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Posted by Luisa Nino
Luisa Nino
1,532 Points

Question language in wordpress

I live in Montreal so I have to have stuff in French. I'm working on a site for a non-profit but they installed WP in English so now things like the "continue reading", "Comment form fields", and all that is in English while the content is in French.

I started to change manually my files but then I realized it's a titanic job and there must be a way to do it from within one of the files. I can't purchase the multilingual plugin because as I mentioned, it's a non profit.

Any suggestions?

lucas lemonnier
lucas lemonnier
Courses Plus Student 1,370 Points

Is the wordpress install (the admin/backend) currently in French or in English? If it's in english you would probably have most of your issues resolved by making your install in French. See here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language

lucas lemonnier
lucas lemonnier
Courses Plus Student 1,370 Points

BTW, I'm in MTL also. With most of our work needing to be in both languages, I reeeeaaaaallly wish multilingual issue was handled in core.

Luisa Nino
Luisa Nino
1,532 Points

My install is in English but I have two sites under development, one in Spanish and one in French (independent from one another) but all my messages are in English, for example: No results, no posts found. The form fields are in English (although I installed the Contact Form 7 plug in and I translated that..) The "read more" when I want to insert a break is also in English... ughh..

So without a plugin what i've learned is that I need a theme that is translation ready, go find a pot file and a get a Poeditor and translate all the strings instead of going into every template andfinding a stray English phrase somewhere...

After that I don't know what I have to do! :)

lucas lemonnier
lucas lemonnier
Courses Plus Student 1,370 Points

You may want to look at this: http://wpmu.org/how-to-change-the-default-language-in-wordpress/

2 Answers

John Locke
John Locke
15,479 Points
John Locke
John Locke
15,479 Points

Handy information: thank you Zac!

John Locke
John Locke
15,479 Points
John Locke
John Locke
15,479 Points

Not sure if there is a plug in that handles those stray pieces of text. You might have to go through the code and replace the instances with the equivalent expressions "en francais".

Here is documentation on customizing the Read More link: http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More#Customizing_the_.22more.E2.80.A6.22_text

Most of the comments template that is the HTML structure is near the bottom here: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.5.2/wp-includes/comment-template.php#L0

I would swap out the English for French, keep checking your changes for accuracy, and keep going until you get it.

Save a copy of the original WP files, so you can backtrack if you need to.

Good luck!