When naming your po and mo files in a theme, you need to only make use of the language code to name these files. Any other convention will not work For example, my blog is in Afrikaans and the localization language code is af_AF. My mo and po files are named accordingly, ie, af_AF.po and … Read more
If you’re comfortable with the use of WordPress and plugins you should take a look at WPML plugin at http://wpml.org/ It’s working quite well, even for non-programming users.
Looks like you may not be able to just add a pair to your .po file, without first adding it to the wordpress.pot file: http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress#gettext_files. You’ll also need to compile your .po file into a .mo (Machine Object) file in order for your changes to take effect. I’m not certain that will work, but it … Read more
The Pro: You can reuse native WP code. Contra: You have to write your own taxonomy selector to avoid posts tagged with more than one language. The plugin Posts 2 Posts from @scribu should guide you to a more flexible approach.
@toscho is right about the direction of the text… But as someone who builds websites in hebrew all the time i would reccomend you create a custom page template by putting this tag in a copy of page.php /* Template name: arabic page */ THen you can design it differently… maybe remove the sidebar which … Read more
I don’t know the function you mention either, but I would venture to guess that that applies to default roles only anyhow. Still, the link you posted does contain a pointer in the right direction. It speaks of “dummy gettext calls”, which is exactly what you have to do. In the following we will adjust … Read more
WPLANG effects the whole site not just the admin section, you can use it in conjunction with WPML. It basically sets what language you have translations for but you must include a languages folder inside wp-include with the appropriate .mo and .po files. You can also set WPML to use the default languages directory ( … Read more
The main language of a post should be saved in a post meta field. There is no way to detect that automatically. Even Google’s heuristics fail regularly with that. So add a custom field lang and check with … $language = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), ‘lang’, TRUE ); … what language the post was written in. Update … Read more
I have no experience with the plugin whatsoever, but from a quick scout of their site, it looks like: ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE will give you the current language. Worth a try, anyway!
You can Use qTranslate, this WordPress plugin let you have an easy to use interface for managing a fully multilingual web site. One-Click-Switching between the languages – Change the language as easy as switching Choose one of 3 Modes to make your URLs pretty and SEO-friendly. – The everywhere compatible ?lang=en, simple and beautiful /en/foo/ … Read more