Change Woocommerce languange on a multisite install

Question

I have been trying to figure this out but seems that there is no way to do it, and I don't want to use WPML, I have been using it and it's super heavy and buggy. So, the question is ... Is there a hack to change the Woocommerce .mo language file on a multisite install ? In my case, this is a multisite with the same site but cloned on different languages / world locations. I have done it with all the english sites and implemented their href langs, but now it's time to add non-english languages and while you can change the language of the site, Woocommerce won't let you do it. Is there a clean way to do this without using WPML or other dirty and heavy plugins ?

Answer 1

For WooCommerce to support any language other than the default (US English), you have to make sure of the following — it doesn't matter whether you're on a multisite or single-site install:

1. In the general settings screen (Settings -> General in the admin panel), the Site language should be your desired language. In your case, you should select Español. This changes the language WordPress uses to Spanish.

   

2. The localization file (.mo) for WooCommerce should be in the correct folder. For WooCommerce, this is wp-content/langauges/woocommerce. The file name is woocommerce-[locale].mo. You can download the .mo-file for your language on WordPress.org. Click on the percentage in the Stable column for your language and export the language .mo-file on the bottom of the page (.e.g https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/woocommerce/stable/es/default).

   

   The downloaded file should be renamed and placed in the aforementioned folder, yielding wp-content/languages/woocommerce/woocommerce-es_ES.po in your case.