You should always escape output. end of sentence, and end of story. The questions is like asking if you can use globals and goto. Sure they are part of the language and in some edge cases they are the only way to produce working and readable code, but the guide is to never use them … Read more
No, this is not safe. You shouldn’t make any changes to files within a plugin’s directory, all of those changes may be overridden. If you want to change a translation, you can use a plugin such as Loco Translate or use the gettext filter.
You are trying to translate a string with a context but in your po file your string doesn’t declare a context To declare a context in your po file you need to use msgctxt msgctxt “permalink title” msgid “%1$s by %2$s” msgstr “%1$s von %2$s” You can find more documentation on how to format your … Read more
If you don’t provide any textdomain, WordPress translated strings are used. If you use, for example, __( ‘Add New Tag’ );, the translation from WordPress core will be used because ‘Add New Tag’ exists in WordPress. Your problem is that your are defining labels that don’t exist in WordPress core, so they are not included … Read more
I think I fixed the issue with the following extended function in my plugin: function localize_backend( $locale ) { // set langauge if user is in admin area if( defined( ‘WP_ADMIN’ ) || ( isset( $_REQUEST[‘pwd’] ) && isset( $_REQUEST[‘kau-boys_backend_localization_language’] ) ) ){ // ajax call from frontend if ( ‘admin-ajax.php’ == basename( $_SERVER[ ‘SCRIPT_FILENAME’ … Read more
polylang stores translation in a taxinomy but it’s better to access them with the polylang object like that : // test if the plugin polylang is present if (isset($GLOBALS[“polylang”])) { $translations = $GLOBALS[“polylang”]->model->post->get_translations($post->ID); // $translations contains an array with all translations of the post } all translations are interconnected then there is no parent translation. … Read more
Partially translated dashboard in one of network’s site
The % character is a special character in the gettext translation functions. To escape the % character to use it in a string, change it to %%. If you weren’t using the __() translation functions, then a single % character would give you the number of comments. However, when you are using the translation functions, … Read more
You should move the po- and mo-file with the translation of your plugin outside your plugin’s directory. Whenever you update your plugin, your plugin files are replaced causing any file that is not part of the default plugin package to be deleted. (If you are translating your own plugin, you could as well add the … Read more
What theme has translated is Leave a comment but what theme uses in template files is Leave a Comment. Spot the difference. 🙂 You are doing everything right, it’s the issue with translation file due to missed or outdated case sensitivity for that string.