Enabling the header language selector in Open edX

[giovannicimolin (Giovanni Cimolin da Silva)]

To set up a multi language site with the language selector in the header, you need to do the following:

1. Set up a DarkLang config with the languages you want released:
   
2. Enable the header language selector through SiteConfiguration:

{"SHOW_HEADER_LANGUAGE_SELECTOR":true}

3. That’s it, you should see it below the page’s header on LMS and Studio (if the language selector section was not removed with theme overrides).
   

This is not the best way of having a multi-language site, since courses content and metadata don’t have intl support, but it’s an option for small instances.

[farhaan (Farhaan Bukhsh)]

Thank you for saving me from the pain of changing language code in lms.yml

[kshitij (Kshitij Sobti)]

If you’re doing so just to check translations, I think a better way is to visit http://localhost:18000/update_lang/ and enter the language code there.

[farhaan (Farhaan Bukhsh)]

I will give it a go thanks