My wordpress is in spanish but my website is in english what shoud I do?

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Problem:
The client is trying to set up WPML on their website, which is in Spanish, but the content is in English. They need guidance on how to configure the default and secondary languages.
Solution:
We recommend deciding which language you want to appear as the default when visitors access your site. Here are the steps for both scenarios:
1. If English is to be the default language:
- Set up WPML with English as the default language and Spanish as the secondary language.
- No additional steps are required; you can start translating from English to Spanish.
2. If Spanish is to be the default language:
- Set Spanish as the default language and English as the secondary language in WPML.
- Copy the current English content to the secondary English language to avoid losing it. Use the following documentation to assist you:

Displaying Untranslated Content on Pages in Secondary Languages

- After copying, update the current Spanish content (which is in English) to actual Spanish.
The second option requires more effort, but both are viable depending on your preference for the site's default language.

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Last updated by Mihai Apetrei 1 year, 5 months ago.

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December 11, 2023 at 12:30 pm #15036959
nicolasC-55	Tell us what you are trying to do? I want to install wmpl and Im trying to translate the web, but the web is in spanish, and the content of the website is in english. Is there any documentation that you are following? Is there a similar example that we can see? What is the link to your site?
December 11, 2023 at 7:55 pm #15040479
Mihai Apetrei WPML Supporter since 03/2018 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Europe/Bucharest (GMT+03:00)	Hi there. I am not sure what do you mean when you say "web". From my understanding, you have the content in English already so what is important here is for us to understand what would be the default language that you would like to be on the site. When people enter on the site (hidden link), what language will they see first? Which one will be the default language of the site? After you decide on that, we can continue with the setup. 1. If you want to have the site in English as the default language, when you set WPML up, you select that the default language will be English and that the Spanish language will be the secondary language. For this, you won't need any extra work. You are ready to go and translate from EN to ES if you go this route. 2. If you want to have Spanish set as the default language, then you will need to set Spanish as the default language and English as the secondary language. After you do this, you will need to copy the current English content to the secondary English language. We do this to not lose the English content. So we copy "Spanish" (where the content is actually EN) to English. You can follow this procedure: https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/displaying-untranslated-content-on-pages-in-secondary-languages/#copying-content After you copy the content, you can focus on changing the current Spanish content (that is currently in EN) to actually Spanish. Second option needs more work but I wanted to list both options for you. Let me know if there's anything that I missed out on if that's the case. And good luck with the project! Mihai Apetrei