How to disable Elementor's editor translation #24499
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What problem is your feature request going to solve? Please describe.
I am French. Therefore I speak French, also English, I'm quite OK with Spanish, my German is pretty bad.
And I manage a multilingual website, soon to be translated in Chinese.
My role is not to understand what's written, but I'm the Elementor specialist. Which means it's not because a page is in a specific language, that the integrator must speak this language (even if I admit it'd be better).
Elementor's interface is rendered in frontend, so that the profile admin "Set admin language as editing language" is effectless in Elementor.
As soon as I will start integrating the Chinese language, I'll be fine in Gutenberg, and totally lost in Elementor.
How can we disable the automated Elementor Translation?
I know it's based on mo files, but this process seems to be automated, which is a problem, when this translation is not desired.
Describe the solution you'd like
The easiest solution, as a user, is probably to set the frontend Elementor editor's language based on the user's profile "Language" value, when the option "Set admin language as editing language" is ticked.
Describe alternatives you've considered
It's not safe make the wp-content/languages/plugins/ folder not writable.
And it's not smooth being required to remove those file manually as soon as they get retrieved again. Not to mention this requires access to the server, which WordPress admin don't necessarily have.
Additional context
I use WPML to translate the website, where the subject has been widely discussed already, without a proper solution.
But I believe the solution shouldn't be based on the plugin used to translate a WordPress website.
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