Can't change site language

  • flipside

    (@flipside)


    9 years ago

    I’m trying to change the site language by using the drop-down in setting=>general. I select a new language, click save, and when the page refreshes the languages has returned to English (US).

    This is a screen capture, although the hosting site seems to be having problems at the moment.

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  • Its hard to know exactly why this is happening, it could be that you’r host storage is full and WordPress wont download the language file. First I would try installing a language plugin. try this one: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordpress-language/

    If WordPress is displaying any errors when trying to click save, please post them.

    Thread Starter flipside

    (@flipside)

    Hi,

    Thanks for the response. I do have a language plugin installed – WPML. There are no error messages displayed, which makes it difficult to track what is happening.

    I apologise I may have given you the wrong help information. Just so I can be clear on what you are trying to do and give you the best info can you please tell me if are you trying to translate posts and pages or trying to change the language used in the Admin Dashboard for WordPress? As you can probably guess what i’m leading to here is, WordPress does not require a plugin to translate any text that comes built into WordPress, but you will need a plugin such as WPML to translate any text/literature that is published.

    But back to your original query: the only thing I can think of is that WPML may be conflicting with WordPress default language settings, but I doubt this, it may be a good idea to address this issue on the WPML help forums, hopefully someone with more technical knowledge sees this post.

    Here are some links that I hope might be helpful:

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