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April 14, 2025 at 7:06 am #16927329
nikolaV-4	Background of the issue: I took over a website that was developed a few years ago. It has WPML installed on it. We purchased a new WPML to be able to update all plugins and have all languages as before. I want to keep the WP Admin panel always in English, but when I edit pages in German, everything is translated to German. Symptoms: Even though I set my desired language in my profile settings, every time I change the language to set up some changes in any language, my entire dashboard is translated. Questions: How to turn off translating the entire WP Admin panel? How to set WPML not to translate the entire WP dashboard?
April 14, 2025 at 12:53 pm #16929575
Bruno Kos WPML Supporter since 12/2018 Languages: English (English ) German (Deutsch ) French (Français ) Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+02:00)	Hi, To better understand what's happening with the WordPress admin language, could you please share your debug information with us? This will help us see how your site and WPML are currently configured. You can follow this guide: https://wpml.org/faq/provide-debug-information-faster-support/ Also, this guide might help resolve your issue directly: https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/language-setup/setting-the-wordpress-administration-language/#how-users-set-their-administration-language Make sure your user profile has English set as the administration language.
April 14, 2025 at 1:40 pm #16929882
nikolaV-4	Thanks, The link https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/language-setup/setting-the-wordpress-administration-language/#how-users-set-their-administration-language helped me. I had to uncheck Set admin language as editing language.