Title: Default language
Last modified: December 15, 2016

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# Default language

 *  Resolved [Alejandro Gil Mialdea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aekschoko/)
 * (@aekschoko)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-language-22/)
 * Hi!
 * How can I define a default language?
 * I mean, I have 3/sites languages
    Spanish: Site ID 1 Deutsch: Site ID 2 English:
   Site ID 3
 * If the user go to a english version, but his browser are in deutsch, to redirect
   him to a deutsch version, Ok, it’s fine.
 * But, if browser are in french, I want to redirect him to a english version. I
   mean, if the browser are in another language that i haven’t site, I want redirect
   to english version by default.
 * I read this topic [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-language-website/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-language-website/)
   without ok results.

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 *  Plugin Author [Frank Bueltge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bueltge/)
 * (@bueltge)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-language-22/#post-8559644)
 * If you will define which language the user should read as fallback, then use 
   the filter `mlp_redirect_url`. How you use the filter in in this support topic,
   your link. Also helpful is the wiki – [https://github.com/inpsyde/multilingual-press/wiki](https://github.com/inpsyde/multilingual-press/wiki)
 * But beware, you have no control about the goal of the readers. Maybe it is better
   you helps him to switch to his prefered language. As example, maybe he has a 
   french language in his browser. You post is available in de, en, arabic. After
   a search like google he view the german post – you redirect him to english, but
   he is a guy, there will read in arabic – maybe easier for him.
 *  [Thorsten Frommen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tfrommen/)
 * (@tfrommen)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-language-22/#post-8567709)
 * Hi there!
 * Like Frank said, you shouldn’t be deciding what’s the best fallback site (language)
   as an absolute truth. Instead, you should assign a priority (i.e., quality) to
   the individual language versions of your website. You can do this in the Language
   Manager (to be found in the Network Admin, under Settings).
 * That way, MultilingualPress and the user’s browser are able to find the most 
   appropriate language – which might neither be the one the user is about to see,
   nor the one you think.
    The fallback is then always the language with the highest
   priority (so you are implicitly able to decide anyway).
 * Hope that helps.
 *  Thread Starter [Alejandro Gil Mialdea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aekschoko/)
 * (@aekschoko)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-language-22/#post-8568689)
 * Hello!
 * Thanks, I didn’t know the utility of “priority” field. Now it’s all fine.
 * Thanks 😉

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 * Last reply from: [Alejandro Gil Mialdea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aekschoko/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-language-22/#post-8568689)
 * Status: resolved