Title: Translation gets deleted Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Translation gets deleted * Resolved [phantomsmaug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phantomsmaug/) * (@phantomsmaug) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-gets-deleted/) * So I renamed one language file, removed the translations and used my own -for my language (for few words I needed), but after today’s update it was gone. I had to re-apply it. Is it possible to avoid that? * thanks * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/teachpress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/teachpress/) Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * Plugin Author [winkm89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winkm89/) * (@winkm89) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-gets-deleted/#post-5928732) * Unfortunately that’s a general problem for WordPress plugins. I have no influence on that. So you can only save the changed file before the update and re-upload it after the update. * Thread Starter [phantomsmaug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phantomsmaug/) * (@phantomsmaug) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-gets-deleted/#post-5928751) * Okay, understand, Also I’ve noticed few things… * 1. The author_name =”last” sometimes doesn’t show the name of the author. And if an article doesn’t have an author it shows as , (works fine in ‘simple’). * 2. Some titles start with a quote (see picture). The problem is that plugin/wordpress adds \” instead of a quote (which is problematic when sorting pubs) One of the publications started on it’s own, but some I could not fix (see picuture), until I turned off magic_quotes * This is what i noticed * thanks * Plugin Author [winkm89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winkm89/) * (@winkm89) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-gets-deleted/#post-5928767) * 1. Can you give me an example for author names which doesn’t work with author_name =”last” * 2. Thank’s for this information. In this context I found some general problems with the handling of quotes and double quotes. For example author names like O’Brien or O’Really producing (with magic quotes) more escapes as needed. I’m working on a patch for that. * Thread Starter [phantomsmaug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phantomsmaug/) * (@phantomsmaug) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-gets-deleted/#post-5928770) * Sure, this happens if there’s no author in bibtex: * > [Slikica 17:34:50.png](https://imgur.com/JSNXXS6) * @techreport{_adults_2014, title = {Adults’ Media Use and Attitudes Report}, url = {http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/media-literacy/adults- 2014/2014_Adults_report.pdf}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-01-01}, urldate = { 2015-02-22}, institution = {Ofcom}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {techreport} } * And this happens with some authors: (as you can see, there’s no fist names ( initials) [http://i.imgur.com/lrRT5EX.png](http://i.imgur.com/lrRT5EX.png) * [@article](https://wordpress.org/support/users/article/){Quadrello2005, title = {Grandparents use of new communication technologies in a European perspective}, author = {Quadrello, T. and Hurme, H. and Menzinger, J. and Smith, P.K. and Veisson, M. and Vidal, S. and Westerback, S. * }, url = {http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10433-005-0004-y}, doi ={ 10.1007/s10433-005-0004-y}, issn = {1613-9372, 1613-9380}, year = {2005}, date = {2005-01-01}, urldate = {2015-02-23}, journal = {European Journal of Ageing}, volume = {2}, number = {3}, pages = {200–207}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } * Plugin Author [winkm89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winkm89/) * (@winkm89) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-gets-deleted/#post-5928780) * Thanks. It’s interested to know, that a publication can have no author or editor. 🙂 This bug will also be fixed with the next patch. * For the second example, the behavior is simple to explain. The plugin expects for author and editor names the following basic format: “firstname1 lastname1 and firstname2 lastname2 and …”, which is the recommend format in BibTeX (but unfortunately not required). All other formats leads to problems with name transformations, because the plugin can’t handle that. That’s one of the issues, I have with bibtexParse, which I use for the bibtex import and name transformations. * Thread Starter [phantomsmaug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phantomsmaug/) * (@phantomsmaug) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-gets-deleted/#post-5928806) * Well there probably is an author but their are not specified for some reason. * It seems like some bibtex files that are making issues were probably generated with a tool like endnote or zotero. * I have to check with the person that was importing them on the site * Thread Starter [phantomsmaug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phantomsmaug/) * (@phantomsmaug) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-gets-deleted/#post-5928835) * Is it possible for you to include my partial translation (that might get picked up by someone else in the future and finish it?) into the plugin or are you just accepting the completed translations? * thank you * Plugin Author [winkm89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winkm89/) * (@winkm89) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-gets-deleted/#post-5928837) * Under the consideration, that the most of the language files in the meantime are also incomplete: yes, I can add your language file. * Thread Starter [phantomsmaug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phantomsmaug/) * (@phantomsmaug) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-gets-deleted/#post-5928840) * oh, great, where should I send it? * thanks * Plugin Author [winkm89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winkm89/) * (@winkm89) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-gets-deleted/#post-5928843) * You can find a contact me link with my email adress on [this mage](https://mtrv.wordpress.com/teachpress/) over the “Download teachPress” button. 🙂 * Plugin Author [winkm89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winkm89/) * (@winkm89) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-gets-deleted/#post-5928885) * As a small supplement: I’ve received your language files and they will be a part of the plugin with version 5.0.9 and higher. * [danybl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danybl/) * (@danybl) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-gets-deleted/#post-5928920) * Hi phantomsmaug, * If you want to create you own translations for plugins you have to put the .po and .mo in wp-content\languages\plugins folder and name the files this way : pluginName-en_EN. * Hope this helps Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) The topic ‘Translation gets deleted’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/teachpress/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1110789) * [teachPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/teachpress/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/teachpress/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/teachpress/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/teachpress/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/teachpress/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/teachpress/reviews/) * 12 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [danybl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danybl/) * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-gets-deleted/#post-5928920) * Status: resolved