I’m in the process of migrating a pretty complex site to Trellis (finally). The last thing I need to tackle is localizing automated reminder ticket mails to users who ordered a trip via the site. I use Polylang for localization. On the shared host I was on I had a cron running which set’s the users…

[image] roberto: I’m indeed getting an error using your approach on first deploy Yes, but it should work on the second one. I’ll get back to this next week and try to come up with a fixed version. I also saw that wp-cli has changed, you have to update languages for themes and plugins separa…

Thanks @ben ! Thank you so much for your reply. I really appreciate it. I tried to search for an answer before posting but it never came to mind that the answer might lay in installing WP language packs via the CLI. My site is already configured and deployed in Dutch and the WP language files are in…

Got this working by using the approach as suggested by @mockey . Thanks! Might it make sense to implement this in Trellis core?

@roberto : That’s nice to hear. I didn’t get much feedback on my suggestion otherwise. IMO this definitely belongs into the core (as a configurable option, as I laid out). There are some problems on first deploy (when wordpress is not installed yet) but I think @strarsis provided some fixes for th…

Hi @mockey . Thanks, I will check out that fix because I’m planning to deploy to production soon.

I’m indeed getting an error using your approach on first deploy. I have yet to find the fix in @starsis replies. This stuff is complicated. Learning so much :slight_smile:

@roberto : This is the approach I currently use for installing WordPress core and plugin languages: [image] Adding wp language files on deploy trellis Updated approach: Ensure finished WordPress setup and installing additonal languages in finalize-after site hook: In…

[image] strarsis: optimizing the download/update of language packages on each deploy Why not use a shared folder for laanguages?

So sorry @starsis, I’m really having trouble following your post. It must be my limited knowledge in this matter. Thanks a lot for your reply though.

Cool, keep me posted :slight_smile: For now deploying two times after a fresh provision isn’t that much of a hassle.

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