How to switch language of frontend interface in Divi Visual Builder

Hi, I've seen so much bad advice kicking around on this whole Divi language issue. There is an easy solution to change the language of the front end. Open up a post or page, in the top menu next to the update button (4th across on the image attached), you will find a button that changes the language. Click on this and you can change the front end language from the menu that drops down. Hope this saves people hours of reading bad advice and frustration.

 

Hi guys, I see the thread is old, but I was struggling today with similar issue and after few hours spent on searching of solution, I combined information from couple of forums and websites and I solved the problem in no time.
So, in short - the issue is in the .mo files which Divi uses to translate the theme into different languages. They load from the moment you want to have main or additional language, different than English. So what I did is just to update the language file of the second language with the texts from the original English file, keeping the name of the second language (in my case Bulgarian, so the name of the file remained bg_BG.mo, but everything in it is in English, including the translations).

I used this article as a tutorial what should be done:
https://divitheme.net/modify-divi-translation/
just keep in mind the quotes in the PHP snippet are not correct and you should rewrite them or you can use this one, which I already fixed:

<?php
function my_lang_function() {
load_child_theme_textdomain( 'Divi', get_stylesheet_directory() . '/lang' );
load_child_theme_textdomain( 'et_builder', get_stylesheet_directory() . '/includes/builder/languages' );
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'my_lang_function' );
?>

I hope this will help to somebody. Cheers!

 

Hi all,
To set the default language used in the Divi frontend, the simplest method is to edit your profile in WordPress and select your preferred language.
Regards
Aji

 

Add this hook to fix this (it sets the Divi language to what the logged-in user set in their profile)

PHP:

function use_user_locale_for_admin_builder($locale) {
    if (is_user_logged_in()) {
        $user = wp_get_current_user();
        if (in_array('administrator', (array) $user->roles)) {
            if (is_admin() || isset($_GET['et_fb'])) {
                $user_locale = get_user_meta($user->ID, 'locale', true);
                if (!empty($user_locale)) {
                    return $user_locale;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return $locale;
}
add_filter('locale', 'use_user_locale_for_admin_builder');