Posted 1 month ago #
Is there a way to have the 'default' text in my blog in Spanish?
I am using the multiblog system, so I do not need 'all' of my blogs in Spanish, just one in particular.
We are writing all the content in Spanish, so I'm not looking for translation, but it would be good to have the "blog roll, categories, leave a comment, etc" in Spanish. Can I set this up in the template(s) or is a plugin of some sort the best option?
why not just use a spanish wordpress version where all that is done?
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Localization#Spanish_-_Espa.C3.B1ol_.28es_ES.29
Posted 1 month ago #
Because I'm using multiblog, wouldn't that change all my blogs to Spanish?
I'm presently running over 10 blogs (and growing) for our organization.
Also, I don't speak Spanish, but I'm the design guy and WP tech guy. One of our writers (who is bilingual) is imputing the Spanish editorial but I need to be able to 'function' on the site to do what I need.
try the MU forums
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/
Posted 1 month ago #
Didn't find anything there-- still looking. The issue is everything seems to translate everything, all I need is the template/theme provided text to be Spanish.
As you might know, translators in general are pretty bad, they just make the words into the language you want and do not consider sentence structure or grammar of the translated language-- that's why we write our own stories.
Posted 1 month ago #
1) Localize your theme - make it translatable. An example of a theme that is translatable so all content and sidebars e.g. are in Spanish would be the Classic Theme in the WPMU 2.8.4a folder. Google for how to localize a theme - urbangiraffe and _() and _e() comes to mind
2) You can also localize Admin Interface - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-admin-interface-language/
3) http://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Languages
4) And of course they should input content in Spanish
Otherwise, you might just only need a translate/translation plugin - you will find in WordPress Extend Plugins
Posted 1 month ago #
Thanks for the help--
Looks like I found something that is working for us-- the "xLanguage" plugin.
We don't use the feature of letting the visitors choose a language (since we're writing everything in Spanish), and it translates all the theme default text for us. It just leaves a few words here-and-there to translate (no comments, filed in, etc.)
Again, thanks
To follow-up, when you localize your MU blogs, you can actually have one blog display in one language and the rest in another (see wordpress.com for example).
But hey, a one-off plugin works too.
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