Title: get_language question Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # get_language question * [3×7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3x7/) * (@3x7) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/) * I have a question on get_language… * it works, just that I would like to modify the output… * from “en_US” to only “en”… * Thanks! Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/page/2/?output_format=md) * [grosshat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grosshat/) * (@grosshat) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/#post-3189132) * I am not sure if you are using an own function `get_language` for fetching ISO language. If so, I do not know the specifics of this. * If you just want to get the language used on a blog, use the standard call `bloginfo(' language')`. That returns the ISO, ie. en-US. From there you can decorate it with a helper function so: * ``` ``` * Thread Starter [3×7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3x7/) * (@3x7) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/#post-3189134) * Thanks, * I tried with all the code including ``` * Thread Starter [3×7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3x7/) * (@3x7) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/#post-3189154) * Sorry to bother you so much, I tried all kind of combinations and had no luck… It actually gets the language with no errors now, but it still outputs the original“ en-US”. * Thanks * [grosshat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grosshat/) * (@grosshat) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/#post-3189161) * Well, do not give up. 😉 * Are you using the value returned by the function `get_short_lang()` (ie. $lang)? This is the value you need. * Thread Starter [3×7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3x7/) * (@3x7) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/#post-3189169) * yes I tried with echo also… no luck… * [grosshat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grosshat/) * (@grosshat) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/#post-3189170) * Where are you calling that code? At `functions.php` level or template level? * Thread Starter [3×7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3x7/) * (@3x7) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/#post-3189171) * From admin panel, it’s an export plugin. * [grosshat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grosshat/) * (@grosshat) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/#post-3189172) * Oki. The code I gave you is working as plain PHP. You can test it and see that. The problem could be the way the function is called on the plugin. * So, do not call a function, just parse directly the value of the ISO. * ``` echo substr(bloginfo('language'), 0, 2); ``` * Thread Starter [3×7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3x7/) * (@3x7) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/#post-3189179) * tried that before… strange but outputs “en-US” * [grosshat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grosshat/) * (@grosshat) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/#post-3189189) * That is weird. :/ * How do you get when you do `print_r` for each value? * `print_r(bloginfo('language'))` `print_r(substr(bloginfo('language'), 0, 2))` * Thread Starter [3×7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3x7/) * (@3x7) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/#post-3189190) * same “en-US” 😐 * [grosshat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grosshat/) * (@grosshat) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/#post-3189191) * Something going wrong. :/ * If you give the value to a variable and then make a `substr`, what do you get? * > $iso = ‘en-US’; > $lang = substr( $iso, 0, 2 ); print_r( $lang ); * Thread Starter [3×7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3x7/) * (@3x7) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/#post-3189202) * This works, I get only “en” * [grosshat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grosshat/) * (@grosshat) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/#post-3189213) * Yep. So, why does not work when you use the value returned by `bloginfo('language')`?:/ Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘get_language question’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [multi-language](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multi-language/) * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/) * 16 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [3×7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3x7/) * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_language-question/page/2/#post-3189215) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics