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1. teamplaylotto
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have made my plugin with language support (I hope!) and created a .po file . Someone has used the po file to create a portuguese translation.

   how to do I test it out, I tried changing the wp_lang bit in the config file to PT but the plugin was still using english, I checked with another plugin that has language files (xml sitemap) and it was also in english but the rest of the standard dashboard options were in portuguese

   would any kind Portugal soul care to download and test the plugin to see if it works with the Portuguese translation file?
   Commentluv plugin

2. moshu
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   .po files do nothing for translation on the site: they serve only the translator! You need the .mo file to make it work.

   See also: http://boren.nu/archives/2004/11/01/localizing-plugins-and-themes/

3. teamplaylotto
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   oh I put that there too.
   I even opened up the original po file I made and copied across the translations and saved it as commentluv-pt_PT.po and poedit made a .mo file to go with it but it still displayed english

   also the sitemap plugin had plenty of .mo files and that displayed english too

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