Title: Translation: Bug report.
Last modified: April 8, 2022
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# Translation: Bug report.
* [Thobie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thobie/)
* (@thobie)
* [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-bug-report/)
* Hello,
* I have a bug report for the theme Sydney.
* I use a child theme of Sydney.
* The phrase “Comments” on a blog post is not translated into German on the archive
page or on a single blog post page.
* I have checked the language files several times in the Loco Translate plugin
and locally with PoEdit. The term “% Comments” is correctly translated to “%
Kommentare”.
* I can go two ways to tell the WP system to access the language files:
* 1. Language files in the folder wp-content/languages/themes/sydney-child-theme/
languages and the hint for the system with an appropriate PHP code in functions.
php.
* 2. Language files in the folder wp-content/themes/sydney-child-theme/languages.
* Both do not work, the expression is not translated. There must be a bug in the
Sydney theme here. It’s not Loco Translate or PoEdit, as these are just file
editors.
* How do I solve the problem?
* Regards
* Thobie
* The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ftranslation-bug-report%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
to see the link]_
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* [Kharis Sulistiyono](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kharisblank/)
* (@kharisblank)
* [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-bug-report/#post-15542246)
* Hi Thobie,
* As checked from your site’s source code, it looks like you’re using Sydney child
theme that is developed by someone else (not by us). Can you let me know how
your child theme overrides the main theme’s files? Are the strings are [translation-ready](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/functionality/internationalization/).
* Thread Starter [Thobie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thobie/)
* (@thobie)
* [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-bug-report/#post-15542730)
* Hello, Kharis,
* „Can you let me know how your child theme overrides the main theme’s files?“
* I don’t know what that means that the child theme overrides the main theme’s
files?
* „Are the strings are translation-ready.“
* And I also dont’t know what that means.
* Regards
* Thobie
* [Kharis Sulistiyono](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kharisblank/)
* (@kharisblank)
* [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-bug-report/#post-15548310)
* Sorry for being unclear.
* > „Can you let me know how your child theme overrides the main theme’s files?“
* A child theme’s code can make particular code in the main theme not functioning
for replacement. In your case, if you lose translation control for particular
text from main theme’s, may be your child theme replaces the respective code
where it should be translatable by default.
* Please take a look into your child theme’s code and check whether it has particular
text that is shown in the front end or not.
* > Are the strings are translation-ready.
* If you’ve added some text hard coded from child theme, to make it translatable,
you have to follow special rules as mentioned in [this section](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/#internationalization).
* Thread Starter [Thobie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thobie/)
* (@thobie)
* [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-bug-report/#post-15551266)
* Hello, Kharis,
* I use a child theme of sydney, sydney-child-theme. Created by the plugin Orbisius
Child Theme Creator.
* I have created a folder „sydney-child-theme“ in the folder „themes“. In this
folder I have created a folder „languages“. And in this folder I have copied
the translated files:
* de_DE.mo
de_DE.po de_DE_formal.mo de_DE_formal.po sydney.pot
* I also have copied the files:
* extras.php
template-tags.php
* from the parent theme into the new created folder „inc“ in the folder „sydney-
child-theme“ because they are not existing in the child theme.
* And I have inserted the following php code into the functions.php of the child
theme:
* ```
/**
* Loads the child theme textdomain.
*/
function sydney_child_theme_setup() {
load_child_theme_textdomain( 'sydney', get_stylesheet_directory() . '/languages' );
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'sydney_child_theme_setup' );
```
* One example: The string „By“ (the author) cannot be translated in the language
files because it doesn’t exist in this files. But it exists in the file extras.
php. If translated in this file of the child theme to german „Von“ it will be
correctly shown in the frontend. But yesterday I have upgraded the parent theme
to a newer version and now the translation has been disappeard and „By“ appears
once again in the frontend.
* That means the WordPress system doesn’t access the files of the child theme but
the files of the parent theme?
* [Kharis Sulistiyono](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kharisblank/)
* (@kharisblank)
* [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-bug-report/#post-15554988)
* Hi,
* Thank you for getting back along with additional information.
* Please check your child theme’s _template-tags.php_ file and check whether it
has this code block (below) or not.
* ```
if ( ! function_exists( 'sydney_entry_comments' ) ) :
function sydney_entry_comments() {
if ( ! post_password_required() && ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) ) {
echo '';
}
}
endif;
```
* If not, try replicating it and run your test.
* Thread Starter [Thobie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thobie/)
* (@thobie)
* [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-bug-report/#post-15555411)
* Hello, Kharis,
* the template-tags.php of the child theme has the following php code with the
german translation of three english words:
* ```
if ( ! function_exists( 'sydney_entry_comments' ) ) :
function sydney_entry_comments() {
if ( ! post_password_required() && ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) ) {
echo '';
}
}
endif;
```
* Thread Starter [Thobie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thobie/)
* (@thobie)
* [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-bug-report/#post-15578368)
* Hello, Kharis,
* since I’ve been waiting for an answer from you for four days, but it hasn’t come,
I assume that this is a bug in the theme, can’t be fixed and I have to live with
it. Too bad. The theme is otherwise very good, only this small error clouds the
whole thing but something.
* Regards
* Thobie
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* Last activity: [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-bug-report/#post-15578368)
* Status: not resolved