# Translate link or button/icon not showing

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/translate-link-or-button-icon-not-showing/91795
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** translator
**Created:** [July 7, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translate-link-or-button-icon-not-showing/91795 "2018-07-07T19:58:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![rossi256](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rossi256/32/100574_2.png) [@rossi256](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rossi256)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translate-link-or-button-icon-not-showing/91795/1 "2018-07-07T19:58:54Z")

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In the description for the translator plugin it shows an earth-icon for translation using microsoft service - i am trying to get that/test that butcan’t get an icon or anything else to show up.

referring to my question here: [Can we have have one post with two different language - #11 by tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-have-have-one-post-with-two-different-language/33360/11)

- i should change my locale to another one than the posts locale → do i switch my user locale by setting a different language in USER \> INTERFACE \> LANGUAGE?  
If so, it doesn’t work for me…

It makes me feel a bit worried that there are no posts in this category yet - nobody else using this translator plugin??

Next question:  
Is there a way to override the plugin translations and translate to a certain language manually?  
Those pinned posts and category descriptions, important stuff i would translate to 2 languages but would want to show the user the correct language according to his user-locale, if available…

here [Can we have have one post with two different language - #3 by elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-have-have-one-post-with-two-different-language/33360/3) @elijah suggests to use something like \<p lang=“en”\> and \<p lang=“ar”\> // trying that doesn’t work for me either - but would come close to what i would like to do - if lang=en show that EN text, if lang=ar show AR text (hide the other one) - if other lang → show default locale text

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### Author: ![Faye\_Polson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/faye_polson/32/139125_2.png) [@Faye\_Polson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Faye_Polson)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translate-link-or-button-icon-not-showing/91795/2 "2019-06-11T00:12:34Z")

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Hey I know this is an old topic, but I’ve just installed this plugin and found the translate link/icon doesn’t display, regardless of settings. I’m trying to launch this site in a week, so hoping reviving this supplies an answer.

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### Author: ![anon23840344](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@anon23840344](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon23840344)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translate-link-or-button-icon-not-showing/91795/3 "2020-08-21T00:59:46Z")

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I’m having similar trouble. Since this post is over a year old, I created a new post here: [Translate plugin installed, but no translate button](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translate-plugin-installed-but-no-translate-button/161603)