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1. pmdci
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Hi there,

   I am having a hard time trying to localize a plug-in called custom-taxonomies and I would appreciate some help.

   I ran POEDIT against the sourcecode of the plug-in (I have used POEDIT to localise themes and plugins before), and I successfully translated all the strings and saved the localisation as custom-taxonomies-pt_BR.po and custom-taxonomies-pt_BR.mo

   Then I added the following code in custom-taxonomies.php file. This is the first function being called at the very top of the file, just after the license comments:

   // Enable internationalisation
   $plugin_dir = basename(dirname(__FILE__));
   load_plugin_textdomain( 'custom-taxonomies', 'wp-content/plugins/' . $plugin_dir, $plugin_dir );

   OBS: I checked other plug-ins which can works with localisations and this is pretty much the way they enable internationalisation. Please correct me if I am wrong.

   2) Then I uploaded my translated files custom-taxonomies-pt_BR.mo and custom-taxonomies-pt_BR.po (even though I am quite sure this one is not necessary) to the plug-in's root directory.

   However, for some reason this plug-in just doesn't want to be localised!!! Can someone please advise?

   Thanks,
   P.

2. pmdci
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   I found the solution. Basically the author of this plug-in didn't prepare it enough for localisations. This is what needs to be added to the very first function in custom-taxonomies.php:

   // Enable internationalisation
   $plugin_dir = basename(dirname(__FILE__));
   load_plugin_textdomain( 'custom_taxonomies', 'wp-content/plugins/' . $plugin_dir, $plugin_dir );

   You can see that the textdomain for this plug-in is custom_taxonomies and NOT custom-taxonomies (which is how the plug-in is called, its directory and its main php file). By replacing custom-taxonomies with custom_taxonomies in the above function, everything works fine.

   you MUST add this function in the custom-taxonomy.php file as the very function at the top, just after the license comments. The author of this plug-in haven't added this. Without this function, it would never load the localisations.

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