Thanks @toscho — The problem plugin in particular is wp-pagenavi. The backend strings are being translated, however; the frontend remains in default en_US locale. I found this: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-91 To be more specific, the text field values on plugin options page do not get translated so my assumption is that translations are malformed somewhere in the … Read more
Nevermind, I figured out the solution: the trouble was that POEdit hadn’t picked that there were both singular and plural forms, so I had to manually edit the .PE file to this: msgid “Job Posted” msgid_plural “Jobs Posted” msgstr[0] “” msgstr[1] “”
Ah ha! I found the answer, and it’s a really weird one. It just so happens that the particular strings I was trying to translate were the labels of required form fields, and looked like this: <?php echo ‘<label>’ . __( ‘Email *’, ‘cdashmm’ ) . ‘</label>’ ?> If I move the asterisk outside the … Read more
Custom theme .mo translation file not working
now, you can change the language in the back-end in the general configuration page, at the bottom of the page
you don’t need to edit functions.php (moreover don’t edit this line or it will break the localisation of the theme, because arcade, is the code used to know where to search translations) according to the line you read in functions.php, you have to put fr_CA.mo and fr_CA.po in wp-content/themes/arcade-basic/library/languages
PO/MO files’ content depends on the theme/plugin developer. So you bought a half-ready theme… One way is translate strings in php files, but with this you loose the chance to update that, because updates will overwrite your changes. I suggest you: translate the strings with po/mo, than send the updated files to the developer too, … Read more
Translating WordPress plugins is an experimental project. Not all plugins listed in the repo are available yet. Quoting the translating WordPress page, The project currently contains only a couple of experimental plugins for translation.
sprintf() can be used to break the string up so that the translatable string can be isolated from the HTML: function new_excerpt_more( $more ) { return sprintf( ‘<a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/206823/%1$s”><span class=”readmore”>%2$s</span></a>’, get_permalink( get_the_ID() ), __( ‘Read More’, ‘your-textdomain’ ) ); } add_filter( ‘excerpt_more’, ‘new_excerpt_more’ );
Ok, I just figured it out. Sometimes writing it down gives you a clearer perspective about your own problem. I didn’t know this before, but _x() provides context, and I was providing a context that does not exist. So I just eliminated the whole context thing from the equation by switching the _x()s for regular … Read more