Hello There,
If you are going to upload the file in the child theme, it should be in this location:
/wp-content/themes/pro-child/framework/lang/
For best results, please follow my suggestion. The files should be in /public_html/wp-content/languages/themes
Please let us know how it goes.
Hi it didn´t work with the Child theme I need to make it work because I don´t wanna lose my translations on theme updates as you mentioned on you documentation.
Uploading your Translation
Now you’ve got your translation files ready to go (both .po and .mo files). You can upload those to /wp-content/themes/x/framework/lang
Important! Uploading your translation files to the parent theme, will mean they’ll be overwritten on a theme update and lost. We’d highly recommend the following two methods below instead.
Uploading your Translation in a Child Theme
This section presumes you already have a child theme setup and does not cover setting up a child theme, if you don’t have a child theme setup, you can download one from the members area here
Create a “languages” folder in your child theme, for example /wp-content/themes/x-child/languages and upload your translations to that file.
But now we need to tell WordPress to load the translation, open up your child themes functions.php and add the following code
add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘load_child_language’ );
function load_child_language() {
load_child_theme_textdomain( ‘x’, get_stylesheet_directory() . ‘/languages’ );
}
This tells WordPress to find the translation in the child theme languages directory.
Hello There,
I have added a custom function in your child theme’s functions.php file. I used this code:
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'load_child_language' );
function load_child_language() {
load_child_theme_textdomain( '__x__', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/languages' );
}
Please check your site now.
Didn´t work.
I tried to find why the translation is not working and I discovered that in your .po file, the Read More text has a … in the end while that is not present in x.pot. I tried generating a .mo again but it’s still not working. I can’t go deeper as you have third party plugins and caching setup and I could not disable that as well as other settings you have in your site. Would you mind trying a clean install in a staging server. For now, I’ve added this alternative way/code in your functions.php to change the Read More and Search texts.
// Alternate Text
function alternate_text( $translated_text, $text, $domain ) {
switch ( $translated_text ) {
case 'Read More' :
$translated_text = __( 'Leer más', '__x__' );
break;
case 'Search' :
$translated_text = __( 'Buscar', '__x__' );
break;
}
return $translated_text;
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'alternate_text', 20, 3 );
Thanks.
Hello that is a complicated solution and a temporary I can disable the caching plugin there is no problem with that I need the way with the child theme not a workaround, please help me.
The given staging credentials doesn’t work. Please check. Thanks.
Hi there,
Would you mind providing a video recording on how you’re connecting? I tried all possible setup, plain FTP, SFTP (22 and 2222, and other ports), FTP over TLS, and so on. But I’m unable to get in with this error
Response: 530 Login authentication failed
Maybe there is a firewall? Maybe we’re connecting to a different staging host? I tried http://hwstechc.wwwls29.a2hosted.com as a host but still wrong.
Thanks!
Hi there,
I did as how you did it on the video, and still the same. Perhaps there is a security or firewall blocking access to your site?
Instead, please provide your hosting panel’s login credentials, maybe there is an available file manager we can use instead of FTP.
Thanks!
Please come on are you really trying??? I´m showing you on “video” tested with the info on the secure note there is no firewall in between, check carefully, it seems that you don´t wanna help, if you don´t know how to fix the problem please find someone else who can this is taking too much time.
Hi there,
Yes, I said I did it like how you did it on the video, but I still can’t connect.
Plus, I prefer working with FTP as it’s just much faster than using a file manager, but I don’t have a choice since I can’t get in.
Your translation is okay now, your translation files are incorrect. You added it like this,
pro-es_ES.mo pro-es_ES.po
which should be like this
__x__-es_ES.mo __x__-es_ES.po
The __x__ is the textdomain and not pro. The theme is just named pro, but the textdomain is still __x__
They are under, public_html/staging/wp-content/languages/themes
Thanks!
Hi, I need to make ir work with child theme not parent theme I don not Wanna lose my translations on a theme Update, please help.
Hi there,
It will not be overwritten and it will stay there after the update. This public_html/staging/wp-content/languages/themes is not part of
parent theme.
public_html/staging/wp-content/languages/ this is a language folder
public_html/staging/wp-content/themes/ this is theme folder
And they are both different.
Thanks!
So why do offer the Child theme option on function.php related on this page if it is not going to work, update or remove that page because it made lose a lot of time.
Hi there,
There are many ways to do it, and you did some of them. The one that I fixed is the last step that you did under /public_html/wp-content/languages/themes/. And since you just don’t want it to be overwritten, I just said that it’s okay under /public_html/wp-content/languages/themes/ since it’s not connected to updates.
If you really wish to do it in your child theme, then please remove those translation files that are added outside your child theme (eg. /public_html/wp-content/languages/). This way, I can test it and see if it’s really working or not, because if you don’t remove them then Wordpress will still pick the translation files from that folder. Hence, troubleshooting the child theme is no use at all. I don’t want to remove them myself and please backup your site.
Plus, the child theme code should be like this
load_child_theme_textdomain( '__x__', get_stylesheet_directory() . '/lang' );
Thanks!
Hi I deleted the translation from /public_html/wp-content/languages/themes/ and I copied the translations to the following directory /public_html/staging/wp-content/themes/pro-child/lang and added the following code to the child functions.php and didn´t work.
load_child_theme_textdomain( ‘x’, get_stylesheet_directory() . ‘/lang’ );
Note: this is a staging site you can change whatever you need to make it work.
Hi there,
No, you don’t just add that in your child theme’s functions.php, check the above code. You have to change that specific line with the new line that I provided.
Like this
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'load_child_language' );
function load_child_language() {
load_child_theme_textdomain( '__x__', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/lang' );
}
As additional note, you’ll only use this naming
__x__-es_ES.mo __x__-es_ES.po
IF, you added your theme translation under public_html/staging/wp-content/languages/themes/
ELSE, IF you added it in your child theme, then it should be just like this
es_ES.mo es_ES.po
I went ahead and applied all those changes, it’s now working
Thanks.
yes now it is working as I needed thank you.
You’re most welcome!