Welcome to WPSE Peter, The second argument is a translation domain. This is essentially where the translation for the first argument can be found. By default it checks the WordPress language folder – but if you are creating a custom theme or plug-in, you cannot rely on the translation for that string to be there … Read more
Localizing a string with html markup inside the string can be a very opinionated story as you can see from one of my questions when I started out. I would not say you are right, neither would I say that you are wrong, but I would say that your method is not prefered. If you … Read more
load_theme_textdomain() needs an absolute path to the directory, so you should set your THEME_URL like so define(“THEME_URL”, get_template_directory()); define(“TRANSLATION_URL”, THEME_URL . “/languages”); It wasn’t working for you because get_bloginfo(“template_url”) is an URL and not an absolute path on your server.
Can you please try this code in your theme functions.php and tell us what locale do you get on the screen? die( var_dump( get_locale() ) ); If get_locale() value is not ar_AR then that explains why it won’t load your translation. and you may need to adjust/change the locale file name ( the .mo file … Read more
Used date_i18n instead of current_time. For example: echo date_i18n( ‘Y. F j.’, strtotime( get_the_time( “Y-m-d” ) ) );
Some would say it is hard to answer based on the few information you provided. However, the answer may be general enough to cover many more problems similar to your case. First I would install this plugin. Check the screenshots section for more info: https://wordpress.org/plugins/show-current-template/screenshots/ It will provide you the list of files in use. … Read more
The text domain is a unique identifier, which makes sure WordPress can distinguish between all loaded translations so Using the basename of your plugin/theme is always a good choice because plugin/theme basename is always unique though it is not mandatory to have plugin/theme basename as text domain, you can use any unique identifier. If you’re … Read more
Your theme’s text domain is defined in your Theme Header in style.css. For example: /* * Plugin Name: My Plugin * Author: Otto * Text Domain: my-plugin */ The text domain should match your theme’s ‘slug’ (ie. the name of the folder where your theme is stored). Read more: https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers#Text_Domains
This is a PHP issue, not specific to WordPress. PHP does not allow you to declare a property as an expression. It should be a literal. So you can not call a function inside a property declararion. (see Invalid property declarations in http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.properties.php) The solution is to create a getter method and use it instead. … Read more
_e() echoes the translated string, which will not work in variable assignment. You need to use __(), which returns the translated string.