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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Polylang] Language won't change outside the loop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-wont-change-outside-the-loop/)
 *  [dmadele](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmadele/)
 * (@dmadele)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-wont-change-outside-the-loop/#post-5164025)
 * I believe that I had the same issue. Just resolved it by re-setting Polylang’s
   settings. I changed the default language to another and saved that change then
   things started working again. Changed it back to what it was previously and it
   still all worked so maybe the settings just need to be reset?
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Polylang] Lost translations after moving WP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-translations-after-moving-wp/)
 *  Thread Starter [dmadele](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmadele/)
 * (@dmadele)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-translations-after-moving-wp/#post-5150856)
 * It’s working now.
 * I recreated my menus for the three languages and in Polylang settings I changed
   the default language to another one and saved. I suspect that changing this particular
   option caused the reset of the Polylang settings which apparently wasn’t happening
   before when I had changed other settings in an effort to reset.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Polylang] Lost translations after moving WP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-translations-after-moving-wp/)
 *  Thread Starter [dmadele](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmadele/)
 * (@dmadele)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-translations-after-moving-wp/#post-5150847)
 * I see now that I wasn’t too clear in my explanation. The issue at first was lost
   strings translations. They were still in the database and without knowing where
   exactly they were stored I found them while viewing the db in notepad.
 * From this info I re-entered the strings on the admin interface. Immediately following
   this, however, a new issue appeared with the language switcher. I am only assuming,
   based on the sequence of actions, that this is related to the first issue.
 * I can do one ‘cycle’ through the three language options via flag selector but
   then things get stuck. Either:
    - the content on the page (page or post) changes to the selected language and
      the menus and other page elements (produced by widgets & the theme) do not,
    - or as is the case on the homepage, all elements remain stuck despite selecting
      a new language.
 * Incidentally, after noting this issue I tried to work backwards; ended up doing
   a database restore from a backup made just before the wp move. This restored 
   my old strings translations…
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Polylang] Lost translations after moving WP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-translations-after-moving-wp/)
 *  Thread Starter [dmadele](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmadele/)
 * (@dmadele)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-translations-after-moving-wp/#post-5150805)
 * I did try to resave the settings. That didn’t help.
 * Also, was using phpmyadmin to look at the DB but couldn’t see the actual text(
   maybe I’m doing it wrong >.< ) just the names & slugs etc. like so: pll_5318472f26d18.
   On the other hand, in Notepad I could see all the text so I managed to pull the
   translations out from there and re-enter them on the Strings Translation tab.
 * Fine. Saved that but now something else is happening :-/ Immediately after saving,
   the language switcher appears to have stopped working properly. I can view the
   site in one language and switch to the other two but then it gets “stuck” on 
   one language despite multiple clicking attempts on the language selector. Reproduced
   the issue in another browser also.
 * I checked Polylang settings and unchecked the option to determine language from
   browser settings. That didn’t help.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Polylang] Lost translations after moving WP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-translations-after-moving-wp/)
 *  Thread Starter [dmadele](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmadele/)
 * (@dmadele)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-translations-after-moving-wp/#post-5150778)
 * So I took a look at the database entries (in Notepad. Incidentally, is there 
   a better way to be doing this?) and it appears that something in there is still
   pointing to the old sub-domain folder from where I moved the site (eg.: /my-site.
   com/wordpress/?post_type=polylang_mo&p=23)
 * All the string translations that don’t show up in the Admin interface are here
   so they’re not gone…they just didn’t make the move somehow.
 * What am I missing? How to tell Polylang that the directory has moved?
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Polylang] Lost translations after moving WP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-translations-after-moving-wp/)
 *  Thread Starter [dmadele](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmadele/)
 * (@dmadele)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-translations-after-moving-wp/#post-5150774)
 * Yes, I checked and the corresponding entries are in wp_term_taxonomy and wp_term_relationships.
 * All other elements of the plugin work: language switcher, etc.. The elements 
   that don’t show in my admin interface though are the string translations. All
   I can see are the custom string names but no translations that were previously
   there. Any way to bring those back?

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