Comments on: Localizing WordPress Themes and Plugins

By: Halibutt

Halibutt — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:11:47 +0000

Bah! I sorted it out finally. For some strange reason PoEdit couldn't handle my language settings properly and when I __ngettex the %, it returned errors and added some strange referral to #, php-format file, even though there's no such file in the theme I'm translating (and returned an error when saving).

However, I finally decided to do it the hard way, opened the .po file in Notepad ++, then added the following "by hand"

#: home.php:42
#: single.php:44
msgid "% comment"
msgid_plural "%d comments"
msgstr[0] "0 komentarz"
msgstr[1] "% komentarze"
msgstr[2] "% komentarzy"

Then I reloaded the file in PoEdit (but without reloading the files from the folder) and saved - without any problems this time. Just don't trust PoEdit and you'll be fine

By: Halibutt

Halibutt — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:52:46 +0000

Message sent (using contact form).
Cheers

By: John

John — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:17:55 +0000

Can you send the code you are trying to enter to me? I'll look into why it's not working here.

By: Halibutt

Halibutt — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:37:10 +0000

BTW, the xhtml code function doesn't seem to work on your site, contrary to what a tooltip above the comment area says.

By: Halibutt

Halibutt — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:36:03 +0000

A great tutorial indeed, thank you so much!. I'm using it for internationalization of the excellent TMA theme (The Morning After). Sadly, the tutorial doesn't seem to explain the ngettext thingie right. In TMA a similar function (comments_popup_link) is often called, but when I change the relevant passage the way you suggest, it gets messed up. Precisely, I change

into

When there is one comment or two - all gets translated just fine. But poedit doesn't see the other possibilities (3 comments, 4 comments, and so on) and where there are three comments or more - no text is visible at all. Any ideas?

By: John

John — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:14:36 +0000

Where did you get your gettext from? Are you giving the right command-line parameters to tell it to accept PHP?

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:20:16 +0000

John,

Thanks for the article--it got me started nicely on internationalising my plugins--but I very quickly hit a brick wall. I can't get xgettext to work on my Windows development machine. It doesn't seem to recognise PHP files at all. Someone told me the win versions were rather out of date. Do you know of any ways round this road-block? Thanks for your help.
Rob

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By: Mohamed

Mohamed — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:40:29 +0000

Thank you so much for sharing this. I would be grateful if you can cover also the bi-di languages (Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, Hebrew, etc) and how to flip and reverse the whole layout to be right to left. That would be great and I think it will add a lot to your efforts to reach broader audience.

Thanks again
Mohamed