# Open edX helping

**URL:** <https://discuss.openedx.org/t/open-edx-helping/2986>\
**Category:** Site Operations Help\
**Tags:** how-to\
**Created:** [August 16, 2020, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/open-edx-helping/2986 "2020-08-16T07:02:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![giovannicimolin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/giovannicimolin/32/159_2.png) [@giovannicimolin](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/giovannicimolin)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/open-edx-helping/2986/3 "2020-09-04T18:50:48Z")

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Hi @hojjat,

What you are looking for is a combination of theming plus translation. The Open edX platform has a built in mechanism that allows you to change the look and feel of your instance called _Comprehensive Theming_.

There’s a lot of useful documentation to get started [here](https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-installing-configuring-and-running/en/latest/configuration/changing_appearance/theming/enable_themes.html). After you’re up and running, you’ll find that there’s a few Open Source themes that you can fork and modify.

We (OpenCraft) build a simple theme that can be deployed along your instance, check it out here: [GitHub - open-craft/edx-simple-theme](https://github.com/open-craft/edx-simple-theme).

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As for translations, there’s already a few languages available in the platform. You can check if your language is translated here: [edx-platform localization | Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/open-edx/edx-platform/)  
To set a language when deploying, you’ll need to add the following ansible overrides to the playbooks:

```auto
# Example Arabic - Language code: ar
EDXAPP_LANGUAGE_CODE: "ar"
EDXAPP_LMS_ENV_EXTRA:
  LANGUAGE_CODE: "ar"
EDXAPP_CMS_ENV_EXTRA:
  LANGUAGE_CODE: "ar"

```

Check out this resource in the wiki:

> **[Internationalization and localization](https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/wiki/Internationalization-and-localization)**
>
> The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world! - openedx/edx-platform

Here are some other posts discussing the same:

> [@How to change Open edX language?](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/how-to-change-open-edx-language/1753):
>
> Hello community, I performed the native installation of Open edX and would like to change the platform language to Portuguese, does anyone know how I should proceed? Thank you!

> [@HOWTO Enable multiple languages on your Open edX platform](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/howto-enable-multiple-languages-on-your-open-edx-platform/560):
>
> I only recently discovered the DarkLang middleware in edx-platform, which allows you to enable multiple languages on Open edX, so I wrote a blurb about it: [https://discuss.overhang.io/t/howto-enable-multiple-languages-for-your-open-edx-platform/140](https://discuss.overhang.io/t/howto-enable-multiple-languages-for-your-open-edx-platform/140)

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