set global language and text direction

Hi @ramf – that’s definitely a bit odd. As a first question – was this an update to the TwentyTwentyThree theme, or to WordPress (or Gutenberg) itself that caused this change?

Hi @jordesign.
This is a good question – as far as I understand this happened after the last TwentyTwentyThree theme update, but I’m uncertain.

Until few weeks ago (maybe a month) everything worked well, but then I noticed that some of my RTL text got switched to LTR.

When I opened the editor I noticed this new language menu that was not there before (as far as I remember). I tried using it on my paragraph sections one by one – and this seams cumbersome, so I opened this topic to try and find a way to set everything in one place instead of one by one.

Eventually I did go over one by one and changed the text direction. The only problem I have now is with text that have both hebrew text and english text in the same line while set to RTL and to the right alignment

The english text and the numbers are set backwards so instead of Group Expert I see trepxE puorG and the number is set to 586,41 instead of 14,685

if I don’t set heb and RTL in the new menu – in the editor it’s looks good:

But in the real site it’s wrong – the text is not RTL and the line is scrambled – so instead of starting with ??? Group Expert it’s in the end of the line etc:

As you can see in the above picture the text is scrambled so the 2 first words are set to the left and then the 3rd one is back to the right etc.

And when I set the language and text direction the english and numbers are reversed both in the editor and the live site:

again – until recently I had no problems…
How can I set text that have both hebrew and english text to RTL and right align but to keep the text order correctly?

Regards,
Ram

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by Ram Freedman.

Hey @ramf – that’s so very strange. It must be frustrating.

It’s possible this may be a plugin or theme conflict. Please attempt to disable all plugins, and use one of the default (Twenty*) themes. If the problem goes away, enable them one by one to identify the source of your troubles.

If you can install plugins, install and activate “Health Check”: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/health-check/
It will add some additional features under the menu item under Tools > Site Health.
On its troubleshooting tab, you can Enable Troubleshooting Mode. This will disable all plugins, switch to a standard WordPress theme (if available), allow you to turn your plugins on and off and switch between themes, <strong>without affecting normal visitors to your site</strong>. This allows you to test for various compatibility issues.

There’s a more detailed description about how to use the Health Check plugin and its Troubleshooting Mode at https://make.www.ads-software.com/support/handbook/appendix/troubleshooting-using-the-health-check/

Hi @jordesign,
This is unrelated to any plugin.
I have the same problem here in this forum.
Please see this video:
https://youtu.be/JC-SmdJt1OU?si=e7Cao0tZUHfNjfUo

After upgrading to wordpress 6.4 and removing the language menu – it’s working fine again.
So I guess the problem was with wordpress…

Any way – Thanks!

Ram

Hey @ramf – I’m really pleased to hear that’s resolved with the most recent update. Best of luck with the site!