GeoDirectory, by default, comes in English. (en_US)
There are 2 options, creating a translation file or using an existing translation file.
Change WordPress language
From your WordPress dashboard, go to Settings > General > Site Language. Change it to your language. WordPress and GeoDirectory will start using the translation files for your language.Â
Translating Add-ons
to translate the add-ons the procedure is identical. Only the location of the translation files changes:
They can be downloaded from our website and not from wordpress.org.
The URL is https://wpgeodirectory.com/translate/projects.
Once you are ready to load your translation file, the path for example for the Location Manager should look like this:
/wp-content/languages/plugins/geodirlocation-en_US.mo
Let’s take another example. For the Advanced search add-on the path should look like this:
/wp-content/languages/plugins/geodiradvancesearch-en_US.mo
Translating themes
The translation file for themes is found in the languages folder of the theme.
When you are ready with the translation file, create the folder /themes/ inside the wp-content/languages folder
Transfer the .mo file via FTP into the newly created folder:
For example, the complete path for the Directory Starter theme should look like this:
/wp-content/languages/themes/directory-starter-en_US.mo
For the Supreme Directory child theme, the complete path should look like this:
/wp-content/languages/themes/supreme-directory-en_US.mo
Updating Translations
sometimes, a new release comes out with new features, and in some cases, these new features require new text strings.
When this happens, you’ll need to merge your translated PO file with the new language file provided with the update.
To do so, you need to have both files on your desktop. For example:
geodirectory-it_IT.po (your translated PO file)
&
geodirectory-en_US.po (the new translation file shipped with the plugin update)
Open the first file (geodirectory-it_IT.po) with POEdit
From the PoEdit menu, click Catalogue and then Update from POT file…
This will not find the PO file, so use the file type option to look for PO files.
Browse to the new PO file (geodirectory-en_US.po) and press the open button.
That will merge the new language strings with your translated file. Make any changes as required, save and upload the new MO file with updated translation in the wp-content/languages/plugins folder.
POEdit
Use POEdit’s built in tools like the ‘Find’ tool to find the string you want to change.
POEdit looks like this
hide a variable with CSS
You can hide a variable in the output of the translation with some CSS like this.
Be sure to pay attention to syntax errors. POEdit will infom you if the string needs to end with a period or is missing a variable. Referring back to the original will usually clarify errors if they sound obscure.
My new string<span style='display: none;'>%s </span>.
The %s is the variable, and the CSS around it hides that variable from the output/display.