localization

Why is setlocale() returning false on WPEngine?

The issue with setlocale() is not the function itself. It is that WPEngine only has English language locales installed (the complete list is below) and cannot realistically install any other locales. Because I needed to just print some Spanish language dates (not change the entire WordPress installation to Spanish), I wound up creating an array … Read more

Translating form labels shortcode output

If anyone is looking for a solution, here is a way (probably not the better one) to achieve it: add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘filtering_form_labels’); function filtering_form_labels($html) { if ( ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE==’en’ ) {/*ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE used in WPML to know the active language*/ $esp = array(‘Nombre’, ‘Apellidos’, ‘Suscribirse’); /*Array with words to be replaced*/ $eng = array(‘First Name’, ‘Last Name’, ‘Subscribe’); … Read more

Hack nav menu to add gettext() to menu items?

Retrieved menu items pass through wp_get_nav_menu_items filter, as well as few others in wp_get_nav_menu_items() and around. — EDIT – This is what I used: function translate_menu( $items, $menu, $args ) { foreach ( $items as $key => $item ) { $items[$key]->title = _($items[$key]->title); } return $items; }

Enqueue Stylesheets After Theme’s “rtl.css”

Stylesheet Printing Order WordPress does not load themes’ alternative rtl.css files using wp_register_style() or wp_enqueue_style(). As such, the stylesheet does not get added to WordPress’s style queue, and cannot be specified as a dependency when registering or enqueueing additional stylesheets. Instead, this stylesheet’s <link> element is added via the locale_stylesheet() function, which is attached to … Read more

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