Title: Translating “by” string
Last modified: March 29, 2018

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# Translating “by” string

 *  [fidoboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fidoboy/)
 * (@fidoboy)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translating-by-string/)
 * Hi, can you provide support for translating the “by” string before the author’s
   name?
 * Thanks in advance,

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 *  Plugin Author [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * (@ajay)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translating-by-string/#post-10156429)
 * This can be done by creating a language file for the plugin in this folder
 * `/wp-content/languages/plugins`. You will need to create this folder if it doesn’t
   exist.
 * You can do the translations using PoEdit
 * You can also use Loco Translate – [https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/)
   for this.
 *  Thread Starter [fidoboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fidoboy/)
 * (@fidoboy)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translating-by-string/#post-10156801)
 * I’ve tried but there isn’t such string. There are many strings that can be translated
   for the backend interface but not for the widget being displayed on frontend
 *  Plugin Author [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * (@ajay)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translating-by-string/#post-10156874)
 * Hi, there should be a string here:
 * [https://github.com/WebberZone/top-10/blob/master/languages/top-10-en_US.pot#L1311](https://github.com/WebberZone/top-10/blob/master/languages/top-10-en_US.pot#L1311)
 *  Thread Starter [fidoboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fidoboy/)
 * (@fidoboy)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translating-by-string/#post-10157730)
 * I’ve tried using Loco Translate, but it doesn’t work. String keeps unchanged
 *  Plugin Author [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * (@ajay)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translating-by-string/#post-10158195)
 * Have you tried creating a .po / .mo file either using Loco or PoEdit and then
   saving it in the languages folder?
 * Please see below the tutorial from WP Beginner in case of any doubt – [http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-translate-a-wordpress-plugin-in-your-language/](http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-translate-a-wordpress-plugin-in-your-language/)
 *  [badi365](https://wordpress.org/support/users/badi365/)
 * (@badi365)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translating-by-string/#post-10610960)
 * Turns out this is not a newbie problem. There is a problem with the word ” by”
   including the spaces. I am using Poedit and can translate other words and sentences
   fine except the ” by ” that appears before the author on the public pages.
 * I have been going nuts over this as I thought I was doing something wrong and
   this word was my first target, but when I tried translating other words (at least
   in the admin section), it worked fine with my .po and .mo files which are saved
   in the following location:
 * wordpress\wp-content\plugins\top-10\languages
 * I’ll be skipping the author field until this is fixed.
 *  Plugin Author [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * (@ajay)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translating-by-string/#post-10617489)
 * I’ve looked at the code and noticed there is a bug there where it is using the
   wrong language domain. Should be top-10
 * I will fix this in the next version.
 *  [badi365](https://wordpress.org/support/users/badi365/)
 * (@badi365)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translating-by-string/#post-10617502)
 * Excellent, thank you!
    Best wishes Róbert Badí

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