Different language for admin panel in WordPress



While doing work for one of my customers, I’ve come across the following problem:  it is quite complicated to set up  different language for WordPress admin panel without knowledge of coding.

However, I’ve found very easy way to do that.

First of all you have to download the plugin called Admin in English. This plugin lets you have your administration panel in English, even if the rest of your blog is translated into another language. But what if you run German blog and want to have admin panel on Russian? Then you have to do the following:
1) Find the language files for your admin panel here:  WordPress in Your Language.
2) On your site server, create a new folder in your /wp-content OR /wp-includes directory called /languages.
3) Move your language files to that directory. Remember the name of the file (language code. For example, the language code for english is en_US.
4) Unzip “Admin in English” plugin and open admin-in-english.php
5) Find the line called “return ‘en_US’;” and chang en_US to your language code.
6) Save the file and move the whole folder to /wp-content/plugins via FTP.
7) Activate “Admin in English” plugin and enjoy! :)

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10 Responses to “Different language for admin panel in WordPress”
cncrouter Posted on January 10, 2011 at 7:57 am

Thanks for your sharing!

kiki Posted on February 28, 2011 at 8:52 pm

Works great !!! lot of Thanks ! =)

Anthony Posted on February 28, 2011 at 9:19 pm

You are welcome :)

n0ta Posted on April 20, 2011 at 8:32 pm

Nice! Quick & easy solution. Thank you

Anthony Posted on May 14, 2011 at 12:07 pm

My pleasure :)

Shir Gans Posted on July 4, 2011 at 4:32 am

Nice. if someone have problem installing it on WP 3.13 & up, it’s because the plugin nested under two folders. just move the inside folder to the plugins folder and you are ready to activate

Dominik Kohn Posted on January 12, 2012 at 4:25 pm

Thank you, this was the information that I was searching for!

Anthony Posted on March 19, 2012 at 3:12 pm

You are welcome, Diminik!

Paul Posted on March 29, 2012 at 2:32 pm

Very nice….helped me out

Raj Posted on September 28, 2012 at 1:58 pm

Thank man… it will help me a lot… :-)

Cheers,
Raju

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