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

Translate placeholder text in search field

Just as any regular string, you can use <?php esc_attr_e( ‘Your Search term here’, ‘your_theme_slug’ ); ?> So your code for the <input> would look like <input type=”search” class=”search-field” placeholder=”<?php esc_attr_e( ‘Your Search term here’, ‘your_theme_slug’ ); ?>” value=”<?php echo esc_attr( $search ); ?>” name=”s”> WPML, as well as WordPress, uses the PHP get_text() function. … Read more

White Space on translated strings lost

The actual code is <?php /* translators: used between list items, there is a space after the comma */ $tags_list = get_the_tag_list( ”, __( ‘, ‘, ‘timo’ ) ); if ( $tags_list ) : ?> <span class=”tags-links”> <?php printf( __( ‘Tagged %1$s’, ‘timo’ ), $tags_list ); ?> </span> <?php endif; // End if $tags_list ?> … Read more

Setting WPLANG from a plugin

In wp-includes/l10n.php you will find the function get_locale(). It offers a filter; you can set the language and ignore the constant: function get_locale() { global $locale; if ( isset( $locale ) ) return apply_filters( ‘locale’, $locale ); // WPLANG is defined in wp-config. if ( defined( ‘WPLANG’ ) ) $locale = WPLANG; // If multisite, … Read more