Why can't language be changed? about heroku-wp HOT 4 CLOSED

This is because WP is set to read-only mode which disables the ability of WP from downloading language packs on demand. This is done because the Heroku dyno FS should be considered temporary / ephemeral. As new dynos are spun up and down any data downloaded to a single dyno will not exist on any of the others.

It looks like language packs are not going to be supported by wpackagist (outlandishideas/wpackagist#37) which means to fix this some sort of post install script will need to be used to get composer to grab additional language packs.

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Thank you for explaining :)

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@algodave so after thinking about this I think the best way to go about this is to manually commit the language files into the cloned repo. I have not tried it however the following should work.

Create public/wp-content/languages then download the .mo file for the lang you want (http://wpcentral.io/internationalization/) into it and comment.

If you want to give this a try and it works would you mind updating the README with this information and sending in a pull request?

Thanks!

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Closing this issue as #31 explains how to add languages.

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