{"id":67242,"date":"2011-12-20T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=67242"},"modified":"2011-12-20T08:51:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T13:51:42","slug":"change-language-wordpress-multisite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/change-language-wordpress-multisite\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Question: Controlling Language Settings in WordPress Multisite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox[67242]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Win-a-WPMU-DEV-membership1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Win-a-WPMU-DEV-membership1-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"How to change the language in WordPress Multisite\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-67477\" \/><\/a><strong>During our <a href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/win-free-wpmu-dev-membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress Q &amp; A session<\/a> last week, we had several people mention difficulties with changing the language in WordPress Multisite.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This one was such question, from a WPMU reader named Tagit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I followed all the instructions in the WordPress codex, to switch my Multisite install from English to Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p>wp-config, downloaded he_IL.mo etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hebrew works fine in the subdomains of my site, but I still can&#8217;t write Hebrew characters on my main site. The characters just render as question marks, like ????<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone suggest a way to fix this?<\/p>\n<p>Also, if there\u2019s a way to switch the dashboard language to Hebrew, that would be a great help too. Since I\u2019m not a developer I don\u2019t know what the problem is or how to solve it.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much!<\/p>\n<p>-Tagit<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Have you ever experienced something similar?<\/strong> If you know anything about language issues in WordPress Multisite, our friend Tagit would love to hear about it. Please leave us a comment below this article and share you thoughts on the matter.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><sub><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstockphoto.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bigstockphoto<\/a>.<\/em><\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several readers have reported problems with changing the language in WordPress Multisite. Can you help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7007,"featured_media":67480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1117],"tags":[64],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-67242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multisite","tag-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217374,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67242\/revisions\/217374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67242"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=67242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}