It all depends a bit if your current theme already supports localization. Does your theme’s function file contain something like this? load_theme_textdomain( ‘twentytwelve’, get_template_directory() . ‘/languages’ ); If not, add it in there. And change twentytwelve to your theme-directory-name. After that create a directory called languages in the root of your theme a drop your … Read more
Translation files must be named {locale}.po (e.g. en_US.po in order to be recognized. Rename your language translation file accordingly. See more in the Codex: i18n for developers.
Technically, this is possible. Just make sure to use your strings after the parent plugin has loaded its language file. In terms of maintainability, this is not optimal. Your create a very strond dependency here: each time the parent plugin changes a string (adding a dot, removing a white space), you have to change your … Read more
Check the wp-config.php file and see if your language is defined : define(‘WPLANG’, ‘your_language’); You could add this if you’re still stuck: add_action(‘after_setup_theme’,’wpse_110727_translate_theme’); function wpse_110727_translate_theme() { load_theme_textdomain( ‘textdomain’, get_template_directory() . ‘/languages’ ); $locale = get_locale(); $locale_file = get_template_directory() . “/languages/$locale.php”; if ( is_readable( $locale_file ) ) require_once( $locale_file ); } Just put the translation files … Read more
If you’re simply using one language on your site: Find the utility.php file in your themes folder with location lib/functions/utility.php Next find the lines 227 and 231 and change the __( ‘Previous Post’, ‘contango’ ) and __( ‘Next Post’, ‘contango’ ) to your desired values. For example: previous_post_link( ‘%link’, __( ‘vorige post’, ‘contango’ ) . … Read more
A translatable WordPress theme is a good way to interact with the audience with the language you desire it to present itself. There are many resources available over the Internet, and most of them worked actually. I don’t know why you find them not working for you. Anyways, I found the following tutorial nicely explained … Read more
You can filter locale for admin pages only: is_admin() && add_filter( ‘locale’, function() { return ‘en_US’; });
Use WordPress i18n functions. Normally good plugins are translation-ready, and you should create your translation files for that plugins (if not already present). Explain how to is too much for this answer, start looking at Codex page linked above, search Google and also have a look here. If a plugin is not translation-ready use another … Read more
Because you are hardcoding the link, you will need to use icl_link_to_element() function and wrap any text you want to translate inside a gettext function: <?php icl_link_to_element( ‘ID_of_your_news_page’, ‘page’, ‘<h4>’ . __(‘News’) . ‘</h4>’ ); ?> This way you will get the correct version of the link based on the current language with the text … Read more
Use get_post_types( [‘public’ => TRUE ], ‘objects’ );. This will return the already translated post type labels and other information. Example for tests: add_action( ‘wp_footer’, function() { $post_types = get_post_types( [ ‘public’ => TRUE, ‘_builtin’ => TRUE ], ‘objects’ // complete information, not just the name ); foreach ( $post_types as $slug => $arguments ) … Read more