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Translation / locale affecting whole site

This topic has 8 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 7 years, 11 months ago ago by Rose Tyler

SamiE

Participant

December 5, 2016 at 18:03

I got WordPress in Finnish including Woocommerce but now having problems translating Woopress-theme. After adding $locale=’de_DE’; to the config.php-file the language of WordPress changes to English and cannot be set back to Finnish until the $locale=’de_DE’;-code is removed.

How do i activate the theme translation without it affecting on system language?

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Eva Kemp

Support staff

December 5, 2016 at 18:19

Hello,

As far as I know Finnish translation should have prefix fi_ in the file name, for example fi.po.
Did you translate files in wp-content/themes/languages directory and name them fi.po/fi.mo or de_DE.po/de_DE.mo?
If you mean de_DE.po/de_DE.mo files from our documentation, it was shown only for an example, as you need name files with your local prefix.

Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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SamiE

Participant

December 5, 2016 at 18:37

Yeah sorry that was just pasted from example, mine is named right and with the $locale=’fi_FI’; set in the config-file those translation files works ok but the problem is that the sites whole language changes to English including the WP-system end.. so the question is how to i make the translation to only the theme elements.

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Eva Kemp

Support staff

December 5, 2016 at 18:40

Hello,

Please provide FTP and wp-admin credentials in Private Content, and specify what language should be in WP Dashboard and for the site.

Regards,
Eva Kemp.

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SamiE

Participant

December 5, 2016 at 19:03

Hello,

I would like to keep site and wp-dashboard to be in Finnish (Suomi – Finland) like its now but translate the Woopress-theme elements. I have started the translations and there is fi_FI.po and mo:s in languages folder but those are not complete yet. But for example the “Cart” on top right should become “Ostoskori” when translation-files are working.

Please let me know about the changes you’re making to make it work correctly.

Cheers, Sami

Please, contact administrator
for this information.

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Jack Richardson

Support staff

December 5, 2016 at 20:28

Hello,

I’ve renamed your fi_FI.po and fi_FI.mo files to fi.po and fi.mo in wp-content/themes/woopress/languages directory, as this is correct language prefix https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/
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Clear browser cache and check Cart widget in top now.

Best regards,
Jack Richardson.

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SamiE

Participant

December 5, 2016 at 21:12

Perfect! Thanks a lot, appericiate it. Cant believe it was that simple error.. everywhere talking about naming the files with that style xx_Xx.xx so could not figure the problem myself. Cheers!

edit: its that way even in your faq: “From the file menu, save file with your language name e.g de_DE.po”

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Rose Tyler

Support staff

December 6, 2016 at 08:52

Hello,

You’re welcome!

Regards,
Rose Tyler.

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