Questions tagged [localization]
Localization (commonly abbreviated as l10n) is a term used to describe the effort to make WordPress (and other such projects) available in languages other than English, for people from different locales, who use different dialects and local preferences.
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Custom post type slug localization
I need to have 2 languages in a website (EN and LT).
I have a custom post type 'services'.
I need to have the links like this:
English version of the service: '/en/services/some-service'
Lithuanian (...
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How to retrieve blog language without any region (locale) attached?
How can you retrieve the language of a WordPress website, without the added region suffix attached to it? In other words, just get the language, without the entire locale.
E.g. <html lang="en&...
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Plugin Internationalisation and textdomain
I have developed seven Wordpress plugins for a new project as I was not able to find anything that currently supported these features. Three of them have interest from other users and one of those ...
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Does wp i18n CLI has a prototype of "update-json" file?
I correctly internationalized a javascript file from wp theme folder.
Now I would like to know if Wordpress team plans to propose a CLI to update json without losing existing translation.
It seems ...
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Javascript localization doesn't load. How to Internationalize javascript without plugin?
The internationalisation of my theme is defined in functions.php and the javascript file to be internationalised uses the wp-i18n library.
The translation function __('string',text-domain'); is ...
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Localization PHP: How can I scan the theme to detect the addition of a new string to be internationalized?
In my theme I added "languages" folder (my-theme/languages/)and in my global css file I have well the text domain. I work only with php internationalization (no javascript).
I don't use ...
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Why does WordPress not make use of gettext directly?
When you develop WordPress plugins and internationalize them, the official WP docs instruct you to use gettext, by generating the according .po and .mo files.
When your .mo files are however put to ...
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How do I output translated text strings on edit screens
I want to output a localized text string above the post/page listing table (edit.php). Everything seems to work except that the string will only be in English (original string, not the translated one)....
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How to show the front end in a different language? I am using the twentytwentythree theme
I don't see the language files in the theme folder. Shouldn't they be available by default?
Once I get the language files, where should I copy them and what should be the naming convention?
Will all ...
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i18n: How do I load translations for a language specified in the request?
So I know how __, _e etc. work. They fetch the translations on the basis of the site language selected in the General settings. My challenge is slightly different: I want to provide the ability to ...
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How to get locale within WP REST Request?
When sending requests to the WP REST API / custom WP REST endpoints, which is the way to go to retrieve the current locale; a universal way which always works? I'm confused by the many functions ...
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Save translation file of third party plugin in a custom plugin?
I have a custom plugin that I install on a handful of client sites. All the client sites uses a third party premium plugin, and I have translated that plugin to another language and saved the ...
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React Plugin Settings Page Localization
I'm learning how to make plugins, and Thanks to Sally CJ managed to get translation working on the PHP files, and the Gutenberg Block... (If any need help on this check here )
But, I can't make it ...
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Localising a Block
I'm trying to localise my Gutenberg plugin and block, the PHP side is translated but zero luck on the js side.
I tried the official guide, few other blog posts, the solutions posted in this post enter ...
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Admin Notice is only localized when displaying the "Plugins" Backend Page
My plugin checks if a specific theme is activated. The check is hooked on init.
If the theme is not activated, it displays a warning, hooked on admin_notices.
This works fine.
Now I added localization ...
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.po file is loaded but changes are not appearing
I made a translation file (fr_CA) and it's loading. But any change I make in the file does not appear on website. Clear cache, private window, other browser. It's all the same.
I don't get it... What ...
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Creating a redirect option for current page url
I am running a multisite network with around 8 websites. Currently, some sites have more content than others(for example, mysite.com/uk and mysite.com/dk have more posts). What I am trying to achieve ...
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Using wp_set_script_translations without manually registering the script
When using @wordpress/create-block to scaffhold a plugin for a block, the generated bundle is automatically registered via the block.json metadata :
{
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"name": "my-block",
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Do I have to use load_plugin_textdomain() or is there any default folder for languages?
When I develop a plugin, do I always have to use:
load_plugin_textdomain('whatever', '', 'whatever/languages');
Or is there any setup, so that I put my translations into a specific folder with a ...
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Should I include colon in my msgid in PO file? [closed]
Which of the below is recommended when creating msgid a PO file?
msgid "Available Balance:"
or
msgid "Available Balance"
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What does the underscore translate function do in my code without a textdoman
I am hooking into comment_form_default_fields doing some heavy string replacements.
There are translated strings like __( 'Name' ) in there. I need the text.
I have two or three different ways to ...
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Creating dynamic content and pages for 1000's of locations
How can I generate dynamic pages on a Wordpress website from information provided in a separate MySQL database?
I have a database with Locations and I would like to have a page for each of these ...
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How to render a time-of-day string like '16:42' with a site's chosen time format?
I have a need to display a time-of-day value in a site's chosen time format.
For example I have 16:42:18 and want to display it as 4:42 PM if the time_format option is g:i A, or 16:42:18 if the ...
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Set two terms for a post when they differ only by an accent
I face the following situation: after manually adding (in the backend) the terms with names (not slugs) Mânie and Manie, that differs only in an accent/diacritic (they are totally different words with ...
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WordPress: After Gutenberg plugin migration to block.json the localization/ translations with PolyGlot in JavaScript does not work anymore
I made a plugin with existing localization on WordPress.org for free. I migrated to block.json and made all changes by comparing it to the output of npx @wordpress/create-block todo-list. I read ...
