Translate wordpress date from Italian to English

Question

I'm developing a wordpress based site in English but I've installed the Italian version of it...
In my blog page, I get dates, exactly months, in Italian instead of English...

How can I translate this? Are there other things I must manually translate?
For example, where should I translate errors?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I do this with the One Backend Language plugin. This way, the WPLANG language is only used in the frontend, and another used in the admin area.

There are more plugins that do this, some allow you to choose a language per user. The downside is that you can still be logged in when you visit the frontend, and thus get the language of the admin area there too.

Answer 2

The developers of Wordpress chose to use GNU gettext method to handle localization.

This is all documented and bit you'll need specifically can be found here http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress#Date_and_Time_Locale_Settings

Answer 3

When date is retrieved from database WordPress passes it through date_i18n() function that draws your locale settings and translates date. You can filter its hook to override translated date with PHP default one in English.

Try this:

add_filter('date_i18n', 'eng_date', 10, 3);

function eng_date($j, $req_format, $i) {

    return date($req_format, $i);
}

As for more global solution I know there are plugins to handle separate languages for front-end and back-end. Hadn't used any myself so can't recommend one, search official plugins repository.

Answer 4

You might find the WordPress Multilingual plugin helpful here.

It probably does a lot more than you need, but it has superb functionality for automatically displaying the system-generated messages in the right language for a specific post/page.