{"id":719,"date":"2023-01-16T08:23:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2023\/01\/16\/6895108-how-to-change-the-language-on-a-prestashop-website-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:01:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:01:59","slug":"6895108-how-to-change-the-language-on-a-prestashop-website-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6895108-how-to-change-the-language-on-a-prestashop-website-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change the Language on a PrestaShop Website at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">You can set up the language of your PrestaShop online store by downloading and applying the corresponding <b>localization pack<\/b>. Go to your Prestashop Administrator Panel, scroll down on the sidebar and click on International &rarr; <b>Localization<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/01\/5f861009-9090-4243-8953-d7b08a03891c.jpg\" alt=\"PrestaShop Localization menu with the expand caret and Localization option highlighted\" data-media-id=\"3089\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Next, <b>select your country<\/b> from the list and <b>check the boxes<\/b> of the information you want your store to use, such as states, taxes, currency, and language. Once it&rsquo;s good to go, click on <b>Import<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/01\/e3ca4360-f3f1-4135-8838-965dbae451e1.jpg\" alt=\"PrestaShop localization pack import with Brazil dropdown and Import button highlighted\" data-media-id=\"3090\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">After a few moments, the pack will be ready. Now you can change the language by scrolling down to the Configuration section and selecting the <b>Default language from the list<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/01\/cef75bac-2b00-46a4-92e1-e67274c5431f.jpg\" alt=\"PrestaShop configuration dropdown with default language set to English (English)\" data-media-id=\"3091\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">To finish, click on <b>Save<\/b> to apply the changes. The language will now be available in your store in the language selector area:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/01\/bfdad7c4-f2c7-45c4-9fea-256301a89fa6.jpg\" data-media-id=\"3092\" alt=\"PrestaShop language dropdown open, highlighting Portugu&ecirc;s BR option\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">If you want to use <b>only the new language<\/b>, you will need to disable all others on the <b>Languages<\/b> tab:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/01\/a9566ff9-f6c1-4eee-b429-1fc5f6b6fb07.jpg\" alt=\"PrestaShop Languages tab with the English enable toggle highlighted\" data-media-id=\"3094\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">After all other languages are disabled, your shop will load only in the preferred language &#128522; <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE<\/b>:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">This configuration will change the language of your <b>online store<\/b> &ndash; if you need to change the Prestashop Administrator Panel language as well, click on the avatar icon &rarr; <b>Your profile<\/b>, select the language and click <b>Save<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing the language on PrestaShop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-development"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6895108-how-to-change-the-language-on-a-prestashop-website-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/6895108-como-cambiar-el-idioma-en-un-sitio-web-creado-en-prestashop\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}