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Multiple textdomains

I have a bunch of plugins. Obviously, they all have their own unique textdomains for internationalization (i18n). I also have a bunch of files that I include in all my plugins - I throw them all in a ...
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How to integrate get_post_time with date_i18n function?

I have date format and would like to translate to another language with date_i18n function how can I integrate with get_post_time here is my code : $time = get_post_time('F j, Y', ...
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Text Domains Across Multiple Plugins & Themes

A common situation: a developer builds an entire site, based on WordPress, of course, for a client. This site includes many custom plugins as well as a custom theme -- maybe another theme or a child ...
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Running WP Cron on specific local time

The scenario is to run insert_post function every midnight (00:00) of local time. Must run daily on weekday. function add_daily_task(){ if((date('l', time()) != 'Saturday') || (date('l', time()) ...
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Adding another arg to comments_popup_link

what WordPress core functions do I have to modify to change comments_popup_link('Ni komentarjev', '1 komentar','% komentarjev') to comments_popup_link('Ni komentarjev', '1 komentar', **'2 ...
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Localized WordPress is much slower?

I'm using xdebug and webgrind to profile my WordPress installation because it's a bit slow. As there are some 20 plugins activated, I figured xdebug will be able to find the bottleneck. However, to ...
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I cannot move that sidebar hover to the right [closed]

I've been customizing this theme called WowWay and have tried to mirror it the RTL way, just as my language and custom design would be right-to-left. My problem is with the left sidebar you can see in ...
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How do I override a parent theme's language files with a child theme?

I have a parent theme and a child theme, I would like to override the spanish .mo and .po files in the parent theme (or add them if they are not present in the parent theme) with the es_ES ones in my ...
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Wordpress Localization and Templating

I'm using Smarty Templates for the back-end and Handlebars for the front-end for the plugin that I'm building. It's only now that I discovered that the localization doesn't work when I declare my ...
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How to i18n slugs for templates?

some templates are chosen from WordPress based on slugs (e.g. category-{slug}.php). Problem: How can I use the same template for an i18n'ed slug? Example: I have a category-news.php and an english ...
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How to make a WordPress plugin translation ready?

What is the best way create a plugin that is translation ready? It doesn't have to be translated from the beginning but it has to be easily translatable so fellow developers from different cultures ...
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Loading Canvas & WooCommerce translation file in child theme

I'm trying to localise a site (Canvas child theme). I already have the translated .po and .mo files. I uploaded the WooCommerce translation files to child-theme/woocommerce/i18n/languages/ in the ...
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Does the textdomain have to be the theme's name?

Does a theme's text domain have to be the actual theme name? If you develop WP themes, couldn't you just use the same name (perhaps your business name) for all the theme's you develop, making it ...
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Wordpress translation loading english file

I am trying to translate a wordpress site but whatever I do the english file is always loaded. In functions.php I've set load_theme_textdomain('twentyeleven', get_template_directory() . ...
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Shortcodes, output buffering, and WordPress functions

I have a couple of long forms which I want to output as shortcodes. Shortcode API indicates that If the shortcode produces a lot of HTML then ob_start can be used to capture output and convert ...
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Backend in English and Frontend in Defined Language

I need to translate just dates and days of the week to the custom language in the frontend, but keep the backend admin panel in English. Can I simply remove all unnecessary strings from the default ...
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Customizing existing translation

We'd like to customize some language strings for our Wordpress installation. The goal is not one of translation but of customization; we want to use vocabulary which is already in use within the ...
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Change locale at runtime?

I wonder, is there a way to change the locale at runtime using WordPress ? What I mean, is, I have create a custom URL in order to create an XML file with data for integration with another web ...
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Mapping Subdomains in Wordpress to give the appearance of a localised site, best approach?

I am building a classifieds website and am using Wordpress for the functionality of user accounts, Paypal integration, custom taxonomies and of course super flexible custom post types for the ...
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Redirect user on first visit based on geographical location

My project has two versions of the website - American and International. This is not localization, language is same, only content changes. I have created subdomain for the US version and kept ...
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Should i use _n for pronouns in translation?

I use _x() now! I accepted the answer just because he understood right and was first. So don't get confused! $like_me_on = __('Like me on %s', 'my-plugin'); $like_us_on = __('Like us on %s', ...
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Display Today's date outside the loop?

Is there any way to display the Today's date outside any loop/post using WordPress date/time function instead of using the PHP date() function? I'm using the PHP date() function but it does not ...
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Do I need to include a textdomain if my theme doesn't support translation?