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I want to dynamically create i18n ecosystem in WordPress
In WordPress,
"__(), _e() etc." I want to create an ecosystem that finds locations and automatically generates ".pot" files.
<Just like WPML.>
Some research for this led me ...
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Multilingual website without third-party plugin
I used to use third-party plugins (I tested both free and commercial ones) to do bi-lingual Wordpress websites, but now I want to be less dependent on third-party plugins.
Question:
Have you achieved ...
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Translations for my plugin don't show up
I'm pulling my hair out with this one:
I want to provide translations for my plugin, but they're not showing up. I followed the documentation and took the following steps:
Set up local wordpress ...
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Use localized plugin name and description even when the plugin is disabled
I'm working on plugin development and I'd like to localize my plugin name and description, so that these two pieces of information are shown to other WordPress developers in their native languages (if ...
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How to set the localization for a Gutenberg block?
I'm trying to set localization for a Gutenberg block. After scaffolding a basic block with wp-cli command npx @wordpress/create-block, I need to set localization. I've create my pot file and ...
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Changing wp admin user's language does not update all of the plugin localizations in backend [duplicate]
I have a custom MU plugin mup for which I've coded some custom admin pages. For these and all of their related strings; I've successfully created the according .mo files and placed them all both in:
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Setting Email locale before retrieving gettext translations
I developed several plugins which I localized using the standard approach with __() functions and the .po or rather the .mo files. All of this works like a charm.
What I now want to be able to do is ...
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Translate emails into the language of the user
The following scenario: An admin activates a function or similar for a user (in the WordPress frontend). Now the user should be informed about this by email. Therefore an AJAX call is sent to the ...
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Issue with translation - Gutenberg
Here is my code.
I based it on CapitaineWP formation and template.
I have the .pot, .po, .mo and .json files.
$script_asset_path = PERSO_FOLDER."/build/index.asset.php";
if ( ! file_exists( $...
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Frontend language per user
There is a function of internationalization plugins on WP. If I make .pot files I can translate my plugin to any language. When I install a plugin to website I can choose any language and the plugin ...
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Multisite: How can I have the admin bar (toolbar) use the language of the user instead of the language of the sub-site being viewed?
By default in a network install, when viewing a sub-site, the sub-site language is used for the admin bar (toolbar).
How can I have the admin bar (toolbar) always use the language of the user?
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how to unlocalize theme/plugin?
I have theme with this code in one php file :
'logged_in_as' => '<p class="logged-in-as">'.
sprintf( __( 'Logged in as <a href="%1$s">%2$s</a&...
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jQuery Datepicker displays wrong language until interection with the calendar
In a totally custom page, written as a PHP snippet using Woody Snippets plugin, I need to use a jQuery datepicker to select a date.
I imported the necessary files correctly, and also called and set up ...
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Language string not detecting used within the function
I am using Mpdf lib to generate PDF for the plugin I am developing. The PDF has much more tabular data that require localization.
For that, I have created a function for TH and TD as below.
function ...
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Do I lose translations when I change my Text domain for my plugin on wp.org?
In readme
* Text Domain: advanced-responsive-video-embedder
Do I lose translations when I change my language domain for my plugin on wp.org?
I am annoyed by advanced-responsive-video-embedder ...
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Generate JSON files for language translation from po file without wp-cli i18n make-json
My plugin uses wp_set_script_translations() to load translations for JS as mentioned here https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/11/09/new-javascript-i18n-support-in-wordpress/.
I understand that when ...
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Plugin language always shows WP site language, not profile language
I wrote a plugin that I translated from English to German.
The German translation only shows up, when I change the site's language to german. Once the site language is set to German, it will always ...
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Is hint for translator compulsory while internationalizing a string containing variables?
I am following this official guide to internationalise my plugin. But I am confused if the hints are must required incase of variables inside string?
printf(
/* translators: 1: Name of a city 2: ...
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`wp_set_script_translations` with `wp.i18n` does not return translated strings in simple plugin
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I try to translate strings in JS file. To test it I decided to create a simple test plugin. I have PHP and JS strings there. Translated PHP strings work fine, JS strings don't work.
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Multisite: How to get a list of installed languages
In a network install there is a language setting which will let the super admin user install a language from a list of available languages.
How can I get a list of the installed languages? For example,...
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Transform internationalized plugin into internationalized mu-plugin?
I developed a custom plugin with the following structure in my folders:
wp-content
--- plugins
------ my-plugin
--------- languages
------------ po and mo files
--------- my-plugin.php
I ...
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String translation within WordPress multisite with i18n not working on all sites
Using
WordPress Multisite (subdir)
Child themes
Loco Translate
The Issue
One of our multisite sites isn't string translating (Japanese). We started with non-multisite with just English. Then, ...
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Plugin translation not working apart from name and description
I wrote a plugin that creates a custom post type and I tried to translate it using Poedit, but it's not fully working. I did translate a few other plugins before and I'm not sure what's causing this ...
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How should you internationalize javascript spread in multiple files but build in one?
I have followed the instructions for internationalization on: https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/developers/internationalization/, but it doesn't seem to play well with the development tools ...
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Get localized user roles
I have a settings page that shows the users wordpress role. I am using wp_get_current_user()->roles get that list. However, that list appears in English, and often my users have their locale set to ...
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