Will try to relate to this as a question, talking about the merits and such of the solutions. Quite limited, normally it would not change direction, however – you might add some javascript that will dynamically add the dir=”rtl” tags when appropriate You can do that, very high maintenance but might work best, depending on … Read more
I am vaguely aware that it has something to do with the way WordPress is initialized. I know WPLANG can’t be changed on the fly. It’s how PHP works: You can’t change an already defined constant. But there’re filters for that. The following plugin is a sketch that you could use and try to see … Read more
Set language from url?
You should have all your databases utf8_general_ci if you’re website uses other than just Latin characters. Can you have a look at your database tables? If you can then have a look at the wp_posts table and see if they are ???? or actual characters. Otherwise your posts are saved wrong in the DB which … Read more
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
This plugin did the job, for both posts and categories: http://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/
Hijack site url on sub domain for translation
You can not translated dynamic strings with he translation API, you can translate only static strings that you know in advance.
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
What are the downsides to uploading filenames in different languages?