Title: header translation
Last modified: March 16, 2021

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# header translation

 *  Resolved [claudedunnigan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claudedunnigan/)
 * (@claudedunnigan)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-translation-2/)
 * i want to use this plug-in, i find it easy and usefull, on my test page, the 
   table is great, but cant find where to translate the header in french
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    entries Search:
 * where can i modify those in french please,
    great plug-in, thank you
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   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-translation-2/#post-14194471)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * Normally, this text is translated automatically, if your site uses a language(
   in the admin area) for which a translation file (in the folder [https://github.com/TobiasBg/TablePress/tree/master/i18n/datatables](https://github.com/TobiasBg/TablePress/tree/master/i18n/datatables))
   exists. For this, TablePress uses the language code of the site. For French, 
   this normally is “fr_FR”. If your site is not using a language like that, you
   can force a translation, by adding another parameter to the used Shortcode:
 *     ```
       [table id=123 datatables_locale="fr_FR" /]
       ```
   
 * You could also create custom translation via the TablePress Extension from [https://tablepress.org/extensions/change-datatables-strings/](https://tablepress.org/extensions/change-datatables-strings/)
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [claudedunnigan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claudedunnigan/)
 * (@claudedunnigan)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-translation-2/#post-14195737)
 * OK, i checked, i think i found why, you have a french/france translation, i use
   french/canada, not the same name, my wordpress is in french/canada
 * tablepress-fr-FR.po
    since i use polylang, i also have tablepress-en-CA.po the[
   table id=123 datatables_locale=”fr_FR” /] is a quick fix, but theres should be
   a translation copy from FR To CA, all the terms in there i saw are the same in
   french canadian, thank you
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-translation-2/#post-14195935)
 * Hi,
 * ah, yes, that would explain it.
    Yes, I could indeed add a “fr_CA” copy, probably.
   But probably it would be even better to connect these files to the wordpress.
   org translation system… I’ll think abou that!
 * In the meantime, you could use the Extension that I mentioned above and copy 
   the lang-fr-FR.json to the Extension’s folder and rename it to lang-fr-CA.json.
   That way it will be used automatically and you won’t have to add the Shortcode
   parameter everywhere.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [claudedunnigan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claudedunnigan/)
 * (@claudedunnigan)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-translation-2/#post-14196000)
 * Thank you Tobias
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-translation-2/#post-14196083)
 * Hi,
 * no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂 Good to hear that this helped!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
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   here in the plugin directory. Thanks!
 *  [Maxime Jobin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maximejobin/)
 * (@maximejobin)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-translation-2/#post-14196142)
 * If the plugin is not translated to fr_CA, it can be done.
 * In the meantime, you can add this plugin:
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/preferred-languages/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/preferred-languages/)
 * You setup your site as fr_CA and fallback to fr_FR. That will get you what is
   available in fr_FR if fr_CA is not available for a specific plugin.
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-translation-2/#post-14196274)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for that suggestion! This really looks interesting, I hadn’t seen this
   plugin before!
 * It might not help with this particular problem, because the relevant file is 
   not using the official WordpPress translation mechanism, but it would be worth
   a try!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias

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