{"id":18879749,"date":"2026-04-14T09:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cannot-remove-language\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:17:04","slug":"cannot-remove-language","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cannot-remove-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannot remove language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I cannot remove English (South Africa) from the language list at Settings -&gt; General -&gt; Site Language. the site was installed using the EN-ZA (English South Africa) version of WordPress some years back, but English (United States) has now been selected.<br \/><br \/>All the .MO and .PO files in wp-content\/languages and sub-directories were deleted but that didn&#8217;t remove English (South Africa), so all the JSON and any other files in the tree have been deleted and still English (South Africa) is listed in Settings -&gt; General -&gt; Site Language.<br \/><br \/>How does one remove all traces of a language and use the default language settings? Where else do language options and settings reside for WordPress, themes and plugins?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18879749","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-language"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18879749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18879749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18879752,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18879749\/revisions\/18879752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18879749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}