Multisite with bilingual buttons, etc

  • StevenMitchell

    (@stevenmitchell)


    12 years, 2 months ago

    Hello,

    I have done a lot of searching in this forum and on the web, but I haven’t found a solution to this problem without the use of plugins. Apologies if a similar request has been posted before.

    Basically, I have a WP Multisite in English and German. However, we want items such as ‘Read More’ and Search buttons, etc to appear in English on the English site and German in the German.

    The sites are separate because content is written specifically for each territory. So some blog posts in German won’t always appear in the English site and vice and versa.

    Obviously, WP multisites use one theme, so I was wondering if there is anyway this can be achieved. I have read about localising WP using mo and po files and the ‘wp_config.php’ file, but this would set-up WP in one specified language.

    When I look in this area of the dashboard:

    Network Admin > Site > Settings tab

    Is see options for:

    WPLANG and Langbf

    Would changing these settings help?

    Any solutions and ideas would be greatly appreciated. Remember, I don’t really want to use a plugin if I can avoid it.

    Thanks

    Steven

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  • Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Try to translate the theme with a plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codestyling-localization/
    It can scan your theme for all translatable strings and create po and .mo files.

    tutorial

    There’s no need to set the language in wp-config.php as English is the default language. Only set it if you want a different language in the wp-admin.

    Thread Starter StevenMitchell

    (@stevenmitchell)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks keesiemeijer. I have started to use this plug-in and it works well. However, I couldn’t localise English words used in sidebar widgets into German. I couldn’t find the words in the WordPress .mo and .po files and those for the theme.

    Each version of the website has it’s own Child theme, so the php files can be localised that way too. But, I need to be careful when a new version of theme is applied.

    Regards

    SM

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