Bernhard Kau

Backend Localization is deprecated and will be removed from the plugin directory on September 2, 2023, 14 years after its first release. With WordPress version 4.7, released in December 2016, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/07/user-admin-languages-and-locale-switching-in-4-7/#content" rel="nofollow ugc">the main purpose of this plugin</a> was integrated into core. With WordPress version 5.9, released in February 2022, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/20/introducing-new-language-switcher-on-the-login-screen-in-wp-5-9/#content" rel="nofollow ugc">the only useful missing feature</a> was also integrated into core.
Thanks to everyone who used the plugin, gave constructive feedback, rated it and send me messages on how it helped them with their sites. This was my second WordPress plugin, and it’s surprising still has 2000+ active installations. If you see this message, you are one of them. But now feel free to remove it from your site. You can find my other plugins <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kau-boy/#content-plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">on my WordPress profile page</a>.
This plugin enables you to run your blog in a different language than the backend of your blog. So you can serve your blog using e.g. German as the default language for the users, but keep English as the language for the administration. 
You can choose the language you want to use from all installed language files or you can install additional languages.
A list of all of my plugins can be found on the <a href="http://kau-boys.com/wordpress-plugins" title="WordPress Plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Plugin page</a> on my blog <a href="http://kau-boys.com" rel="nofollow ugc">kau-boys.com</a>.

Backend Localization

Fantastic plugin if you need to deal with websites in various languages, but want to keep the backend in your preferred language. I can highly recommend this plugin.



Works great

Although WordPress 4.7 introduces the user language feature, this plugin is still tremendously helpful in my customer support job when I have to log in on sites running WordPress in an older version than 4.7. 

One feature that the WP 4.7 core user language doesn’t provide is to pick your language upon login—which makes this plugin even more helpful in customer support, since navigating for example an RTL back-end to find the profile page can be quite time-consuming when you're not used to it. (I assume the same is true for LTR for other people.)

All in all, this plugin is a huge win. I wouldn’t want to miss it in my daily job!

Still tremendously helpful

This plugin enables you to run your blog in a different language than the backend of your blog. So you can serve your blog using e.g.

Karolina Vyskocilova

The lightweight plugin extends the default WordPress functionality (user settings in Profile) and pulls out the language selection to the admin bar so you can easily switch between them.
Do you want help with the development? Join the <a href="https://github.com/vyskoczilova/Simple-Admin-Language-Change/" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>!

Simple Admin Language Change


A simple yet very needed plugin in none English sites. Works perfectly and right to the point. Thank you.


Right to the point


I was looking for a plugin like Plugin Toggle but for languages, and this one was exactly what I needed. It works perfectly for testing multilingual sites. Thank you, @vyskoczilova, for creating such a great plugin! 🙌


Perfect tool for testing multilingual sites

Change your dashboard language quickly and easily from the admin bar as often as you need.

Backend Localization vs Simple Admin Language Change