{"id":213,"date":"2014-06-30T17:24:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T17:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.wpgeodirectory.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2017-11-24T13:17:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:17:52","slug":"translate-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/translate-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Translate Core"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/a> Translation process<\/a> More information<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>Introduction<\/h3>\n
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  1. All our plugins and themes are in English by default, but all of them come with .po<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0files.<\/li>\n
  2. .po<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0files are the standard way WordPress themes and plugins are translated, or the files can just be used to change the wording used by default for English language sites.<\/li>\n
  3. There are many programs you can use to edit these .po<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>language files but we\u00a0recommend using\u00a0Poedit<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. Translation programs like\u00a0Poedit<\/a>\u00a0create a matching\u00a0.mo<\/strong><\/em> file when a .po<\/strong><\/em> file is translated.<\/li>\n
  5. It is those .mo files that contain the translated language strings<\/strong><\/em> to show the translations on your site.<\/li>\n
  6. You can find some ready made translations in our languages project, find out more here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    <\/a>Translation process<\/h3>\n

    We will translate the core GD plugin here, but the process is the same for all plugins and addons.<\/p>\n

    Translating themes<\/a> also\u00a0follows the same process except for the location where you should upload the .mo<\/strong><\/em> file.<\/p>\n

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    1. Download POedit<\/a>\u00a0and install the program on your local machine (you only need the free version, but the paid version will assist translations with suggestions).<\/li>\n
    2. Using FTP or your host’s control panel, download the plugins default .po<\/strong><\/em> file to your local machine:
      \n\"\"<\/li>\n
    3. Open the Poedit<\/strong><\/em> program and select Create new translation<\/strong><\/em>:
      \n\"\"<\/li>\n
    4. Navigate to the .po<\/strong><\/em> file you downloaded at step 2, and open the file:
      \n\"\"<\/li>\n
    5. Poedit<\/strong><\/em> will ask you to select the new language:
      \n\"\"<\/li>\n
    6. <\/i> Make sure to select exactly the same language you have at WP > Settings > General<\/strong><\/em>:
      \n\"\"<\/li>\n
    7. Now save<\/strong><\/em> the file:\n
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      1. Poedit<\/strong><\/em> will give you the correct extension, in our example that will be nl_BE.po.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n
      2. <\/i> Make sure that the rest of the filename saved is the same as the original .po<\/strong><\/em> file, in our example that will be\u00a0geodirectory-<\/strong>nl_BE.po<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
      3. You will need to upload the newly created files to\u00a0\/wp-content\/languages\/plugins\/ <\/strong><\/em>on your server, so we suggest you save it to a copy of the same folder on your local machine to make<\/li>\n
      4. You will see that Poedit creates 2 files:\u00a0geodirectory-<\/strong>nl_BE.po <\/span><\/strong><\/em>and\u00a0geodirectory-nl_BE.mo<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      5. Now translate any language string you want, and save the file once finished:
        \n\"\"<\/li>\n
      6. <\/i> When you are ready, upload both the .mo<\/strong><\/em> and .po<\/strong><\/em> file to the \/wp-content\/languages\/plugins\/ folder on the server.<\/span>
        \nCreate\u00a0the folder if it does not exist yet:<\/span>
        \n\"\"<\/li>\n
      7. Go to your\u00a0website and refresh to see your changes \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        <\/a>More information<\/h3>\n
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        1. Translation FAQs.<\/a><\/li>\n
        2. You can find some ready made translations in our languages project,\u00a0find out more here<\/a>.<\/li>\n
        3. Translating themes.<\/a><\/li>\n
        4. Translating GD addons.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          How to translate the GD plugin and addons using Poedit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}