Title: Improve / Edit localiation
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Improve / Edit localiation

 *  [marksimons2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marksimons2/)
 * (@marksimons2)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improve-edit-localiation/)
 * Hi, im using Customizr and its already localized to german. But there are some
   words that arent localized yet, as you can see at the comments-section here:
 * [http://www.marksimons.de/fliegerhorst-ffb-gate-guards/](http://www.marksimons.de/fliegerhorst-ffb-gate-guards/)
 * It says: “2 thoughts on …” but i would like to change that into german words.
 * I already created a child theme and activated that but need some help how to 
   edit these strings.
 * Thank you for your help,
    Mark

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 *  [ElectricFeet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/electricfeet/)
 * (@electricfeet)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improve-edit-localiation/#post-5040914)
 * See this guide to [setting up WordPress multilingual sites with Customizr](http://www.themesandco.com/customizr/setting-wordpress-multilingual-sites-customizr/).
   In your case, you need a hybrid approach: take the existing .po file for German
   and update it. You can use it immediately on your site, but it would be great
   if you could also send to nikeo via the themesandco site, so that others can 
   benefit.
 * (Apologies for the list-item formatting in the guide; we’ll get to fix it at 
   some point.)
 *  Thread Starter [marksimons2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marksimons2/)
 * (@marksimons2)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improve-edit-localiation/#post-5040978)
 * Thank you very much. I followed your description and the country-code was already
   selected in WPLANG. Then i downloaded Poedit as described and corrected two errors
   that were already in that file .
 * But the string i was looking for isnt listed there. In the customizr-theme the
   headline above my comments is for example “2 thoughts on …” but the only string
   explaing in the po-file says “2 Comments on …”:
 * [http://cl.ly/image/3J0O180y423z](http://cl.ly/image/3J0O180y423z)
 * and as you can see it is translated already.
 * Is it possible that Customizr uses it’s own translation or some own words (i.
   e: “thoughts” instead of “comments”)?
 *  Thread Starter [marksimons2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marksimons2/)
 * (@marksimons2)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improve-edit-localiation/#post-5041018)
 * I just found out that the string i searched for has to be located in the comments.
   php but when i open the one that is provided with customizr it isn’t there. Ispent
   so many hours to look into that to change these tiny bugs but maybe it shouldn’t
   be. I really like Customizr but dont understand the po-file-Localization if not
   all strings weren’t listed there. Maybe it’s not even related to your nice theme
   but a general wordpress-bug. I have no idea what to do now…
 *  [ElectricFeet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/electricfeet/)
 * (@electricfeet)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improve-edit-localiation/#post-5041045)
 * Yes, it looks like the German file is not up to date.
 * Take a backup of the de_DE.po file and then edit it with a text editor—**not**
   a word-processing app and not poedit. Change the following:
 *     ```
       #: ../parts/class-content-comments.php:63
       #, php-format
       msgid "One thought on “%2$s”"
       msgstr "Ein Gedanke zu “%2$s”"
       ```
   
 * to
 *     ```
       #: ../parts/class-content-comments.php:63
       #, php-format
       msgid "One thought on “%2$s”"
       msgid_plural "%1$s thoughts on “%2$s”"
       msgstr[0] "Ein Gedanke zu “%2$s”"
       msgstr[1] "%1$s Gedanken sur “%2$s”"
       ```
   
 * Save the file and re-open it with poedit and check everything is OK. Resave with
   poedit (because this will create the .mo file) and put the .mo and .po files 
   into the lang folder on your host.
 * I’ll raise this for nikeo’s attention.

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