Changing the Language of Website in WordPress
In order to use WordPress in your target language:
- Check out WordPress in Your Language and see whether your language is available or not.
- If the completely translated version is available, download and install that, otherwise, go to the WordPress Localization Repository and find your language.
- Download the .mo file.
- upload the file to
/wp-content/languages
or/<strong>wp-includes/languages</strong>.
- Open the
wp-config.php
file in your WordPress install. - Add this code:
define ('WPLANG', 'nl_NL')
. Instead of'nl_NL'
you can choose your language code. (Find below) - After updating the
wp-config.php
file, the WordPress backend will be displayed in your chosen language.