Comments on: WordPress theme localization

By: Amir

Amir — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:38:17 +0000

We’ll need the theme files to suggest where and how to fix. The absolute best thing is to get the authors to contact us and we’ll explain this in 2 seconds. This is one of the more common mistakes that theme authors do and is very easy to fix. Can you please move this to our technical forum, so that our support people can tell exactly what to change?

By: Davy

Davy — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:18:00 +0000

Hi Amir,

thanks for the explanation…, i think you are correct, because basically i placed the .mo files almost everywhere i think i it could help… but its still not running. although i’ve sent an email to the theme author to confirm where the .mo files should go however..

by if the theme is loading the file too early.. what could i do? could you point me in the right direction in the technical forums? i only just signed up to wpml today,so very new to all this, thanks again.

By: Amir

Amir — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:45:03 +0000

You only need the theme .mo files. Ask the theme author where to place them. The theme loads these .mo files by itself and not WPML. WPML sets the locale (language code) and the theme loads the .mo files.

If you place the .mo files in their correct location and the translations are still not showing, it means that the theme is loading these files too early – before the WordPress initialization sequence completes. Please use our technical forum to follow up on this.

By: Davy

Davy — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:39:10 +0000

Hi, wpml is working great so far on all my content, great plugin. worth every cent. but the only thing is i cant get my theme itself translated properly.. am hoping to run theme auto translation using wpml instead of using another plugin like wp native dashboard…

i’m on wordpress 3.3.1 running on a themeshift theme.

what i’ve done so far:
i’ve copied both the .po and .mo file into wordpress/wp-content/languages and also into the theme root directory, and to overkill it i put it into the theme/lang folder as well. just for good measure..

but i still get the red “file not found” error at the themes and plugins localisation screen.

and i can’t seem to understand what is and where can i find the textdomain value:??

thanks so much

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:52:16 +0000

Hi,
What values I need to put in the textdomain value.any value or specific.please guide me .I recieved messages file not found infront of all my all translations.

By: Louise

Louise — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:44:02 +0000

I was just having a problem but I found the answer myself while writing the question so I thought I’d share anyway.

I was following the steps above which are quite clear and well written.
Number (1) using echo seemed like a good way to go, and using the hybrid theme as a base for my custom theme there are already examples of how to code this, so I copied the code already in hybrid theme which was:

This string ‘Apologies, but no results were found.’ was already showing up in the WPML plugin management screen so I knew it was working correctly.
I then copied, pasted, and changed it

Then I searched the “string translation” tab in the WPML plugin management screen for ‘this is some test text’ but it didn’t show up, nor did it show up when I tried to export a .po file.

The answer was, I needed to get the plugin to rescan the files to pick up the new string ‘this is some test text’.

The rescan button is not in the “String Translation” tab. You need to go to the “Theme and Plugins Localization” tab and press “scan the theme for strings” after you have written all the _e calls into your custom theme. I hope this helps someone else. It might be kind to put it in the main article for others who might be at a similar low skill level as I.

My thanks to you

By: amir

amir — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:53:04 +0000

WordPress strips out PHP code. Anyway, this is not the right place for technical discussion. You're welcome to post it in our forum.

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:38:54 +0000

why i can’t add a php code? i use code tag, but still it doesn’t appear

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:35:37 +0000

How can I add translation to this:

By: Pi-C

Pi-C — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:06:07 +0000

Darn it… I just see that somehow the string placeholders got swallowed in the previous posting! However, I just found another — more simple — example for the same mistake: