Languages

Activating or deactivating a language
Importing a language pack
Exporting a language pack

Activating or deactivating a language

To turn an installed language on or off:

1. Go to Back Office >> Tools >> Languages

2. In the Enabled column, click x to activaye or the tick to deactivate a language. When you activate a language, the flag will automatically appear or dissappear in your FrontOffice (Header - Defaulot install). Its as simple as that.

Importing a language pack

To install a new language pack to your Prestashop store, first vist the Prestashop Downloads page and find the language you want. Download the file (.gzip). After you have downloaded a PrestaShop language,  you can easily import it into PrestaShop. First, you must create the new language:

1. Go to Back Office >> Tools >> Languages >> Add new
2. Complete the information and click Save.

Then, you import the language .gzip language pack :

1. Go to Back Office >> Tools >> Translations >> Translation exchange >> Import a language pack
2. Click Browse to locate the .gzip file on your hard drive.
3. Click Import.

Exporting a language pack

Once you’ve completed your translations, please share your hard work with the rest of the PrestaShop Community by exporting your translation files.

To export a language translation:

1. Go to Back Office >> Tools >> Translations >> Export a language
2. In the drop-down list, select the language to be exported.
3. Click Export.
4. Post the resulting .gzip file in the Translations folder on our Forum and/or send it to us via e-mail.

Translations

To export or create a lanugaue translation see "translations"

Tip: if you ever get missing text boxes when entering data into the backoffice forms and pages and you only see a flag, but no text input box, check you have not disabled your language file for the language you are using.