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Running WordPress in Arabic (RTL)

Arabic dashboard, right-to-left layout and bilingual sites.

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Arabic site and dashboard

Go to Settings → General → Site Language, choose العربية and save. WordPress switches to right-to-left automatically, as long as your theme supports RTL. Most modern themes do; check the theme's description before choosing.

Each user's own language

Each user can pick their dashboard language under Users → Profile → Language, so you can run an Arabic site with an English dashboard, or the reverse.

Arabic and English on one site

Use a multilingual plugin such as Polylang or WPML. Each page gets a translation, and visitors switch languages with a menu.

Choose Arabic web fonts that are designed for screens, such as those on Google Fonts, for readable text.