Woocommerce language different from WordPress language

  • depvn

    (@depvn)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    I want the WP-adminpages to be in English but the Woocommerce shop shall run in Vietnamese. As far as I can see, I can only switch both languages via the general WP language setting. So I can have the WP-adminpages AND the shop in English or in Vietnamese. But the shop must be in Vietnamese and the WP-adminpages must stay in English as there are people from different nations working on it.

    I don’t need information how to setup a Woocommerce shop in another language than English. In my installation both languages work perfect. But I can’t set the WP-admin language to English while the shop is running in Vietnamese at the same time.

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  • Plugin Support Riaan K.

    (@riaanknoetze)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Languages are only set on a sitewide basis; WordPress doesn’t allow for various sections to run different languages at the same time.

    The closest to that will be WordPress 4.7, which will allow languages to be selected on a per-user basis.

    Thread Starter depvn

    (@depvn)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Riaan,

    thank you very much for that quick reply. I think it’s already the answer. But I am not 100 percent sure if I expressed correctly what I need.
    I don’t want the WP-admin page to be divided into two languages. So I don’t need the whole WP-admin page in English and the Woocommerce-adminsection in Vietnamese.

    The whole admin-page including the woocommerce-section must be in English. But the Frontend, that means the internet page itself with it’s shop, should run in Vietnamese.

    I thought there’s maybe a solution like editing the sourcecode of the woocommerce-headersection php file in a way like that (written here in a very non-technical way):

    function set_language_pack ‘woocommerce-vi.po’

    But maybe your answer is already covering these thoughts. Thanks again.

    con

    (@conschneider)

    Engineer

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hi there,

    In that case you can use this plugin to set the dashboard only to english.
    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-native-dashboard/ – it is a litte outdated so be careful as in have a backup ready:
    Here are some tips on how to do so: http://conschneider.de/how-to-backup-your-wordpress-database-and-files/

    Set the WordPress general settings to Vietnamese. That should do it.

    Thread Starter depvn

    (@depvn)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Thank you Con. That’s exactly what I need. And it’s working perfectly.

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