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[Resolved] prevent frontend adminbar changing language when switching to secondary language
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Problem: You are experiencing an issue where the frontend adminbar and the Elementor interface change languages when switching to a secondary language on your site's frontend. Solution: To prevent the adminbar from changing languages on the frontend and to keep the Elementor interface in the primary language, follow these steps: 1. Navigate to your profile by going to Users > Profile in your WordPress dashboard. 2. Change the admin language setting to English (United States) instead of 'Site default'. This adjustment ensures that Elementor uses your preferred language rather than switching to the selected frontend language. If you have already set this or if the issue persists after making this change, we recommend opening a new support ticket for further assistance. Additionally, we highly recommend checking related known issues at https://wpml.org/known-issues/, verifying the version of the permanent fix, and confirming that you have installed the latest versions of themes and plugins.
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Background of the issue:
I am trying to prevent the frontend adminbar from changing language when switching to a secondary language on the site's frontend. This issue is not limited to the adminbar; sites with Elementor, for example, have the entire Elementor interface changing into secondary languages.
Symptoms:
When switching language on the site's frontend, texts in the adminbar and Elementor interface change to secondary languages, which is problematic when we cannot read those languages.
Questions:
How can I prevent the adminbar from changing language on the frontend, just like there is on the backend?
Is there a way to keep the Elementor interface in the primary language on the frontend?
The admin panel's language is set on the user level. That means that each user can have its own, independent, display language in the back end.
To achieve what you want, please go to Users > Profile and choose the display language. Make sure to uncheck "Set admin language as editing language". Let me know if that solves it for you.
Thank you for the screenshots. I apologize for not understanding the issue correctly from your first message.
That's the expected behavior from WPML. The admin-bar language will always match the front-end language. Unfortunately, we don't have a workaround or a quick solution to that.
If you wish, I can create a feature request. Please note that we don't have other requests for that same feature, so I cannot provide a dead-line on its implementation, or promise if it will actually be implemented, as feature requests go through a thorough analysis before being considered to be implemented.
I would not call it expected behaviour, but I understand from your answer that nobody ever brought it up as being an issue.
I have tried forcing the frontend adminbar language to the primary language, but that seems something much easier said than done, so let's not waste time on that.
And for me the issue lies not so much in the adminbar language itself, but much more that in Elementor more than 50% of the interface switches to the editing language.
Here hidden link">another screenshot of a staging site running Elementor (default language English, which is also my admin language), secondary language French (among others).
Now this is definitely backend and is therewith unexpected behaviour according to what you initially thought my issue was.
Any ideas on how to force Elementor to adhere to the WPML user preference?
Thank you for sharing the details. I ran some tests on a fresh installation of WordPress, Elementor and WPML, to verify what the expected behavior is. Please note that “expected”, in this context, refers to how WPML is intended to work, and not to the individual expectation of the user.
To force Elementor to use your preferred language, please go to your profile (Users > Profile) and change the admin language to English (United States). I'm recommending that because I noticed that when using “Site default” as admin language, Elementor will use the selected front end language, instead of the display one.
In case you already had this setting, or still have the issue after changing it, please let me know.
Interesting that using English (United States) instead of "Site default" indeed seems to do the trick.
Perhaps an idea to add that to the info page you linked to earlier?
Anyways, thanks for your attention and thinking along.
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