Setting the forum language

There is no need to set your forum's language. Your forum automatically detects the user's browser language and shows the forum and sends emails in the correct language. For example, the forum will automatically be shown in Spanish for Spanish speaking users and will automatically be shown in English for English speaking users.

Users can also manually change the language of the forum by using the language drop down that appears at the bottom of the forum in any of the new themes. The forum will remember what language they chose.

For cases where the user's language isn't known yet (like an invitation email), the forum owner can set the default language for emails in the Settings -> Notifications section. When a user hasn't visited the forum yet and an email is sent to them (for example, because they are being invited by the admin), then the default language specified in the Settings -> Notification section would be used.

Content that you or users post is not automatically translated. (For example: posts, category titles, etc. are not translated.) For automatically translating content that users have posted, you can recommend to your users that they install the Google Translate browser extension or you can add the Weglot translation service to your forum. If you'd prefer to have this functionality built in to your forum, be sure to let us know so that we can consider it in our future development roadmap.

If you still need help, please contact us.