{"id":18991890,"date":"2026-08-12T19:51:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/wordpress-core-multilingual-roadmap-and-multisite-language-switcher\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:51:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:51:54","slug":"wordpress-core-multilingual-roadmap-and-multisite-language-switcher","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/wordpress-core-multilingual-roadmap-and-multisite-language-switcher\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Core Multilingual Roadmap and Multisite Language Switcher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I manage several WordPress installs, including Multisite, single-site, and one WPML site, and I\u2019m planning a <strong>new multilingual build in the next 3\u20135 weeks<\/strong>. From the current WordPress roadmap, 7.1 is planned for 19 August 2026 and <strong>7.2 for 10 December 2026<\/strong>, with <strong>multilingual support core implementation<\/strong> listed only as long-term Phase 4 roadmap work, <strong>not yet as a confirmed feature for 7.2 or is it? <\/strong>Seems somewhere I saw such a claim, but can&#8217;t find a link. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My question is: is there any possible insight or guidance on how the upcoming core multilingual work is expected to affect Multisite Language Switcher? In particular, <strong>could WP core multilingual support eventually complement Multisite Language Switcher<\/strong> rather than be &#8220;useless&#8221; in the first iteration for Multisite (only be optimized for single site language plugins), and are there likely advantages for Multisite-based multilingual setups?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18991890","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-multilingual","topic-tag-multisite","topic-tag-wordpres"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18991890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18991890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18991890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}