mageplaza/magento-2-french-language-pack

Magento 2 French Language Pack

In this free topic, Magento 2 French Language Pack is referred to give you two steps of setting language. Today, you can remove the language barrier in the simple way if you really want to approach French clients. The only thing you need to do is transferring the default language of Magento 2 CE into French language via the following instructions.

Mageplaza French language pack

Overview

Language Package Process
Install French Language Pack
How to active French language pack
How to contribute
Supported Magento versions
Notes
Language package authors

1. Language Package Process

This is status of French Language Pack, you can see how many percentage of this project has been done.

French language pack process

It is not fully translated? Feel free to contribute:

On Crowdin: It takes time to approve your contribution by Magento team.
On Github: It's faster, our team will approve it after you send pull request.

Find other language packs here

2. How to Install French Language Pack

There are 3 different methods to install this language pack.

✓ Method #1. Composer method (Recommend)

Install the French language pack via composer is never easier.

Install French pack:

With Marketing Automation (recommend):

composer require mageplaza/magento-2-french-language-pack:dev-master mageplaza/module-smtp 
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy fr_FR
php bin/magento indexer:reindex
php bin/magento cache:clean
php bin/magento cache:flush

Without Marketing Automation:

composer require mageplaza/magento-2-french-language-pack:dev-master
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy fr_FR
php bin/magento indexer:reindex
php bin/magento cache:clean
php bin/magento cache:flush

Update French pack:

composer update mageplaza/magento-2-french-language-pack:dev-master
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy fr_FR
php bin/magento indexer:reindex
php bin/magento cache:clean
php bin/magento cache:flush

Authentication required (If any)

Authentication required

If you have not added this authentication, you can follow this guide

Or use these keys:

Public Key: c7af1bfc9352e9c986637eec85ed53af
Private Key: 17e1b72ea5f0b23e9dbfb1f68dc12b53

✓ Method #2. Copy & Paste method (Not recommended)

This method suitable for non-technical people such as merchants. Just download the package then flush cache.

Overview

Step 1: Download the French language pack
Step 2: Unzip French pack
Step 3: Flush Magento 2 Cache

Step 1 : Download the French language pack

You can download the language pack from above link

Step 2: Unzip French pack

Unzip the French language pack to Magento 2 root folder. In this guide, we extract to /var/www/html/ Your Magento 2 root folder can be: /home/account_name/yourstore.com/public_html/

unzip master.zip app/i18n/Mageplaza/

Rename folder magento-2-french-language-pack to fr_fr.

You also can unzip locally and upload them to Magento 2 root folder.

Step 3: Flush Magento 2 Cache

Follow this guide to Flush Cache on your Magento 2 store

✓ Method #3. Download and install manually (Not recommended)

To download and install French pack manually, you have to access to your server via FTP or SFTP.

Step 1: Download the package

Step 1: Unzip and upload

Unzip the compressed file and upload file master.zip into app/i18n/Mageplaza/fr_fr/

See this screenshot:

French pack

This language pack code is: fr_fr

Step 2: Flush cache

Follow this guide to Flush Cache on your Magento 2 store

3. How to Active the French language pack

Now time to active the French language pack for your Magento 2 store. From Magento 2 admin panel, navigate to Stores > Configuration > General > Locale Options {{Magento 2 French language pack}}

4. How to contribute

Contribute to this language at :

On Crowdin: It takes time to approve your contribution by Magento team.
On Github: It's faster, our team will approve it after you send pull request.

5. Supported Magento versions

It supports all Magento 2 versions include Magento 2 open-source (Community), Magento 2 Commerce (EE), Magento Cloud, Magento B2B, Magento MSI.

Magento v2.0.x
Magento v2.1.x
Magento v2.2.x
Magento v2.3.x
Magento v2.4.x