Title: Different default language for admin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Different default language for admin

 *  Resolved [pierrestoffe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pierrestoffe/)
 * (@pierrestoffe)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/different-default-language-for-admin/)
 * Hi!
 * First I have to say Polylang is a tremendous plugin and it’s the first multi-
   language plugin I actually like using.
    I’m stuck on an small issue though.
 * The website I’m working on is for a french-speaking company. A Dutch version 
   and an English one are also available thanks to Polylang. If I’m right, when 
   a visitor does not speak one of these languages, he’s redirected to the default
   language. So I set the default language to English.
 * But by setting the default language to English, it also changed the default language
   for adding a new post, which I’d prefer it didn’t (I want it to be French by 
   default). Of course the editor still can manually change the post language to
   French, but I’m sure there’s a way to do it automatically.
 * Can somebody help me? Does anybody have a clue how to do it?
 * Thanks in advance,
    Pierre
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/)
 * (@chouby)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/different-default-language-for-admin/#post-4657429)
 * The default language for adding a new post can be set by the admin language filter
   in the admin bar on top of your screen.
 *  Thread Starter [pierrestoffe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pierrestoffe/)
 * (@pierrestoffe)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/different-default-language-for-admin/#post-4657444)
 * Hi Chouby,
 * Are you talking about [this bar](http://cl.ly/UASf)? If so, it also hides the
   content created in other languages, which is not what I’m trying to accomplish.
   
   I’d like all the content to be listed (whatever the language) and force the default
   language for a new post to be set to French.
 * I understand your solution works though, but I have to put myself in my client’s
   shoes: they’ve never used WordPress, the interface isn’t that easy to get for
   a newcomer, they’re stressed by the amount of things they see and the amount 
   of things they have to learn. So even if your solution seems completely natural
   to us, they surely won’t feel the same 🙂
 * Would you have another idea? Thanks for your help!
 *  Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/)
 * (@chouby)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/different-default-language-for-admin/#post-4657558)
 * So you will have to make a custom plugin with something like:
 *     ```
       add_filter('pll_admin_preferred_language', 'my_preferred_language');
       function my_preferred_language($lang) {
         global $polylang;
         return $polylang->model->get_language('fr');
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [pierrestoffe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pierrestoffe/)
 * (@pierrestoffe)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/different-default-language-for-admin/#post-4657559)
 * Thanks a lot! Exactly what I needed.
 * Have a nice w-e,
    Pierre

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/different-default-language-for-admin/#post-4657559)
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