# Help with changing template language depending on post language

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/help-with-changing-template-language-depending-on-post-language/13295>\
**Category:** Themes\
**Created:** [April 6, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/help-with-changing-template-language-depending-on-post-language/13295 "2020-04-06T21:16:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Westmorland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/53a042/32.png) [@Westmorland](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Westmorland)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/help-with-changing-template-language-depending-on-post-language/13295/1 "2020-04-06T21:16:45Z")

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Hello!

I want to have a blog with posts in English and German. I read and followed [this guide](https://ghost.org/tutorials/multi-language-content/) and have a /de/ collection page for German posts now. **It would be nice if when I open a German post, the whole interface could be in German as well.** I tried what’s described in step 2 of the guide above but that didn’t have any effect.

I tried modifying the Attila theme, which has German translation support, but the interface still appears in English. I made a copy of `default.hbs` called `default-de.hbs` and changed the `<html lang="{{@site.lang}}">` to `en` and `de` respectively as suggested in [this post](https://forum.ghost.org/t/using-ghost-with-multiple-languages-best-approach/12081) but I’m not sure how to proceed from there.

I tried changing my `post.hbs` from version A (which didn’t work) to version B:  
 ![Screenshot 2020-04-07 at 00.15.01](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/6/6ae90b810a8ef75d08d8eda5db1855f78cdd3cec.png)  
(had to combine because I can only put 1 image in the post)

Needless to say this also didn’t have any apparent effect on the post language of my example post tagged with #de.

I have some basic knowledge of programming, html and css but none with JS and Handlebars (I found an easy way to install a ghost server on Heroku) so I’m super lost. I know that the {{!\< default}} part fills the whole code into the body of default.hbs but I don’t know if this syntax above makes any sense or how I could make it make sense. Grateful for any help, I think a hair or two of mine might have turned grey trying to set up a nice multilingual blog 😥