Title: Making Strings Translatable (WPML)
Last modified: September 1, 2016

---

# Making Strings Translatable (WPML)

 *  [audigem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/audigem/)
 * (@audigem)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-strings-translatable-wpml/)
 * Hi there,
 * This is more of a recommendation.
 * You may want to convert your strings, like the date strings ‘Month’ and ‘Ago’,
   to translatable pieces, like __(‘Ago’, ‘li_update’). A lot of people integrate
   multilingual sites, and it would be very user friendly. Good plugin practice 
   either way.
 * Also, I recommend adding classes to the various html components by default (like
   the span, i, div, first image in the div, and h3). I have to do it myself, and
   once there’s a plugin update… I lose all that custom markup. It would be very
   useful for custom styling.
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/company-updates-for-linkedin/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/company-updates-for-linkedin/)

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

 *  [kosmiq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kosmiq/)
 * (@kosmiq)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-strings-translatable-wpml/#post-8138153)
 * Hi,
 * I don’t know if you’ve solved this but I ran into the same issue and took matters
   into my own hand and created something that’s mostly translatable. Have a look
   here: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-of-plugin-with-fixed-files-on-github-3/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-of-plugin-with-fixed-files-on-github-3/)
 *  Plugin Author [Andrew Rockwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockwell15/)
 * (@rockwell15)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-strings-translatable-wpml/#post-8541620)
 * Thanks for the feedback, the latest release allows all strings to be translated.
 * There are fields in the plugin’s settings page for you to add a class to the 
   container & the items, then you can specify the span / a / etc. style from there.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

The topic ‘Making Strings Translatable (WPML)’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/company-updates-for-linkedin_1b76a4.
   svg)
 * [LinkedIn Company Updates](https://wordpress.org/plugins/company-updates-for-linkedin/)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/company-updates-for-linkedin/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/company-updates-for-linkedin/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/company-updates-for-linkedin/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/company-updates-for-linkedin/reviews/)

## Tags

 * [company](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/company/)
 * [Updates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/updates/)

 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Andrew Rockwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockwell15/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-strings-translatable-wpml/#post-8541620)
 * Status: not resolved