Mixed language in admin backend

I’m running WordPress in French and some words in admin backend are still showing in english ! Like “users” and “dashboard” and many more.

What I did :

– Switched to twenty seventeen theme
– Disabled ALL the plugins
- Deleted cache and cookies

Same problem

I tried and set WordPress in French Belgium (fr_BE) and it worked, all is in french but when I switch to French France (fr_FR), the problem returns.

I should mention that I translated the po files of the theme and some plugins to french (fr_FR) but I’ve renamed every po file I made to disable them just to see if they were the problem but nothing changed.

Thank you for your help

I’m running WordPress in French and some words in admin backend are still showing in english ! Like “users” and “dashboard” and many more.

What I did :

– Switched to twenty seventeen theme
– Disabled ALL the plugins
- Deleted cache and cookies

Same problem

I tried and set WordPress in French Belgium (fr_BE) and it worked, all is in french but when I switch to French France (fr_FR), the problem returns.

I should mention that I translated the po files of the theme and some plugins to french (fr_FR) but I’ve renamed every po file I made to disable them just to see if they were the problem but nothing changed.

Thank you for your help

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Share Improve this question asked Feb 16, 2019 at 18:27 nemovichnemovich 1 2

• The problem is likely due to wordpress itself, try to ask wordpress dev to re-do the french language sites. – Clement Wong Commented Feb 17, 2019 at 4:37
• Actually I'm the one responsible for this Wordpress website, by re-do you mean reupload the default Wordpress installation files ? – nemovich Commented Feb 18, 2019 at 14:44

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Ok I resolved the problem. It turns out I have mistakenly copied the .po files (fr_FR) of my theme into the /language folder and not /language/themes, so Wordpress was picking the .po of my theme and not the one from wordpress. I moved the po file to the themes folder and hit refresh on my website and I got a translation update. applied it and all is good now.