{"id":2765,"date":"2026-10-20T08:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/geodirectory-french-translation\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:39:19","slug":"geodirectory-french-translation","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/translations\/geodirectory-french-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to get the French translation for GeoDirectory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GeoDirectory&#8217;s French translation, like all its languages, comes from translate.wordpress.org. Set your site language to French at Settings &gt; General &gt; Site Language and WordPress downloads the GeoDirectory language pack for you. Later updates to it show under Dashboard &gt; Updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can see how much of GeoDirectory is translated into French, and suggest translations for missing strings, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.wordpress.org\/projects\/wp-plugins\/geodirectory\/\">GeoDirectory translation project<\/a>. Suggestions only reach sites after a French translation editor approves them, and WordPress only builds a language pack once enough of the plugin is translated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Translate missing strings yourself<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To fill the gaps on your own site now, make your own translation file with the Loco Translate plugin or Poedit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Use the geodirectory-en_US.po file from the plugin&#8217;s languages folder as your template, or let Loco Translate read the strings from the plugin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Save the translation as geodirectory-fr_FR.po and compile it to geodirectory-fr_FR.mo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Upload both to wp-content\/languages\/geodirectory\/ (create the folder if it doesn&#8217;t exist).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GeoDirectory loads files from that folder before the language pack, so your translations take priority, and plugin updates don&#8217;t touch them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To change only a few words, see <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/translations\/how-to-change-just-one-language-string\/\">How to change just one language string<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Add-ons<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each add-on has its own translation file and text domain, for example geodirlocation for Location Manager. You can translate them the same way with Loco Translate. Our old add-on translation site is closing; <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/translate\/\">wpgeodirectory.com\/translate\/<\/a> has the latest on where add-on translations are going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More detail: <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/how-tos\/how-to-translate-or-localize-geodirectory\/\">How to translate or localize GeoDirectory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GeoDirectory&#8217;s French translation, like all its languages, comes from translate.wordpress.org. Set your site language to French at Settings &gt; General &gt; Site Language and WordPress downloads the GeoDirectory language pack for you. Later updates to it show under Dashboard &gt; Updates. 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