How to change the site's primary language

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Select "Base language" on the "Site languages" tab and click "Save languages". This declares the language in which the texts are already written — it doesn't translate anything itself.

  1. Open "General settings" → the "Site languages" tab.
  2. In the "Base language" list, select a language.
  3. Click "Save languages".

The base language is the one in which the site's texts are written: section titles and content, products, tariffs. It opens at addresses without a prefix (/about), translation into other languages is done from it, and SEO texts are written in it.

Changing it doesn't translate anything. Change the base language only if the site's texts are actually written in the selected language. Example: the site was filled in English, but Russian is set as the base — switch to English, and translation will go in the right direction.

The previous base language remains enabled as a regular one — uncheck it if its version is not needed.

If it didn't work

  • You wanted to make a translated version the main one, but it has Russian texts. You can't swap languages: translations into the new base language are saved but not shown. Restore the previous base language.
  • There's no language switcher on the site. The base language doesn't depend on it: languages and addresses with prefixes work even without the informer, it's just that the visitor can't switch the language themselves.
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See also

How to add a second languageCheck the language on the "Site languages" tab in general settings and click "Save languages" — a switcher will appear, and URLs will get a prefix like /en/.How to translate the interface and contentOn the "Site languages" tab, each language has two rows with a "Translate" button: "Interface" translates module labels, "Content" — your texts.Why some text remained in RussianEither the translation run didn't finish, or these are service names that cannot be translated.How to hide or replace a section in one of the languagesThe "Sections and informers by language" card on the "Site languages" tab: for a language, select a section and the action "Hide" or "Show instead".

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