How to change the Language Meta Tag from English to another language

etoconline.com · #1 07-11-2012, 09:25 AM

Dear StudioPress Gurus,

I have a website in French using the News Child Theme and I'm trying to change the Language Meta Tag on my website.

In the default StudioPress/Genesis Theme, it looks like this:

HTML Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US">

But I would like to change it to french. I read online that I should modify it to add something like:

HTML Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="FR">

It also says that I should modify the header.php but when I open the header.php in the Genesis folder it says not to do so under any circumstances. (I couldn't figure out either where to add it)

So my questions are:

1- How can I change

HTML Code:

lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US">

to change it to french?

2- Should I also add the

HTML Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="FR">

meta tag and if so, how?

Thanks a lot in advance for taking the time to read my questions.

Best Regards.

NicktheGeek · #2 07-11-2012, 09:35 AM

you need to update your language in the wp-config.php file. This will also enable correct translation/localization.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Translati..._Localizations

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