Title: change language
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# change language

 *  Resolved [andrethitcho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrethitcho/)
 * (@andrethitcho)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-3/)
 * I’d like to change WordPress language from a Brazilian Portuguese install to 
   the standard English. i know I have to change it in the config.php, but apparently
   in the wp content – language dir there’s only the brazilian portuguese language.
   Do I have to upload the english language and edit the config.php file afterwards?
   
   thanx

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-3/#post-1066901)
 * simply delete the .mo file in /languages
 * in wp-config.php
    just make the language line like `define ('WPLANG', '');`
 *  Thread Starter [andrethitcho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrethitcho/)
 * (@andrethitcho)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-3/#post-1066939)
 * thank you very much!!!
 *  [misterfloppy8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/misterfloppy8/)
 * (@misterfloppy8)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-3/#post-1067329)
 * I have the same problem but the solution to change the language just doesn’t 
   work, first I uploaded the file es_ES.mo and then when I just fill (‘WPLANG’,”);
   with the language I want the file change and all the lines come together.
    It
   changes from this:
 * <?php
    /** * The base configurations of the WordPress. * * This file has the 
   following configurations: MySQL settings, Table
 * Prefix,
    * Secret Keys, WordPress Language, and ABSPATH. You can find more
 * information by
    * visiting {@link [http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php)
 * Editing
    * wp-config.php} Codex page. You can get the MySQL settings from
 * your web host….
 * To this:
 * <?php
    /** * The base configurations of the WordPress. * * This file has the 
   following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix, * Secret Keys, WordPress
   Language, and ABSPATH. You can find more information by * visiting {@link [http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php)
   Editing * wp-config.php} Codex….
 * And when I try to see my web again it just doesn’t work and it says that it has
   fatal a mistake in line 1.
 * This is a nightmare I already tried to change the language 20 times with notepad
   and the web doesn’t work now!!
 * Thank you very much in advance for your help
 *  [Naoko Takano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nao/)
 * (@nao)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-3/#post-1067330)
 * Are you saying you are just changing this:
    `('WPLANG', '')` to this? `('WPLANG','
   es_ES')`
 * If that’s causing a problem for you, you should try using another text editor.
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Text_editor](http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Text_editor)

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 * [language](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/language/)

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 * Last reply from: [Naoko Takano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nao/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-3/#post-1067330)
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