Title: Make attribute names translatable Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Make attribute names translatable * Resolved [Steffen Ehrmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steffen-ehrmann/) * (@steffen-ehrmann) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/) * When translating my webshop, I am also interested in translating categories, tags and attributes to the products I want to offer. * Say I want to add an attribute “Background” to my product with terms “glossy, matte, canvas, etc”, this should than be “Hintergrund” in german with terms “ Glänzend, Matt, Leinwand, etc”. Translating the terms is no problem, but unfortunately I did not find an option to also translate the attribute name from “Background” to “Hintergrund”. * I have the impression that this could be fixed rather easily. * Thanks for making translations also for woocommerce easily available! This plugin did the trick for me, after trying to fix too many problems with “qTranslate Plus” et al. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/qtranslate-x/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/qtranslate-x/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/page/2/?output_format=md) * Plugin Author [John Clause](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnclause/) * (@johnclause) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/#post-5640650) * Hi Steffen, I am not sure, what you mean, I have to play with woocommerce, I guess. Which plugin exactly do you use? * Have you tried to use [:] tags in those fields? Please, read FAQ and description, if you do not know what I mean. Let me know if you figure it out. Thanks! * Thread Starter [Steffen Ehrmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steffen-ehrmann/) * (@steffen-ehrmann) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/#post-5640656) * Hi John, * ah sorry, I thought you are familiar with woocomerce. Yes, I tried to use the[:]- notation, but unfortunately it does not work. * When you add a product to woocommerce you can assign categories and tags to it as we are used to it from vanila wordpress. But additionally you can add attributes which describe a certain model or style of the product. If you want to sell a shirt in blue and yellow, blue and yellow would be the attributes and “colour” would be the attribute name. Unfortunately this attribute name is not translatable. * Thanks for looking into this! Steffen * Thread Starter [Steffen Ehrmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steffen-ehrmann/) * (@steffen-ehrmann) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/#post-5640695) * Unfortunately the 2.9.1 bugfix did not help it. Here is a link to the respective page: [http://www.ehrmann-photography.de/?product=41&lang=en](http://www.ehrmann-photography.de/?product=41&lang=en). Maybe this is a theme-bug? * I tried to set the id “attribute_label” as Custom-fields id (this is the id the field has in the admin-panel when setting attribute names. Also the class “product_label”( the class this text has on the website does not show an effect. * Thread Starter [Steffen Ehrmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steffen-ehrmann/) * (@steffen-ehrmann) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/#post-5640767) * bump * Plugin Author [John Clause](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnclause/) * (@johnclause) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/#post-5640769) * There is a number of plugins which are supposed to make woocommerce compatible with qTranslate(-X). For example, “qTranslate support for WooCommerce” “IM8 qTranslate WooCommerce”, “WooCommerce-qTML”. You have to use them with the latest version from [GitHub](https://github.com/qTranslate-Team/qtranslate-x), which can be downloaded from there (look for button Download), or click [here](https://github.com/qTranslate-Team/qtranslate-x/archive/master.zip) for the sake of convenience. It currently gets updated very frequently, it is better to sign up for notices from github for this repository. * However, it seems that none of them solves all the problems. * We are currently working with one user on his woocommerce installation, and he says there is one only problem left for him (sending confirmation e-mails). Once he is fully ok, we will know how to set it up, and will of course, share it with you. Thanks a lot. * [Manos Psychogyiopoulos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franticpsyx/) * (@franticpsyx) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/#post-5640770) * WC-qTML just received an update for WC 2.2 – localization of e-mails should now work again. WC 2.2 changed a few things with po-mo files, which should now reside in the WP_LANG_DIR/woocommerce directory. * The plugin is not maintained actively these days, but I frequently check pull requests and issues at [https://github.com/franticpsyx/woocommerce-qtml](https://github.com/franticpsyx/woocommerce-qtml). So if anyone wants to contribute to the code in any way, feel free. * Plugin Author [John Clause](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnclause/) * (@johnclause) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/#post-5640774) * [@steffen-ehrmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steffen-ehrmann/): The [very latest from github](https://github.com/qTranslate-Team/qtranslate-x/archive/master.zip) has some more modifications towards woocommerce integration, although I doubt that it will help your problem, but who knows, maybe. * I have just made Woocommerce work for one of the users, he gave me access to his site and a modification of woocommerce code was required, but not with respect to what you describe. I am in contact with woocommerce on the issue. If you still have problem, you may give me a login to a test-copy of your site (qtranslateteam at gm a il d