The Site Language setting in Settings General for my site, will not update.
It is stuck on English (United States).
I have done all the usually debugging procedures, such as disabling all my plugins etc, reinstalling WordPress etc. But the issue remains.
Q: What is the best way to manually fix this, and what is the root cause of the issue likely to be?
A possible source to the problem is the Divi theme, which applies its own translation settings. Try to go to Divi → Theme Options → General → Disable Translations and make sure that they are disabled and then recheck.
Workaround
Another way to fix this problem is by adding this snippet to your functions.php file:
function setLocale($locale) {
return ‘LANGUAGE CODE’;
}
add_filter(‘locale’, ‘setLocale’);
I had the same problem and in my case the reason why it didn't work was that:
I use Divi
in functions.php Divi has function et_divi_maybe_change_frontend_locale and it returns 'en_US' by default.
Just change 'en_US' to your language. Remember to use a child theme if you're modyfying functions.php
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