There are three usual possibilities: Translation files somewhere in theme’s directory. Translation files in site’s directory, defined by WP_LANG_DIR constant (typically wp-content/languages). Theme’s original strings are in different language, so that is its default state and it needs to be translated to English.
Added to the functions.php the next: $pather = get_stylesheet_directory().’/languages’; load_child_theme_textdomain( ‘Savia-child’, $pather ); And then called it as: __( ‘text to translate’, ‘Savia-child’); In the child theme I have created a dir: /languages and put there po and mo files with the names: [locale].po/.mp like: ru_RU.po and ru_RU.mo. That is.
You can edit .po files in text editor. Structure is very simple (some header, do not touch it) and a number of translations like that: #: 404.php:21 msgid “Sorry! Page Not Found !” msgstr “” You can ignore comments started with #. msgid – string how it appears in php code msgstr – translation (if … Read more
Themes and plugins on wordpress.org don’t need a /language folder anymore. The translation is made via Glotpress on https://translate.wordpress.org/. Glotpress parses the files and you can start to translate. The translated .mo and .po files get automatic updates, if a translation string changes. They are stored in /wp-content/languages If you don’t host your Theme or … Read more
Check that the file style.css is written: Text Domain: my-text-domain Check that is activated in the template files: load_theme_textdomain(‘my-text-domain’);
It basically depends on who is doing the translation and how trusted can he be as if you will not filter things out the translator can add JS code, still cookies and whatever. In most of the places translation is done you will have in any case a call to esc_html or esc_attr which will … Read more
Excerpts from Plugin Handbook The text domain must match the slug of the plugin. If your plugin is a single file called my-plugin.php or it is contained in a folder called my-plugin the domain name should be my-plugin. If your plugin is hosted on wordpress.org it must be the slug of your plugin URL (wordpress.org/plugins/). … Read more
WordPress doesn’t automatically translate anything, you need to use the __ and _e functions, even in your config file, if you want it to be translateable. define( ‘CONSTANT’, __( ‘some string’, ‘textdomain’ ) );
My first thought would be to wrap the string in a trim() statement: <?php _e( trim($text), $domain ) ?> Would this do what you are wanting it to do or did I misunderstand your question? EDIT: On looking further at the docs, while technically you may be able to get away with passing a variable, … Read more
PHP can read the ‘HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE’ header from the browser request, but this might not be easy to parse if there is more than one accepted language set. For the simplest case, when one language is set as accepted, you need to read only first 2 characters from this header: $language = substr($_SERVER[‘HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE’], 0, 2); But, … Read more