I translated a post, manually, to Spanish and Portuguese (BR). [image] Even if I change my website to `pt` or `en`, it still shows the content in its original language. Both on my account and outside it. ?tl=es and ?tl=pt_BR doesn’t seem to work, either. I have everything setup. [image] Edit…

When you edit the post, is the locale it was written in selected? It should look like this [Screenshot_20260711_074544_Firefox] I think if that is blank, showing translations doesn’t work. So if it looks like this - without a language, try to select the language [Screenshot_20260711_074608…

It is working now, thanks for the help!

I recently struggled with this too. I think something needs to be improved, for example, that you need to select the language of the original when you add the first translation. I think currently there is a problem with permissions. You can configure that users can help with translations, but those…

Indeed. I was thinking my instance was broken because of this. I think the translations should override the content even if the main content is not set with a locale, that would be the expected behavior

[image] paulovbettio: I think the translations should override the content even if the main content is not set with a locale We’ve thought of the issue before - the problem with doing this is that if the post is in English but not set, and a user puts an “en” translation, the translation shou…

I’m adding a bit of an improvement here: UX: Allow user to set post and topic title language when manually creating post translations in modal (#41734) main ← manual-407319 merged 02:43AM - 16 Jul …

Manual Localization doesn't seem to be working

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Moin July 11, 2026, 5:48am 2

When you edit the post, is the locale it was written in selected?

It should look like this

I think if that is blank, showing translations doesn’t work. So if it looks like this - without a language, try to select the language

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Manual Localization doesn't seem to be working

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