Title: default language
Last modified: July 26, 2020

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# default language

 *  Resolved [wkmultimedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wkmultimedia/)
 * (@wkmultimedia)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-language-30/)
 * hi, first of all, i like the way the plugin work. it is easy to use and get quick
   translations. never the less, i have a problem with the default language. We 
   chooesed default language english, because we wanted to get to an international
   community with the page which is actually in building at the moment. People should
   fill in a directory at the page. I can translate the entries very quick. but 
   most of our users will be german, the second language we have. So they fill in
   german text to the entries.
    if i will translate them, they will apear as a greyedout
   field in english and i just can translate them to german which is silly for german
   text. So do i have to change the default language to german and loose every translation
   to this point? There must be an smarter way to that. i changed default language
   from wordpress and the users which do the entries to german, but it does not 
   work, the text will stay as the english text in the translatepress translation
   page. How can i change this without losing all the entries i translated so far?
 * short: if a german user with a german backend fill in a german text, it will 
   be saved as the original english and can only be translatet in german. Is it 
   possible to make the translation bidirectional? if i hvae a german text i willtranslate
   an ebglish text and if i have an english text i will fil in a german translation?
   
   Thanks for your help.
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by [wkmultimedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wkmultimedia/).
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 *  Thread Starter [wkmultimedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wkmultimedia/)
 * (@wkmultimedia)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-language-30/#post-13194686)
 * Hi, i have to know if i can change default language if i buy a personal or a 
   business licence or if i have tofind another translation plugin.
    it is difficult
   like it is at this time for me, could you please help me? Thanks Wolfgang
 *  [Denis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdenis/)
 * (@sdenis)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-language-30/#post-13211554)
 * Hello,
 * We deeply apologize for the delayed response.
    There has been a great load on
   our support team in the past few days, but such a long reply time is very uncommon.
 * This is not currently possible with our plugin, but I have added your request
   to our development list, so it might be implemented in a future version, but 
   we can’t estimate when that may be.
 * However, if you want, I can put you on the list and we will let you know when
   we launch this feature.
 * Kind regards,

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