Just so you know, a Sinhala translation is already in progress. https://si.wordpress.org/ http://wpcentral.io/internationalization/si/ Maybe it would be a good idea to join that team. First, you need to create .po files for the Sinhala translation of WordPress. You’re going to need four of these files. They will be called si_LK.po admin-si_LK.po admin-network-si_LK.po continents-cities-si_LK.po If all … Read more
I found the solution. There was no languages folder in /wp-content directory. I created a the directory and gave it proper permissions. Switching between languages worked after that.
If you want to make any text to be translated you have to use a plugin and mark the text as translatable. To do so you have to use __() or _e() instead of echo. The difference beetwen __() and _e() is that first one doesn’t echo the text while second one does. So if … Read more
You need to grab the WordPress date option on the first parameter of date_i18n function : date_i18n( get_option( ‘date_format’ ), strtotime( ’11/15-1976′ ) ); You can see this example in the function codex page : date_i18n()
Yes, you can use any language you want. But if you want your theme to be translated by everyone, you should pick a language that people are likely to know, like English. If you, for example, care only about former USSR countries, Russian might be as good.
You need to add the hide_current parameter to this function. And when you use plugin function in your code, be sure to check if function exists. If the plugin get disabled, your website will continue to work 🙂 function polylang_flags_shortcode() { ob_start(); if(function_exists(‘pll_the_languages’)) { echo ‘<ul class=”polylang-flags”>’; pll_the_languages(array( ‘show_flags’ => 0, ‘show_names’ => 1, ‘hide_current’ … Read more
I got it! I have simply disabled translations for divi (in general divi template settings) and suddenly my default language is Czech as it supposed to be. Seems like their “automatically adapt with your WordPress language preferences” is quite buggy. Thank you so much for helping me out.
if the cookie “language_known” isn’t set to the value “yes”. RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !language_known=true;? [NC] The condition is checking that the value is not “true” (string), not “yes”? However, the rule is also configured as a 301 (permanent) redirect, so this will be cached persistently by the browser. If the browser has redirected once, when the … Read more
The service links on your front page point to the spanish version of your site. For example Market Research has the link https://datrick.com/investigacion-de-mercado/. If you want it to direct to the english version, change the link accordingly (i.e. https://datrick.com/en/market-research/).
Is it possible to display <!– plugin version 123 (Fr) –> if the language is French? Yes, it is possible and you can use get_bloginfo( ‘language’ ) which returns a language tag like en-US for English (US). So if you just want to retrieve the first 2-or-3 character code (e.g. en for en-US and en-UK) … Read more