Title: Force localization?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Force localization?

 *  Resolved [Octopixell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/octopixell/)
 * (@octopixell)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-localization/)
 * Hey guys,
 * I’m wondering, is there a way to force a certain localization to be loaded on
   the front-end of the plugin?
 * The problem i’m having is that the backend needs the WP Dutch localization but
   the front-end of the website is English. At the moment because of the Dutch back-
   end WP-Members is also Dutch. I want it to render English in the front-end though.
 * Any way to do this?
 * Thanks in advance.
    Octopixell
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-members/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-members/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Octopixell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/octopixell/)
 * (@octopixell)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-localization/#post-3458162)
 * Bumping this topic. Anybody know how to get this done?
 *  Plugin Author [Chad Butler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbutlerjr/)
 * (@cbutlerjr)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-localization/#post-3458163)
 * That’s going to be a functional challenge for a number of reasons.
 * In order to run the plugin in a specific language, you need to be running WordPress
   in that same language. So, while you may be able to spoof things for the plugin
   using the method that I’m about to describe, there may be other issues as a result.
 * The only way I could think of to do this would be to create custom localization
   files. So you would need to be running WordPress (an therefore the plugin) in
   Dutch. Then you could edit the appropriate .po in the plugin’s /lang/ folder 
   to ignore all of the strings that would be front-end translations, leaving the
   strings that are for the backend. Generate a new .mo file from that.
 *  Thread Starter [Octopixell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/octopixell/)
 * (@octopixell)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-localization/#post-3458164)
 * I see! I’ll give that a try, thanks for the reply!

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## Tags

 * [force](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/force/)
 * [front-end](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/front-end/)
 * [language](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/language/)
 * [Localization](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/localization/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Octopixell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/octopixell/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-localization/#post-3458164)
 * Status: resolved