I have a site which serves Ireland & England. I want to move it to WordPress. Currently all the content is the same when you visit the site & it runs off two urls, the Irish one: mysite.ie & the english mysite.co.uk I need to show different prices based on whether the user is visiting … Read more
I’m trying to improve the localization of the Bones theme. On the admin side it provides an RSS widget which uses the following code: <?php echo $item->get_date(‘j F Y @ g:i a’); ?> This uses SimplePie, here’s the doc for the method. Which would be the best way to make this translatable? 2 Answers 2 … Read more
i’ve just built my first plugin for wp, and even if it’s not a great “code poetry” 😉 it works as it should. It’s a plugin that transform the default wp gallery using the GalleryView 3.0 jquery plugin (http://spaceforaname.com/galleryview). The only thing i’m not able to do is localization. Localization for this plugin in means … Read more
I’m trying to localize the singular name of a custom post type. … ‘singular_name’ => __(‘key’, ‘plugindomain’) … I created a .po and compiled it as .mo. I also loaded the translation using load_plugin_textdomain using the init action. // $directory plugin directory relative to plugins dir load_plugin_textdomain(‘plugindomain’, false, $directory); The string are localized correctly in … Read more
In WordPress localization files (.po), does php map files by the line number eg. comments.php:60 or msgid msgid “<span class=\”meta-nav\”>←</span> Older Comments”. So basically, if I have said string in comments.php in line 60, and move it to line 74, does it still get localized by the msgid? 1 Answer 1 if I have said … Read more
Plugin queries remote API and under certain circumstances (mostly errors) displays textual messages from API responses. All messages in API responses are in English, but since they are more or less integrated in plugin it would make sense to make them localized and display-able in different language to match plugin’s interface. Theoretical question – should … Read more
I’ve got a few gettext() questions that are not covered anywhere in WordPress Codex but I think they are important. __(‘string’) in THEME should be used for strings that are likely to be present also in main WordPress translation file. No textdomain necessary. Examples: one, two, submit, cancel, remove and other common words. Correct? __(‘string’, … Read more
I want to translate the generic phrase “x hours and y mintues”. Of course, if it’s only one hour, it should say “1 hour and y mintutes”. The same goes for minutes, “x hours and 1 minute.” I know _n() handles the single/plural issue, but what is the best practice on handling two numbers in … Read more
I am using the WordPress multisite feature with Multilingual Press Pro to create a multilingual site with linked posts. In a network activated plugin the custom post types are registered. For translating the slug I use l10n: ‘rewrite’ => array( ‘slug’ => __( ‘products’, ‘text-domain’ ) . ‘/%product-category%’, ‘with_front’ => false ) This works fine. … Read more
Basic l10n from a .mo file generated out of PoEdit works fine. But as soon as I introduce _x, or variants, the link breaks, because as best as I can tell, PoEdit, completely ignores the context, and does not generate the corresponding msgctxt line in the .po/.mo files. _x, _ex and other variants are all … Read more
