Topic: Translating WordPress Plugins

[darukas]

Hello,
i have translated wp-polls to my native language,and was doing everything what was metioned in this tutuorial.But unfortunetly somthing was wrong becose my wp-polls not show my language.
I have named .mo and .po files corectly,ending is same like my wp language shortcuts.
What posible for me to do that my translation start working...


p.s. sorry for poor english...

[GaMerZ]

Sorry I can't help you with that as I am not good with translation myself.

[darukas]

im asking not to translate but help with wp-polls,that translation was showed in my website. becose i how i metioned,i was doing everything by tutorial.and now have some problems... my translations is not does appear in wp-polls

[GaMerZ]

It works for me that is why I created this tutorial so if it does not work for you I have no idea.

[darukas]

im saying again that i have downloade poedit.with this program edited wp-polls.pot file.Made not full translation (only those word's translated what be showed to visitor's).Then saved that translation to wp-polls-xx_XX.po and wp-polls-xx_XX.mo and ulpoaded to webserver in to WORDPRESS_FOLDER/wp-contents/plugin/wp-polls/ .and nothing hapened,wp-polls are english but not in my native language...

what i must to do,that translation what i made started working??

[GaMerZ]

Try looking at WP-Admin -> Polls -> Poll Templates.

[analoog]

what i must to do,that translation what i made started working??

Try removing capitals from translation files. Instead wp-polls-fr_FR.mo/po, use wp-polls-fr.mo/po.

But I have a problem with widget translation at the front page. For example  the "vote" button? I tried everything, even changing the code in wp-polls.php

[GaMerZ]

WP-Admin -> Polls -> Polls Templates

[daft01]

im finding a hard time traducing those kind of part:


<p>Bonjour <strong>%EMAIL_FRIEND_NAME%</strong>,<br />Your friend, <strong>%EMAIL_YOUR_NAME%</strong>, has recommended this article entitled '<strong>%EMAIL_POST_TITLE%</strong>' to you.</p><p><strong>Here is his/her remark:</strong><br />%EMAIL_YOUR_REMARKS%</p><p><strong>%EMAIL_POST_TITLE%</strong><br />Posted By %EMAIL_POST_AUTHOR% On %EMAIL_POST_DATE% In %EMAIL_POST_CATEGORY%</p>%EMAIL_POST_CONTENT%<p>Article taken from %EMAIL_BLOG_NAME% - <a href=\"%EMAIL_BLOG_URL%\">%EMAIL_BLOG_URL%</a><br />URL to article: <a href=\"%EMAIL_PERMALINK%\">%EMAIL_PERMALINK%</a></p>

is it just the same procedure to follow?there are like 4 like this one i change them all to bonjour instead of hello and nothing changed, this is strange because for alert validation and form names i didnt have any problem.

[GaMerZ]

After you translate, you need to restore the templates back to default in WP-Admin -> Email -> Email Templates

[tataNZ]

...

Step 6 (Step 6a ScreenShot | Step 6b ScreenShot)
Fill in the following details to the settings:

• Project name and version: WP-Polls 2.13
• Team: Fill in your own name
• Team's email address: Fill in your own email address
• Language: French
• Country: FRANCE
• Charset: utf-8
• Source code charset: Leave it blank
• Pural Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;

Click 'Ok'
Save it as wp-polls-fr_FR.po in YOUR_WORDPRESS_FOLDER/wp-contents/plugin/wp-polls/
Click 'Save'

Don't use upper case for the language in the filename. Save your file as wp-polls-fr.po

It worked for me with the wp-postviews plugin.

[GaMerZ]

I think that really depends on the langauge file WP is using. If you are using fr, it must be fr.po if it is fr_FR, then it must be fr_FR.po

[cornwall]

Hey there!

Awesome plugin.
But I have the issue of translatd text not showing... I followed your tutorial, thanks for that. But whrn I uploaded the files, both with or without uppercase, still not showing... English is displayed, when I'd like french...

Here's my website: http://www.dts-phile.com/wordpress

Thanks for any possible solution, I have looked everywhere here, but couldn't find anything to suit my needs.

Cheers from France !

[cornwall]

Hi again !

Finally works ! I went to the template area and reset it to normal "settings". It was just happening in front of my eyes !
Great and thanks a lot !

Question: will I need to go throgh all this all over again when the plugin gets updated? Will it affect the normal behaviour of the plugin?

[GaMerZ]

it is a normal behavior because you activated the plugin first before you added the translation and hence the template has been created are in English.