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I mistakenly set my site's default language to Armenian at the beginning. As a result, it now interprets even English words as Armenian and tries to translate them into English. However, I need to reverse this process.
Is there any documentation that you are following?
I've tried to read the documentation and find the similar cases but couldn't find. The suggestion from documentation is to change the default language. I tried to change default language from Armenian to English, but I lost all my pages, after that all pages went me 404 not exist.
Is there a similar example that we can see?
I couldn't find the similar case
Before installing WPML which language was your site created in?
When you say that it interprets English words as Armenian, where is this happening, please share an example with me.
If this is happening in WPML->String Translation you can use the steps from the following documentation to resolve it in bulk by changing the language of entire contexts
Furthermore, if this is a new installation and not much translation work has been done you can RESET WPML from WPML->Support->Troubleshooting->RESET WPML.
NOTE: Please do not RESET WPML if you have translations you would not want to lose, this completely deletes WPML and starts over from the beginning.
Original language was english. Every page, plugin etc. which I want to translate from english to Armenian, it doesn't allow, because the original language is shown as Armenian. Unfortunately I can't reset the plugin because it's too late to do that, I will lose a lot of work which we did before.
Please go to WPML->Languages->change the default language to English.
once done go to Permalinks and re save them.
Let me know if the 404 issue persists, if yes I would like to take a closer look.
I would like to request temporary access (wp-admin and FTP) to your site to test the issue.
(preferably to a test site where the problem has been replicated if possible)
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I often use the Duplicator plugin for this purpose: http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
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If you deactivated WPML (work is not lost so no worries about that), I can see that WP is in English but the menu and homepage remain in the Armenian versions.
I want to verify again that before WPML your site was only built in English correct from what I see at the moment it looks like it was originally built in Armenian and EN is the secondary language.
For example your homepage here: hidden link
This page is created first and then the English version was created as a translation.
Either way you can still change the defautl language to English, however, you will need to re-configure your site.
1. Go to WPML->Languages->Change default language
2. Go to Settings->Reading and make sure that the homepage is set to the English version
3. Got to Appearance-> Menus and set the correct language menu to be the main menu
Thanks Bobby for your suggestions.
I followed the steps that you mentioned.
Now the default language is English, site is working properly, however faced with several issues
1. all page languages are still Armenian by default.
2. I lost the language switch from menu, and unable to add it from wpml/translations (the existing menu is not appearing in the list of menus to add the language switcher)
3. How can set default language for visitors Armenian even if the default site language is English?
1. When I visit your site I can see the homepage is showing in English as expected, please share a screenshot or a specific example so I can better understand if possible
2. If you go to Appearance->Menus you will notice that the default menu is set to 'Main Menu' , Main Menu does not have a translation that exists in English which is why you cannot add a menu language switcher.
Please go to Appearance->Menus-> Menu 1 and add a translation to it.
Click on the + icon to add a translation for the Armenian language.
Once done set it to the default menu for your site.
Then go to WPML->languages->menu language switcher and add the language switcher to the menu.
3. WPML offers the feature of Browser Language Redirection.
This redirects users based on their browser's language. If a user has a browser set to Armenian they will be redirected to the Armenian version, however, do note that it is not IP/ Geolocation based.
