How to BLOCK the backend from changing language

  • My site is a multilingual site, but the only person working on it is me. I do not speak all the languages I have on my site but I have external translators etc.

    I use wordpresss, woocommerce, and WPML for multi-lingual and multi-currency.

    My problem is, when I need to fix something on a translated page, say in French, my entire back-end changes to French. I do not understand the Elementor Commands in French, I do not understand anything anymore and I cannot fix the thing that would be so easy to fix if the back-end stayed in English.

    Since I have virtually NO USE for a translated back-end, is there a way to DISABLE the admin user language switching while still keeping the translations of my site?

    I have searched now for hours but the only results I find is how to fix it when it doesn’t switch language properly. Which is not what I need. I want front-end language switching and back-end ALWAYS in English. Is it possible?

    Thanks!

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  • It’s possible, I use this but didn’t work with WPML until now.

    You can choose the language in your profile setting: Profile > Language.
    This option is only available if on the site there are other languages.

    If it will not work, try to ask WPML support.

    I have figure out a way to do it; However, please do so at your own risk. I was able to edit the option out and it seems like there is no other effects other than defaulting to English.

    Edit out in the following path:
    `/home/hostname/public_html/wp-admin/options.php

    line 92 WPLANG

    I did not delete the line, I just ignore it. Once it was ignored and the file was updated I was able to check my settings and tried to change the language and it wont change to anything else or install any new language.

    Hope it works!

    Thread Starter jkocken

    (@jkocken)

    @kxeo1 Your solution worked. I just added “//” to ignore that line of code and the wordpress back-end no longer switches language when I select something in another language to edit. However, Elementor still changes to the other language… Any ideas how I can stop Elementor from changing too? (I will also see on their own website as I guess this is now a more specific Elementor thing to handle.
    Thanks for your help!

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