Title: Languages disappear Last modified: August 24, 2016 --- # Languages disappear * Resolved [Osian Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/welshyoz/) * (@welshyoz) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/languages-disappear/) * Hi there * I currently am trying to use the Polylang plugin with a dual language site I am creating for a junior rugby club. Had no issue with this plugin before this. * I add both languages fine. Cymraeg (welsh) and English. Fine * go to a post, and see the flags for both appearing. FINE * Once i save that post, and go to another, the flags have gone, languages have gone from the polylang settings, and I get the message (“Impossible to add the language.”) showing, I’m guessing due to the language already being in the database. * (Please note that the languages disappear for pages as well) * Would be interesting to see if anyone else has had a similar problem with this and if there’s something I can do to fix it. * The site isn’t THAT info heavy yet, so wouldn’t be a big issue to reload whole thing up. Just thought I’d ask in case the problem returns in the future. * Thanks in advance. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/) Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * Plugin Support [Chrystl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrystl/) * (@chrystl) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/languages-disappear/#post-5972454) * > “Impossible to add the language.” * It appear after you have deleted your 2 languages and tried to create them again. * Make the test with your theme + only Polylang, other plugins must be deactivated. Does it work? * Thread Starter [Osian Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/welshyoz/) * (@welshyoz) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/languages-disappear/#post-5972489) * Thanks for your reply. * I’ve deactivated all other plugins and the languages still disappear after editing one post or page. * I don’t go into the settings of the polylang at all to delete anything. They literally just disappear. No flags appear on page menu to show which language the page is in or nothing. Never had this problem before. * Still doesn’t work with just Polylang as a plugin. * Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/) * (@chouby) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/languages-disappear/#post-5972558) * Hi! * If the languages disappear, this probably means that Polylang does not succeed to read the database. Could you try to repair your tables? Important tables are wp_options, wp_terms and wp_term_taxonomy. * Thread Starter [Osian Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/welshyoz/) * (@welshyoz) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/languages-disappear/#post-5972771) * sorry for the late response chouby. been on hols. * will have a look at the tables today and update. * Thread Starter [Osian Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/welshyoz/) * (@welshyoz) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/languages-disappear/#post-5972780) * Hi, I’ve looked in the table and nothing seems to be out of sorts Chouby. * Is there anything specific that I need to look for in those tables? * Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/) * (@chouby) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/languages-disappear/#post-5972781) * Did you repair your tables? There is an option for this in phpmyadmin. * Thread Starter [Osian Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/welshyoz/) * (@welshyoz) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/languages-disappear/#post-5972782) * repaired those 3 tables yes. same problem. * languages still don’t appear in dashoboard Settings/Languages. * thanks in advance for any reply given. * Thread Starter [Osian Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/welshyoz/) * (@welshyoz) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/languages-disappear/#post-5972783) * when i tried repairing the tables i had this message “the storage engine for the table doesn’t support repair”. don’t know if this helps you at all. * Plugin Support [Chrystl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrystl/) * (@chrystl) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/languages-disappear/#post-5972785) * There are several topics about this error message. Some users give a way to fix that: [http://www.shoutmeloud.com/convert-wordpress-database-innodb-myisam.html](http://www.shoutmeloud.com/convert-wordpress-database-innodb-myisam.html) * Before try this kind of fix I suggest you make some research on it and make a DB backup (before do that). * Thread Starter [Osian Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/welshyoz/) * (@welshyoz) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/languages-disappear/#post-5972786) * thanks Chrystl. i will have a look * Thread Starter [Osian Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/welshyoz/) * (@welshyoz) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/languages-disappear/#post-5972807) * Thanks for your help. * ended up just starting over as nothing i tried to do with tables resolved the issue. lucky that i didn’t have that much content on the site at that point. 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