SOLVED: Problem with builder language settings

Hi @Matej,

After updating to 1.11, the wordpress toolbar when you view the site on the frontend has items that appear in the website language and not in user language (english), specifically the ā€œcustomizeā€, ā€œnewā€, ā€œedit pageā€, ā€œedit with bricksā€ and ā€œrender with bricksā€ items. Even the word ā€œbricksā€ is translated which was never the case. Builder language is also set to english.

On the admin dashboard, the toolbar items appear in english as normal. That goes for the ā€œnewā€ menu item as well, that exists in both. No language issues inside the builder.

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same issue here. its getting intenseā€¦

Hi @Stathis & @grafikundso,

Could you please create a new forum report with more details about your setup? Specifically, let us know if youā€™re using any translation plugins, as your issue seems different from this forum thread, which is focused on the builder.

From your description, I tried setting the profile language to something different from the siteā€™s language, and on the frontend, the WordPress admin toolbar behaves the same in version 1.11 as it did in 1.10, and it also matches the behavior of the default WP Twenty Twenty-Four theme on my end. There might be additional details Iā€™m missing, so the extra context would be helpful!

No translation plugins in my installation. Just sent login credentials for an unrelated issue. In my email i referenced this thread for you guys to take a look.

Hi @Stathis,

Thanks for sharing access,

Iā€™m currently checking your primary report, but regarding the admin bar translation: the same behavior occurs with Twenty Twenty-Four theme.

Hey @charaf ,

On an older installation i updated plugins, bricks and wp version one by one. Issue occurred once i updated bricks.

You are right, items like ā€œcustomizeā€ & ā€œnewā€ follow the siteā€™s language on the frontend for some reason, regardless of user language. I guess i never noticed because i rarely switch from English. It was the same way before updating as well.

But the ā€œedit with Bricksā€, ā€œrender with Bricksā€ menu items and their submenu items, i instantly noticed because they are gibberish now, lol. Of course once you switched to Twenty Twenty-Four you stopped seeing those. Other items from plugins like Advanced Themer or WPCode and their submenu items remain in english. I think this is bricks related.

Thank you for the follow-up @Stathis!

To be honest, I donā€™t recall Bricks buttons ever following the user profile language separately from the page language, but itā€™s possible this behavior could be influenced by the combination of plugins youā€™re using.

If anything, the previous behavior you experienced might have actually been a bug, where Bricks buttons didnā€™t match the default WP admin bar items in the pageā€™s language. Typically, the admin bar items, including Bricks options, should follow the language of the page.

I totally get where youā€™re coming from, though! This is the default WordPress behavior, but Iā€™ve always found it a bit frustrating too. You set a user profile language, yet on the frontend, all the admin bar buttons still follow the pageā€™s language instead.

With all plugins deactivated the behavior is the same. Bricks menu items appear in site language soon as you update to the latest version, which never happened (it was always in english). Even the word ā€œbricksā€ gets translated which ends up being funny. Now that iā€™ve played around with it some time, iā€™ve come to the realization that some plugins follow the user language and some the site language when they appear in the wp toolbar in the frontend.

As for the bricks menu items, they changed behavior in one of the last updates. Just went in an old installation, deactivated every plugin and viewed the frontend. Once i updated bricks the bricks menu items language switched.

Itā€™s not too annoying or anything, only reason i mentioned it is because it probably has something to do with a recent update. And for the possibility of a bigger underlying issue. As long as you guys know what the culprit isā€¦

Cheers.

I think this would probably depend on the plugin that adds the admin bar items and the Languages that are available for them out of the box

Maybe your site is in a language that bricks previously didnā€™t have translations for but now has (No idea).

Thereā€™s nothing about added languages support in recent changelogs. I donā€™t even know if my language is included, iā€™ve never tried to switch from english in bricks.

Either way, i donā€™t think they would choose to translate the word ā€˜bricksā€™. Thatā€™s why i noticed in the first place, it seemed like a bug.

Yeah, weird indeed.
But if the admin bar items are translatable strings then they must have been translated by something.

Iā€™m losing track of this thread, but I know youā€™re the person that isnā€™t using any translation plugins, so that rules out any automatic translation by something like WPML.

Maybe something like this might tell you where the translation is coming from: Debug MO Translations ā€“ WordPress plugin | WordPress.org English (UK)

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