Title: Post language with multilingual plugin
Last modified: September 10, 2026

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# Post language with multilingual plugin

 *  Resolved [Louis Chance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/louischan/)
 * (@louischan)
 * [1 week, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-language-with-multilingual-plugin/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/)
 * (@pfefferle)
 * [1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-language-with-multilingual-plugin/#post-19017373)
 * Hey [@louischan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/louischan/)
 * (@louischan)
 * [1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-language-with-multilingual-plugin/#post-19017422)
 * Hi [@pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/)
 * (@pfefferle)
 * [1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-language-with-multilingual-plugin/#post-19017434)
 * I experimented a bit. Maybe you can verify if it works?
 * [https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/3756](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/louischan/)
 * (@louischan)
 * [1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-language-with-multilingual-plugin/#post-19017642)
 * What an amazingly fast reply and fix 😀
 * I answered on github, it seems to work!
 *  Plugin Author [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/)
 * (@pfefferle)
 * [1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-language-with-multilingual-plugin/#post-19017659)
 * ☺️
 * Thank **you** for testing it!
    -  This reply was modified 1 week ago by [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/).
 *  Plugin Author [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/)
 * (@pfefferle)
 * [3 days, 13 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-language-with-multilingual-plugin/#post-19020655)
 * [@louischan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/louischan/) inspired by your
   idea ☺️
    - [https://github.com/akirk/enable-mastodon-apps/pull/335](https://github.com/akirk/enable-mastodon-apps/pull/335)
    - [https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/3777](https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/3777)

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 * Last reply from: [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/)
 * Last activity: [3 days, 13 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-language-with-multilingual-plugin/#post-19020655)
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