You can use something like
if($currentlang=="en-CA"): ?>
at an appropriate location in your themes header.php to test the current language and act accordingly.
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herz84
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Thanks for your reply, but can you please be more specific on what & where I should use the code you’re suggesting? I’m not that familiair with PHP.
Thanks!
I am sorry for the late response as I failed to note this message before. You need to use it in your themes header.php file, replacing the code used to display the logo.
Always use child themes to implement such changes, they help you keep the original theme files safe and more importantly you can update them without ever fearing of getting your changes overwritten.
Thanks!
I’m not sure but if I understood correctly you can as well create a xml file making that option translatable within polylang language/strings page.
Although that issue with Attitude theme has been discussed here on WPML forum : http://wpml.org/forums/topic/attitude-theme-making-the-home-page-slogan-theme-options-translatable/
And it seems wpml team rewrote the header of the theme to make it work properly.
Anybody with better knowledge than me might be able to tell from http://pastebin.com/e7w8RC8B if the xml is the easy solution, as option’s name seems clearly visible.
The solution provided by Tanver would work too, but you would need to ‘hardcode’ your slogans within a file, and do that for each changes… I tend to end up doing things like that too, as I’m not able to set correct solution, so I won’t blame his solution more than I can afford to 🙂 Although a proper solution imply to be able to set slogans from the admin, not editing files each time.
Hope a skilled wordpressor will give you a hand, peace.
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herz84
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Sorry for the late reply, but Seb81, you saved the day! The solution provided by the WPML forum works perfectly for the Attitude theme and the Polylang plugin. Thank you so much for sharing!
Dear herz84 I am having exactly the same issue. Could you please explain what steps you took. I also have Attitude and am using a child theme. I am not sure how to go about making the changes referred to in the WPML forum.
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herz84
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Hi James,
I just followed the steps provided in the WPML forum (http://wpml.org/forums/topic/attitude-theme-making-the-home-page-slogan-theme-options-translatable/):
I added the icl_translate function in the file: /attitude/library/structure/header-extensions.php in lines 388 and 391.
I also commented the set_transient function that your theme uses. Changed function: http://pastebin.com/e7w8RC8B
You can now translate that into the String Translation. Note that you need to write these slogans in English: Appearance > Theme Options > Advanced Options.
So then you can translate it to other languages.
Thank you for your help. I suppose I was just looking for a bit more detail. EG how to add the icl_translate function to my child theme. And I am not sure what “commented” means. Could you possibly set out in more basic steps how to achieve this? I appreciate any help.
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herz84
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I can help you, but not now (I’m at work :-p). Will write down in more detail tonight okay?
Thank you I really appreciate your help. FYI the site is http://chaletjordan.com
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herz84
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Sorry, totally forgot yesterday. But here’s what I did:
– Browse in your FTP-program to /wp-content/themes/attitude-child/library/structure (I named my child-theme ‘attitude-child’, that might be different at your site) and open the file ‘header-extensions.php’ (make a copy of the file in advance on your local hard drive to be sure)
– Copy the code from the pastebin-link above. Replace the code in the ‘header-extensions.php’ file on lines 376 to 401 with the copied code from the pastebin-link and save the file.
– if you go to the admin-section of your website, browse to Settings > Languages. Choose the second tab (‘translations’). If you scroll down, 2 new fields should appear now: wpml_custom_slogan1 and wpml_custom_slogan2. At wpml_custom_slogan1 you can fill out a (in your case) French version of the home slogan :-).
Hope this explanation works for you! Good luck!
