At Medusa, we’ve always focused heavily on empowering businesses to build products for a global audience with features like multi-currency and multi-regional support.
Today, we are excited to bring the same level of internationalization to Medusa Admin with the introduction of multi-language support. Multi-language support allows merchants to operate Medusa Admin in their preferred language by choosing from already-supported locales or creating new translations themselves.
This version includes translations in English, French, and Portuguese.
Configuring your language
To configure your preferred locale, navigate to your store settings and select it from the list of supported languages:
The configuration will be specific to you and stored in your browser. This means you don’t have to worry about messing up your co-workers’ experience when choosing the locale for your Medusa Admin. However, this also means you might occasionally need to re-configure it if the browser storage is cleared.
What’s next?
Multi-language support in Medusa Admin is the first step toward a fully internationalized merchant experience.
In the future, we will ship multi-language support to Widgets and UI Routes, so your Admin Extensions are displayed according to the locale setting of your store.
Additionally, we plan to support translation overrides, enabling you to replace existing translations with your own from your Medusa project. This feature will be useful in creating a bespoke merchant experience and will ensure that you can use admin extensions even if they are yet to be translated by the plugin author.
Acknowledgments
Multi-language support was built entirely by community contributors Geoffroy Empain and Mohammad Javad. We owe them a huge thanks.
This is another testimony to open-source software's power and a great motivation for us (and you) never to stop building in public.
