When we are working on some English websites, for the sake of customer access, we set the WordPress system language to English. However, if your English is not good, or you are not accustomed to a fully English settings interface, thenis there a way to set it so that the website frontend displays in English, while the website administrator backend displays a Chinese interface?
The answer is: yes.
This article sharestwo WordPress plugins for displaying different languages on the frontend and backend. Simple Admin Language Change and Admin Language Per User
The usage of these two plugins is the same. After installing and activating the plugin, log in as admin, go to your profile page (Simple Admin Language Change is set in system settings), and you will see an option to set the site language. Set it to Simplified Chinese, and the frontend will display English while the backend displays Chinese.
Simple Admin Language Change is newer, while Admin Language Per User was last updated a year ago, but it works fine.
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In recent years, more and more foreign trade professionals have startedbuilding your own websiteAlthough English proficiency is a basic requirement for foreign trade professionals, most WordPress tutorials online are in Chinese, and translations between Chinese and English sometimes differ. Using these two plugins that allow different languages for frontend and backend can solve the problem of inconsistency between the backend display and tutorials, improving your ability to solve problems and become familiar with WordPress.
At the same time, some foreign trade professionals consider building multilingual websites, wanting to set up both a Chinese and an English website. You can installWordPress multilingual plugin Polylangto achieve display in two or more languages.
You can also build two separate websites, one in English and one in Chinese, and then use the WP backend Chinese display plugin to keep the backend interface consistent for easy configuration and management.
Yes, I am the one who gets a headache looking at the all-English backend.
Achieve an English website without plugins, while displaying Chinese for yourself.
If you find installing plugins troublesome, you can also use the following method to have the site default to English while you see Chinese. The specific method is as follows:
1. Go to Settings > General > Site Language and change the site language to Chinese (if it is already Chinese, change it to English)
2. Click on your profile (top right corner), change Language to Chinese, and save.
3. Go back to Settings and set the site language to English.
This way, you will see the Chinese interface when accessing the site, but users will still see English. The first step of setting Chinese is because if you selected English during installation, Chinese is not installed by default; setting it once will make Chinese available.