Background of the issue:
I am developing a site and have set a custom date format (j F Y) under Settings > General in WordPress. I am using get_the_date('') to display the date for custom post types on a page. The default language of the site is English. To debug, I printed the following code to check if the correct language is loaded on the page, and it seems fine:
Symptoms:
The month name is displayed correctly in English and Dutch but appears in English instead of the correct language for German, Polish, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, and French.
Questions:
How can I ensure the month name is displayed in the correct language?
While you wait for my colleague to take over the ticket, let me try to help you with the issue quickly.
Enable the "Look for strings while pages are rendered" option in WPML > String Translation, visit the page where the string should appear, and then search for the string again in WPML > String Translation. Translate them
Thank you for your suggestion. I have enabled the "Look for strings while pages are rendered" option and visited the relevant pages as instructed. However, I am unsure which strings I should now expect to see under WPML > String Translation.
It’s worth mentioning that the Dutch month names are displayed correctly, even though I haven’t translated them manually via String Translation. This seems to indicate that the translations for Dutch are handled automatically, which I would expect for other languages as well.
I had assumed that WPML would handle the translation of month names automatically, as these are native to WordPress and typically rely on the language settings.
Could you clarify if month names should appear as translatable strings in this section, or if there’s another configuration required to ensure that they display correctly for all languages?
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Thanks!
Bigul
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