Change primary locale

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Hello guys!

I am form Hungary / Europe.
I built a site in English before localization was present, so my default website was English.

Now, i subscribed localization and made the Hungarian version next to the English. (I had to translate everything)

But my primary language still English, hovewer, i want to change it to Hungarian.

How can i do this? I cannot switch the promary language in the localization menu.

thanks

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Same here, I have built the site in English and translated it to German and Spanish, however, I want the primary language to be German. and I can’t find a way to switch it to German


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Cool!
I hope somebody can help.

Andrew

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In site settings “german ISO code not working?” Would that fix it?

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Interested in following, thanks!

6

I am looking to do the same! Important feature needed.

7

+1, this is an essential feature for everyone located in a country whose primary language is not English. Please make it happen. Thanks!

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Do we have a solution for this?

10

Anyone solved it? I’m scared of loosing all the work I did

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I found a workaround to set the primary locale to a dummy locale that is never reached or seen, and used for forwarding.

  1. In addition to the locale you want as primary (e.g., ‘de’), create an English locale (‘en’) and set the (dummy) primary locale to another English locale (e.g., ‘en-ch’).
  2. I create a subdirectory for each locale so that when users visit the website without any locale specified in the locale, it is redirected to the dummy primary locale.
  3. To redirect from the dummy primary locale, to the wished primary locale, I add this code in the header:
<script>
  // Small fix to change primary locale
  // The primary locale is 'en-ch', but is unused and will always be redirected to 'de'.
  const DUMMY_PRIMARY_LOCALE = 'en-ch';
  const REAL_PRIMARY_LOCALE = 'de'
  const pathTokens = window.location.pathname.split('/');
  if (pathTokens.length > 1 && pathTokens[1] == DUMMY_PRIMARY_LOCALE) {
    const newPath = window.location.origin + window.location.pathname.replace(DUMMY_PRIMARY_LOCALE, REAL_PRIMARY_LOCALE);
    window.location.replace(newPath);
  }
</script>
<style>
  /* Small fix to change primary locale */
  /* In settings, 'en-ch' is the primary locale, but it is always redirected to 'de'.*/
  .locale_list .locale_item:has(a[hreflang='en-ch']) {
    display: none;
	}
</style>
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Hey!

To change your primary language, you need to switch the Main Locale to Hungarian and then set the next locale to English. However, be aware that all the content you’ve already adjusted will be lost, and you’ll have to manually reapply the translations.

Unfortunately, this is quite unfair considering the price Webflow charges for localization. Hope this helps, though!