Title: Language selection “auto” does not work
Last modified: May 4, 2018

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# Language selection “auto” does not work

 *  Resolved [mrboats](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpseiskaadmin/)
 * (@wpseiskaadmin)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-selection-auto-does-not-work/)
 * Trying to take your plugin into use. Mostly doing OK but on my site, however 
   the “auto” setting for the language does not work. I can set the language manually
   to Finnish and it works, but the “auto” mode does not recognize Finnish (locale
   fi_FI), hreflang=”fi”, instead shows english texts on buttons.

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 *  Plugin Author [Jan-Peter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/starguide/)
 * (@starguide)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-selection-auto-does-not-work/#post-10255969)
 * The auto detection does not work, if you use a caching plugin (or caching of 
   any other kind). The best and only option is to choose the language manually 
   in this case.
 * Cheers
    JP
 *  Thread Starter [mrboats](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpseiskaadmin/)
 * (@wpseiskaadmin)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-selection-auto-does-not-work/#post-10256768)
 * As a general observation that clearly is not correct as many plugins manage to
   handle this situation correctly (by calling get_locale() “inline”) and not being
   able to support auto effectively means that the plugin is not usable on any multilingual
   site.
 *  Plugin Author [Jan-Peter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/starguide/)
 * (@starguide)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-selection-auto-does-not-work/#post-10272000)
 * That’s just me being tired: What I wanted to say is, that because the way it 
   is implemented in Shariff it does not work with caching.
 * I’ll added a new option in 4.5 that is based on the locale set by WPML and others.
   Just be aware that you still need to set a default language, because get_locale()
   does not work in all situations and might also sometimes return wrong values.
   If get_locale() does not return a correct value or anything at all, Shariff will
   fall back to the default language.
 * Hope that suits your needs a bit better than the original Shariff solution.
 * Cheers
    JP
 *  Thread Starter [mrboats](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpseiskaadmin/)
 * (@wpseiskaadmin)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-selection-auto-does-not-work/#post-10274904)
 * Thanks, now it works nicely!
    -  This reply was modified 8 years ago by [mrboats](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpseiskaadmin/).

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