co m), where I could do any modifications without interfering with you. I would like to make woocommerce fully compatible. * Plugin Author [John Clause](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnclause/) * (@johnclause) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/#post-5640775) * [@franticpsyx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franticpsyx/): I am using WC 2.2.11. * > localization of e-mails should now work again * The problem I had, was not related to po-mo files. Did you review the woocommerce thread: [https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/pull/7308](https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/pull/7308)? * I am going to submit another PR to them, with filter solution, unless you give me something else. * [Manos Psychogyiopoulos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franticpsyx/) * (@franticpsyx) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/#post-5640776) * Perhaps I’m missing something, but why can’t you just filter the output of the particular `get_option()` call you want to localize? * Plugin Author [John Clause](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnclause/) * (@johnclause) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/#post-5640777) * [@franticpsyx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franticpsyx/): because, even I filter, it still gets translated with their __(), which I do not want in some case, as described in [https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/pull/7308](https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/pull/7308). Please, continue this discussion at woocommerce thread, so that woocommerce people would be able to see it too. * Plugin Author [John Clause](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnclause/) * (@johnclause) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/#post-5640781) * [@steffen-ehrmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steffen-ehrmann/): did you get it working? Do you still need help? * Plugin Author [John Clause](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnclause/) * (@johnclause) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/#post-5640782) * [@franticpsyx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franticpsyx/): BTW, woocommerce was kind enough to accept my suggestion on filter instead of `__()`, look in their latest file `woocommerce/includes/emails/class-wc-email.php`: * ``` public function get_option( $key, $empty_value = null ) { return apply_filters( 'woocommerce_email_get_option', __( parent::get_option( $key, $empty_value ) ), $this ); } ``` * This means that woocommerce can now be configured to be fully compatible with qTranslate-X! I am going to publish instructions somewhere on how to do it. * Thread Starter [Steffen Ehrmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steffen-ehrmann/) * (@steffen-ehrmann) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/#post-5640784) * John, I did not get it working with your newest master.zip. * See on this page: [http://www.ehrmann-photography.de/?product=41&lang=en](http://www.ehrmann-photography.de/?product=41&lang=en) you should be able to change language and you will see that everything works, except ‘[:de]Hintergrund[:en]Background’. * I am looking into creating a copy for you. I will also take a loot at the code, maybe I can figure it out already. Will than tell you what I got. * Plugin Author [John Clause](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnclause/) * (@johnclause) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/#post-5640785) * Steffen, I assume you tried all the mentioned above plugins that claim to marry q- with woo-, did you? * Yes, a test-copy of the site would help a lot. If you give me the missing in those plugins filter name, it would be great too. * Thread Starter [Steffen Ehrmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steffen-ehrmann/) * (@steffen-ehrmann) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/#post-5640786) * I did not try them yesterday night yet, now I did. * ‘qTranslate support for WooCommerce’ has this under known issues: 1. - Categories/Attributes/etc show up untranslated in the backend. * The other two seem to mention that it works, but it does not for me. One thing I recognized was that the attribute name is being shown in uppercase, while everything else is normal on the product page. But this does not explain why I do not get the ‘qtranxs-lang-switch-wrap’ class in the page where I set up Attributes, in comparison to ‘Delivery Times’, ‘Categories’, ‘Tags’ and ‘Shipping Classes’. But then, also the class ‘search-form’ seems to be missing on this page. * edit: Also deactivating all plugins except woocommerce and q-translate-X does not help Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Make attribute names translatable’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/qtranslate-x_f9f9f9.svg) * [qTranslate X](https://wordpress.org/plugins/qtranslate-x/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/qtranslate-x/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/qtranslate-x/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/qtranslate-x/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/qtranslate-x/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/qtranslate-x/reviews/) ## Tags * [attribute](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/attribute/) * [attribute name](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/attribute-name/) * [attributes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/attributes/) * 17 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [John Clause](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnclause/) * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-attribute-names-translatable/page/2/#post-5640789) * Status: resolved