Provide Article Option for Associated Languages to display Language Name instead of default Language Codes

[srcarney]

I have a multilingual site and have chosen to Show the Associations but to not show the Image Flags. As a result instead language codes are displayed such as en-EN, fr-FR, pt-BR, etc...

I want to display the language name (English, Française, Português etc) instead of the language code.

In order to do this it appears we need to do template overrides which seems overly complicated for this task. I would like to suggest that another option be added to the Articles Options in the same section with the choices for Associations and Language Flags as follows:

Which is that if the language flags are set to Never and the Associations are set to Show, there be an option to display the Content Languages Title, or Native Title instead of the default Language Tag

Approval Information

Approved: 16.09.2026
Minimum Target Version: 7.0

[drmenzelit]

We (Maintainers) are not sure where do want to apply the changes. Are you talking about backend or frontend? Can you post some screenshots?

[brianteeman]

I assumed it was here

[srcarney]

Thank you Viviana and Brian for your reply. And... a 1,000 apologies for not being clearer.

What I am really wanting is to display the languages using their language name and not the language codes on the front end. This is for the public readership to see. I am not concerned about the administrator interface at all.

[srcarney]

I would prefer the characters to appear as: Française Português Русский Español Українська

[brianteeman]

ok - i see what you mean now. its a very simple template override does it really need to be an option ?

[srcarney]

Thanks Brian,
I have never done a template override, and am a little hesitant. But, I guess now is a good time for me to learn how. Although, I suspect there are other people besides myself that would like to display this in the regular language names rather than displaying the language codes and it would be a lot easier to select an option than to do a template override.
I would see it having two options:

1. Display the names in the language of the article, in this case English: ie. French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
2. Display the names in their actual native language: Française Português Русский Español Українська
   My preference is option 2. :-)

[srcarney]

I am thinking that if a person decides to Show Associations there should be four options:

1. Use Image Flags
2. Use Language Title
3. Use Language Native Title
4. Use Language Language Tag

[srcarney]

[drmenzelit]

The Joomla Maintainer Team decided at the 16.09.2026 meeting to accept this feature.

[srcarney]

Thank you for the very good news. How long does it usually take from being accepted to being released? Faith - Family - Friends - Fun. Take time for all four. Then back to work!

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 11:10 Viviana Menzel ***@***.***> wrote: *The Joomla Maintainer Team decided at the 16.09.2026 meeting to accept this feature.*

[brianteeman]

Pull request done see #48477

[LadySolveig]

@srcarney Unfortunately, no one can give you any firm timelines or guarantees at this point. That depends on the proposed solution and, ultimately, the commitment of the human testers. If the PR that Brian submitted meets your expectations, it’s important to continue supporting the developer with feedback and, above all, by conducting a test. How to Patch testing

At this point, new features will be included in version 6.3 at the earliest, which is currently scheduled for April 2027. The roadmap will certainly be updated again soon.