Issues with translation

  • Resolved chrisnivlac1

    (@chrisnivlac1)


    1 year, 3 months ago

    Hi guys,

    I tried to translate a specific Plug-in (WP Esignature by Approvme) from English to German. After installing it there was German as a package already installed in Loco beside Endlish. Did everything how it is described and changed the wordpress general settings to German. Unfortunately my whole wordpress was now in German which I didn’t like, as others working with me have access to my wordpress but are English speakers.

    So after doing some research I read online that, in order to just have the Esignature plug-in translated, I will keed to manually delete German within each dingle theme, plug-in and in the WordPress section of Loco beside the plug-in which should be translated.

    So I tied to delete German in the sections Themes, Plug-ins and WordPress in the hope that I can change back most of my WordPress content to English while leaving the E-signature tool in German. Worked at the first glance, but now everything is back to English and I don`t find German anymore when I go to Loco Translate -> Languages. Also in my general WordPress settings there is no German option anymore.

    Can anyone help me out?

    Thank you very much in advance.

    Best

    Chris

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  • Plugin Author Tim W

    (@timwhitlock)

    1 year, 3 months ago

    My plugin doesn’t control language settings, or switching between them.

    It’s not conventional to translate just one plugin. There is no mechanism in WordPress [that I know of] that’s designed to achieve that. At any moment there is one language setting, which is either the site language or the currently logged in user’s language. None of this has anything to do with my plugin.

    I suggest your colleagues who want English set their profile to English, and your German speakers set their profile to German. Trying to juggle languages for a single plugin sounds like a path to confusion and disappointment.

    If you deleted ALL your German translation files (including WordPress core), this is why you no longer see them in Loco Translate -> Languages. You must have the core translations installed for the language to show up as being “installed”.

    Thread Starter chrisnivlac1

    (@chrisnivlac1)

    1 year, 3 months ago

    Hi Tim,

    Thanks for the response.

    Well yeah. I think that is what I did. How can I get the core translation back? We tried to deactivate and uninstall loco before installing it again. That did not help.

    Plugin Author Tim W

    (@timwhitlock)

    1 year, 3 months ago

    How can I get the core translation back?

    Read the WordPress docs: https://developer.ww.wp.xz.cn/advanced-administration/before-install/in-your-language/

    This is outside of my plugin support, but I’ll tell you a trick –

    Use Loco Translate to add a core language file in German, in the system location. Enter anything into it and save. Then go to WordPress updates and scroll to the bottom. As long as you successfully created a file at wp-content/languages/de_DE.mo then the update screen should say “New translations are available” and you can update them from there.

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