, the Spanish post it showing up in Mastodon with the language set to French.

Am I missing something to set up the Fediverse post language to the WordPress post language?

Thanks for your help!

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Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle
(@pfefferle)

1 week ago

Hey @louischan 👋

I am sorry, but there is no support for Polylangs custom multilang implementation in the ActivityPub plugin (yet), that is why ActivityPub falls back to the default language.

WordPress does not provide a generic way to set a language for a post, so we (would) have to implement a custom handling for every implementation.

Thread Starter Louis Chance
(@louischan)

1 week ago

Hi @pfefferle thanks for the quick reply!

Ok then it makes total sense 🙂

I’m wondering if I could manually edit the language of the post after publication by using the Friends and MastodonEnable Mastodon Apps on top of the Activitypub plugin?

Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle
(@pfefferle)

1 week ago

I experimented a bit. Maybe you can verify if it works?

https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/3756

I’m wondering if I could manually edit the language of the post after publication by using the Friends and MastodonEnable Mastodon Apps on top of the Activitypub plugin?

Definitely, but I am not sure if it will work out of the box, because in the end it is the same issue: WordPress does not provide a generic way to store a per post language. But it might be possible to implement a similar compatibility layer that stores the lang in the correct polylang, WPML, … format.

Thread Starter Louis Chance
(@louischan)

1 week ago

What an amazingly fast reply and fix 😀

I answered on github, it seems to work!
Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle
(@pfefferle)

1 week ago
☺️

Thank you for testing it!
- This reply was modified 1 week ago by Matthias Pfefferle.
Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle
(@pfefferle)

3 days, 17 hours ago
@louischan inspired by your idea ☺️
- https://github.com/akirk/enable-mastodon-apps/pull/335
- https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/3777

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