How can I modify month names in "Archives" in my blog? I would like to translate english month names into my mother tongue. I'm using the english version of wordpress 3.1.3
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How do you show the month's name in the "Archives" page? – Anh Tran Jun 5 '11 at 15:33
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May 2011, June 2011 etc. Just like e.g in this blog: blog.sqlauthority.com – jrara Jun 5 '11 at 17:57
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No, I meant which code are you using to show month's name, not how they're shown :D – Anh Tran Jun 6 '11 at 1:15
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if the translation is only for the archive widget, a filter function might work (to be added to functions.php of the theme):
add_filter('get_archives_link', 'translate_archive_month');
function translate_archive_month($list) {
$patterns = array(
'/January/', '/February/', '/March/', '/April/', '/May/', '/June/',
'/July/', '/August/', '/September/', '/October/', '/November/', '/December/'
);
$replacements = array(
'jan', 'feb', 'mar', 'apr', 'may', 'jun',
'jul', 'aug', 'sep', 'oct', 'nov', 'dec'
);
$list = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $list);
return $list;
}
Depends on your theme, but some language strings may be coded in the archives.php file. Check that and also see http://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers
answered Jun 5 '11 at 19:33
I believe the WordPress Multilingual plugin will do this, though I have not used it.
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Yes, but I don't want to change the whole language of my blog, just those month names. – jrara Jun 5 '11 at 17:57
I made a function in 'functions.php':
function mes($month) {
switch ($month) {
case 1:
$m_es = "ene";
break;
case 2:
$m_es = "feb";
break;
case 3:
$m_es = "mar";
break;
case 4:
$m_es = "abr";
break;
case 5:
$m_es = "may";
break;
case 6:
$m_es = "jun";
break;
case 7:
$m_es = "jul";
break;
case 8:
$m_es = "ago";
break;
case 9:
$m_es = "sep";
break;
case 10:
$m_es = "oct";
break;
case 11:
$m_es = "nov";
break;
case 12:
$m_es = "dic";
break;
}
return($m_es); }
Assigning every numeric value of the months to the translation I would like to show.
Then on my 'single.php' I just gave it some format:
<?php echo get_the_date('d') . '.' . mes(get_the_date('n')) . '.' . get_the_date('y'); ?>
It's worked for me.
Saludos!
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1Just for your information: You can save yourself some code/effort and directly return the string for each case, meaning:
case 1: return "ene"; case 2: return "feb"; .... That way you don't need any variable, don't need to instantiate, don't need anybreak;, and thus have less code. – tfrommen Apr 18 '13 at 20:45
