Title: Theme translate
Last modified: August 30, 2016
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# Theme translate
* Resolved [clane_workforce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clane_workforce/)
* (@clane_workforce)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/)
* I registered string in my functions.php
* I show the string in “Strings Translation”
* I put this in my footer.php file to echo the string:
* ``
* In the footer it shows the number 0
* [http://dev.workforcesoftware.com/](http://dev.workforcesoftware.com/)
* Your help is appreciated:)
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* Plugin Support [Chrystl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrystl/)
* (@chrystl)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/#post-6686785)
* Hi
What did you put in `$footer-text`?
* Thread Starter [clane_workforce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clane_workforce/)
* (@clane_workforce)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/#post-6686834)
* Hi Chrysti,
* My function in functions.php:
* `pll_register_string('footer_text', 'My test text', 'Divi');`
* Plugin Support [Chrystl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrystl/)
* (@chrystl)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/#post-6686905)
* Is the `$footer-text` value is `pll_register_string('footer_text', 'My test text','
Divi');` ?
* Thread Starter [clane_workforce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clane_workforce/)
* (@clane_workforce)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/#post-6686927)
* yes
* Plugin Support [Chrystl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrystl/)
* (@chrystl)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/#post-6686939)
* Please try with:
pll_e( ‘footer_text’ )
* Thread Starter [clane_workforce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clane_workforce/)
* (@clane_workforce)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/#post-6686944)
* That prints “footer_text” to the footer, not “My test text”. Thank you for your
continued help:)
* Plugin Support [Chrystl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrystl/)
* (@chrystl)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/#post-6686946)
* What did you fill in your Strings translations option for footer_text (Settings
> Languages > Strings translation tab)?
* Thread Starter [clane_workforce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clane_workforce/)
* (@clane_workforce)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/#post-6686949)
* That was automatically populated with “My test text”. I clicked save button anyhow
to see if that would instantiate the text. Nothing. I reverted back to the default
theme footer code and asked the theme author for assistance. This should show
in the Strings Translation. The only option I have for string translation with
this theme is the divi_date_format this is also the only option in the wpml-config.
xml
file aside from the SEO options which I am not using.
* Plugin Support [Chrystl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrystl/)
* (@chrystl)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/#post-6686951)
* Could you paste here the wpml-config.xml?
* Thread Starter [clane_workforce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clane_workforce/)
* (@clane_workforce)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/#post-6686959)
* Here is the master for this theme: [https://github.com/kennethryerson/Divi/blob/master/wpml-config.xml](https://github.com/kennethryerson/Divi/blob/master/wpml-config.xml)
* Plugin Support [Chrystl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrystl/)
* (@chrystl)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/#post-6686964)
* It does help.
Go in your database in the wp_options table and try to find the
option name where are stored all the theme options. Copy/paste here the option_value
and give me the option_name.
* Thread Starter [clane_workforce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clane_workforce/)
* (@clane_workforce)
* [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/#post-6687096)
* What option are you looking for, as I do not understand what you are asking me
to find. There are many option for the Divi them in the options table. I have
also contacted the theme author with this issue and was told that it is a plugin
issue and that I should use WPML. So, I am hoping you can resolve this issue.
Thanks:)
* Thread Starter [clane_workforce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clane_workforce/)
* (@clane_workforce)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/#post-6687104)
* I am trying this again. Please see my code blow. It doesn’t work and nothing
is shown but empty paragraph tags in source code. Any ideas?
* functions.php:
* ```
if(function_exists('pll_register_string')){
pll_register_string($copyright, 'Copyright © 1999 - 2015 My Company', 'ThemeName');
}
```
* footer.php:
* ``
* Plugin Support [Chrystl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrystl/)
* (@chrystl)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/#post-6687106)
* There a short tutorial to use pll_register_string and pll_e: [http://nimb.ws/vNVnMf](http://nimb.ws/vNVnMf)
* Does it help?
* Thread Starter [clane_workforce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clane_workforce/)
* (@clane_workforce)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/#post-6687108)
* Yes this fixed the issue, thank you so much!
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* [pll_register_string](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pll_register_string/)
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* Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-translate/page/2/#post-6687173)
* Status: resolved