UPDATE: If I try to translate an already existing row in the translation file I see the results I expect. When I try to create a new row I have problems.
Here is the code that I have added to the .pot file and .po file for this plugin
#. Shipment Order Note
#: includes/api-requests/class-wc-shipstation-api-shipnotify.php:268
#, php-format
msgid “%1$s shipped via %2$s on %3$s with tracking number %4$s”
msgstr “Your order shipped via %2$s on %3$s with tracking number %4$s”
I did this based on the following code that also existed in both the .po and .pot files
#. 1) number of shipped items 2) total shipped items 3) order ID
#: includes/api-requests/class-wc-shipstation-api-shipnotify.php:284
#, php-format
msgid “Shipped %1$d out of %2$d items in order %3$s”
msgstr “Your order was shipped via %2$s on %3$s with tracking number %4$s”
If I edit the php file referenced in both spots I can see that the second translate works.
Any advice you can give would greatly be appreciated.
The text I am trying to translate is a row that I had to add. Is the problem that your plugin was unable to pick up that string initially? Does that fact that I had to add it mean, that the plugin is unable to find that string to do the replace? Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
thank you.
Plugin Author
Tim W
(@timwhitlock)
Never modify msgid fields. This is not how to customize text and it won’t work.
If you want alternative English text, just create an English->English translation.
That’s what I’m trying to do.
The line of text I wanted to translate didn’t appear in the initial file so I created a new entry for the line that text.
Plugin Author
Tim W
(@timwhitlock)
I’m not following. Did you add a new msgid or not?
Yes. I added a new message ID. I wanted to “translate” –>
%1$s shipped via %2$s on %3$s with tracking number %4$s
to
“Your order shipped via %2$s on %3$s with tracking number %4$s”
there was not a message id for “%1$s shipped via %2$s on %3$s with tracking number %4$s ”
so I created one.
Here is the code for the newly created entry
#. Shipment Order Note
#: includes/api-requests/class-wc-shipstation-api-shipnotify.php:268
#, php-format
msgid “%1$s shipped via %2$s on %3$s with tracking number %4$s”
msgstr “Your order shipped via %2$s on %3$s with tracking number %4$s”
Plugin Author
Tim W
(@timwhitlock)
OK, I’ve downloaded your plugin to try and understand what’s going on here.
The woocommerce-shipstation plugin uses a bunch of translations from the main woocommerce plugin (including your example string on line 268). This is why the string isn’t extracted by Loco Translate – it belongs to another plugin.
However, your example string isn’t actually present in the latest version of woocommerce, so it’s either a mistake in the plugin PHP code, or the plugin is using strings from an older version of the main woocommerce plugin. Either way, this is not a fault in Loco Translate and you should report the erroneous strings to the author as a bug.
Adding the missing strings manually into the woocommerce-shipstation files will never work because WordPress will try to load them from woocommerce files instead.
Thank you for the explanation. I’ll contact woocommerce and see what they say.
