This has been here for years, and I've always worked around it, but now I want to learn: What ARE these four lines with "1. NAME (required) 2. Registration Email (required) 3. French and 4. Spanish"?

The French and Spanish entries are probably something I set up, long ago, and have always left them blank.

But I think I've always needed to fill in the first two entries despite not knowing what they even mean.

Thanks as Usual and in Advance (TUA!)

Don

Those are the names of the languages which you either created or installed in ACP > Customization > Languages.

If you do not need them all, you can remove those you do not need.

Jim,

Yes, it would make sense that I'd install French and Spanish, but why are there two for English? And what exactly does filling in these fields here do? (It seems like I always need to fill out the English fields, but I can leave the French and Spanish fields blank - and I've seen these four entries in many, many places in the past, not really understanding them.)

What I'm trying to do right now is make the default for donrockwell.com as it currently is for GUESTS and NEW MEMBERS, but make it less cumbersome for experienced users, i.e., people with more than 10 posts, and I'm finding myself creeping through the process, step-by-step, courtesy of ChatGPT (and also your tutorial). If you go to the home page right now, you can see that it looks very nice, but it's also very long, and I think experienced users would prefer to have a more linear presentation so they didn't have to endlessly scroll.

TUAR (Thanks as Usual and in Advance with all my Respect),
Don

And happy 4th - NO NEED to answer this until next week!

Edited July 4Jul 4 by donrocks

21 hours ago, donrocks said:

, but why are there two for English?

I'm afraid, only you can answer why you have two language packs assigned to an English locale. The software only comes with one language pack assigned to the English locale so at some point in the history of your community, you created a separate one.

21 hours ago, donrocks said:

And what exactly does filling in these fields here do?

You would be assigning the different names that would be used in those different languages. Maybe you name the theme "Red" so it would be "Red" in English but if you had Spanish installed, you may want to name it "Rojo".

1 hour ago, Jim M said:

I'm afraid, only you can answer why you have two language packs assigned to an English locale. The software only comes with one language pack assigned to the English locale so at some point in the history of your community, you created a separate one.

You would be assigning the different names that would be used in those different languages. Maybe you name the theme "Red" so it would be "Red" in English but if you had Spanish installed, you may want to name it "Rojo".

I see (and yes, I know why I would have picked French and Spanish).

But what I don't know is: Why are there two entries for English (the top two)? I've never understood this. I've always seen these fields pop up (in the ACP) in numerous places or so it seems. What is their general function - labeling a portion of the overall system for the end users?

TUAR,
Don

Edited July 5Jul 5 by donrocks

39 minutes ago, donrocks said:

But what I don't know is: Why are there two entries for English (the top two)? I've never understood this. I've always seen these fields pop up (in the ACP) in numerous places or so it seems. What is their general function - labeling a portion of the overall system for the end users?

As mentioned, this is due to you have 2 language packs on the English locale that you added. If you don’t know why you have two, you could likely delete one.

On 7/5/2026 at 1:45 PM, Jim M said:

As mentioned, this is due to you have 2 language packs on the English locale that you added. If you don’t know why you have two, you could likely delete one.

Oh, yes, I see now. I actually misread what you typed above (I was in a hurry, and somehow thought your "two English" response referred to my "Spanish and French" question). My apologies, Jim!

Thanks as always,
Don

Edited July 8Jul 8 by donrocks