I am trying to translate a theme using Poedit, every thing is alright except two strings which give me errors like this: Error: ‘msgstr’ is not a valid PHP format string, unlike ‘msgid’. Reason: The character that terminates the directive number 1 is not a valid conversation specifier. The string itself is this: % comments … Read more
Hi I was translating one of my plugins in “CodeStyling Localization”. when I update my plugin my translation erased. Is there anyway to find it ? And How can I backup my translation (I don’t want to waste my time next time :)) 1 Answer 1 You should move the po- and mo-file with the … Read more
I am migrating a (non-English-language) blog using the Koi theme on WordPress.com to a self-hosted environment, but see that certain strings are no longer being translated. For example, if my wp-config.php file contains define (‘WPLANG’, ‘de_DE’), then _most of the theme is indeed translated to German, but “Leave a Comment” remains in English. After downloading … Read more
I’m prepping my theme for translation. I’ve added the following line to my functions.php, and added the text domain within my theme files. <?php /*** LOAD THEME TEXTDOMAIN ***/ load_theme_textdomain( ‘mytheme’, get_template_directory() . ‘/languages’ ); $locale = get_locale(); $locale_file = get_template_directory() . “/languages/$locale.php”; if ( is_readable( $locale_file ) ) { require_once( $locale_file ); } ?> … Read more
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I want to translate a theme from English to Chinese. I’ve added load_theme_textdomain and successfully translated many of words to the Chinese language, but I don’t know how to translate “theme name”. 1 Answer 1 Use Loco translate plugin it is great and change theme name. https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/
One of my WordPress plugins has ended up with 2 different sets of translations for the same exact language (Spanish)… there’s the one set of .mo/.po files I bundle with the plugin itself, and another set that the WordPress.org community translators created. If your site language is set to Spanish it downloads both… so my … Read more
I want to translate my plugin for non-English languages. But for readme strings, I could find the only option to submit translations over translate.wordpress.org. Is there any way like the one available for plugin strings where you can ship plugin strings with the release without waiting for your translations to get accepted? 1 Answer 1 … Read more
I am new to WordPress, and I have a problem building my website. I use the Sydney theme and Polylang plugin for my multilanguage website. I have build a website in 4 different languages and now I would like to have a different footer text for every language in the sub footer part. For e.g. … Read more
I am trying to translate my plugin strings, but for some reason my plugin does not find the strings via the _e() and __() functions. My plugin directory is called test-plugin. My plugin /test-plugin/test-plugin.php files looks as follows: <?php /* Plugin Name: Test plugin Version: 1.0 Author: Robbert Vermeulen License: GPL2 Text Domain: test-plugin */ … Read more