According to the codex Themes are required to use theme-slug (or a reasonable facsimile) as textdomain for translation Does this mean that my theme needs to include a textdomain even if my ...
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How to update the language used by wordpress from a plugin

I'm trying to create a plugin that will be able to translate language used in wordpress. Here's my current code: add_action('plugins_loaded', function(){ load_plugin_textdomain('ecom', false, ...
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Strings including html for localisation

How to localise this string (including html) ? echo "<div class='updated'><p>All options are restored successfully.</p></div>" ; Is this correct? echo '<div ...
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What would be the correct way to manage a multiple locale site with Wordpress [closed]

We are a professional company with lots of big clients and have adopted Wordpress 2 years ago to build professionnal grade websites. Being locate in a multiple language country, we have to make our ...
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WordPress Translation to french, at -> à not working

I have a german / french blog. I installed the german WordPress version, so I already had de_DE.mo and de_DE.po in wp-content/languages. After I realized that the content of a comment's ...
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How to translate a plugin via .po .mo?

I want to translate this plugin. This plugin already has translations to some languages, and it has .pot file for adding new languages (as far as I understood from description). Although I never had ...
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localize inline css

I'm providing a theme setting to define a group of images for the frontpage background. On page load, I want to pick an image at random from this pool. My approach is to add a line of inline CSS ...
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Change language of comments template

I have a Wordpress installation in italian, I need to keep italian for the admin section but the frontend needs to be in english. The theme is custom so that's ok, but in single posts I'm using ...
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Using plural-only translation of register_post_status() in plugin

tl;dr: My plugin wants to translate strings from core or other plugins that use _n_noop(). How? This question related to this plugin and is sort of a follow up to this question. My plugin adds ...
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variables in translatable text

I am adding a list of suggested plugins to my theme using TGM Plugin Activation - https://github.com/thomasgriffin/TGM-Plugin-Activation/ However, when I run theme check, about 40 or so ...
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Action hook load_textdomain $domain variable

I use the load_textdomain action hook to list all active localization text domains with corresponding path to translation files. function mo_location( $domain, $mofile ) { if ( ...
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Can I leave off plugin textdomain for terms used in core?

I've got a plugin that puts post statuses into post type admin menus. I'm in the middle of internationalizing it, and I'm wondering how to handle this situation. The plugin uses some unique strings ...
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How to set up Wordpress in the intranet?

I have been looking for an answer for long time now and have tried on a few alternatives too, but still I am unable to do it. What? : I want to set up Wordpress on the intranet in my workplace most ...
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WPML - How to get posts from category according to language?

My client uses WPML to translate their content posts. I am finalizing the adaptation of their WordPress project, and I am faced with an issue where I can only retrieve posts in the base language, ...
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Plugin for single language localisation

I have found dozens of plugins which helps you to translate a Wordpress website into different languages. However, I cannot find anything that would help me localise Wordpress for different regions, ...
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Two language versions for each article

I have a Wordpress website that needs to be available in two different languages. We have the articles written in both languages already. I've seen a lot of solutions providing automatic ...
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How to create some sort of word mapping?

I would like to know how I could create a file in which I could associate a word in multiple languages. Let's make an example in XML: <item key="goodMorning> <copy lang="en">Good ...
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Localise settings section headline

Assuming i've got a bunch of setting sections. I add these sections to my plugin page in the following way. $sections = array('notifcations', 'updates'); foreach ($sections as $section) { ...
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Where to modify translation files by _e()

I am in a rush right now and can't seem to find the answer i"m looking for. I have a wordpress website that has english and french versions. I see it is using Multi site language switcher to flip ...
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How to i18n text coming from the db or from an external source

I'm writing a plugin and i wanted to i18n correctly text which i'm storing in the db or in an external file. How should i do that?As of now we are generating pot files with wordpress and so all the ...
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How do I translate this string - PHP syntax question

I need some help on how to correctly format this code snippet for translation: <?php next_post_link( '%link', __( '<span class="meta-nav">←</span> Nästa nyhet') ); ?> I've used ...
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What is the purpose of an extra file for translation?

What code is required to put in functions.php in order to make the theme translation ready? The TwentyEleven theme has only following line: load_theme_textdomain( 'twentyeleven', ...
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Cart66 localization hardcode strings [closed]

I've read the documentation http://cart66.com/cart66lite-documentation.pdf and searched on google but i can't seem to find a location(s) to localize strings (hardcode) for Cart66. If someone can ...
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Internationalization and functions that use it

I'm building a new design into WP and so technically it is a theme, however it is only a design for one site and won't be a theme anyone can use and hence I don't want to bother with ...
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How-to Change Content with location change?

I have to develop a site using wordpress having thousands of pages. Pages will have the same content but there will be change in the location of the content. For example location will be Sydney, ...
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How to prepare SimplePie_Item's get_date() for l10n?

I'm trying to improve the localization of the Bones theme. On the admin side it provides an RSS widget which uses the following code: <?php echo $item->get_date('j F Y @ g:i a'); ?> ...
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Localization: Textdomain of Child teme

I am creating a series of WP child themes which are dependent of a parent theme which I will be using as a framework. I need to have these themes (both parent and children) localized. from ...
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Proper way to create / manage gettext (.po, .pot) files?

So I'm trying to figure out how .po and .pot files work, seeing as this is what Wordpress seems to use. But I can't wrap my head around it. I get that a .pot file is a template file that indicates ...

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