Change main language

Hi there, dear community,

Silly me created a page for Switzerland and, only recently returned back home from extensive travels in English-speaking countries, mistakenly chose ‘English’ as the site’s main language. I saw the hint to ‘duplicate’ the site. However, given that transferring pages between sites is not currently a feature of Wix, I fail to see how that would help.

In a nutshell: I have English (main), German, French as available languages and would like to swap ‘main’ to German without losing the English (or - let alone - having to re-copy-paste everything).

Many thanks in advance,
Sandro

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Use Wix Multilingual.
https://support.wix.com/en/article/switching-to-wixs-new-multilingual-solution
https://support.wix.com/en/article/changing-the-main-language-in-wix-multilingual
https://support.wix.com/en/wix-multilingual/wix-multilingual-basics

@givemeawhisky the Forum Ninja
Thx for your quicksilver-slick reply. I had already taken these articles into consideration.

I was / am trying to find a way which saves me the following nuisance:
" Note:
To change your main language to one that you’ve already added as a secondary language, you’ll need to remove it first. Any content that you’ve translated into this language will be overridden. To avoid losing any text in that language, we suggest you can copy the text or duplicate your site before switching languages."

@sandrotrunz I just came across the same problem as you had, did you manage to solve this without deleting all the translated content you already had?

It’s absurd that I need to delete everything and start a re-translating every page on my site…

Hey guys, if I go with the ‘duplicate’ + copy & paste workaround, how does it effect my SEO?

I’m in Denmark but mistakenly set the main language to English, thinking everyone speaks it anyway. But I’m now starting to realize that even though ppl speak English, they would still use Danish to search for services.

So on the long term I should be better off with Danish as the main language, but will I lose all the traffic I have from GSearch because I practically delete the site?

Help!!

No, as long as you reassign the domain quickly to the new site, it is ok.

Cool, thank you very much!

Just checking in on this a year later. Is there any new resolution to this other than duplication?