solidaritelocale

Sorry for the late answer.

I confirm that putting .po and .mo files in the /wp-content/languages/plugins/ folder works. No subfolder.

Source: https://developer.ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/internationalization/localization/#using-localizations

The 2 files have to be renamed with the exact name of the plugin, followed the code of the country_language. Example: wired-impact-volunteer-management-fr_FR.po

Useful list of country and language codes: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E13214_01/wli/docs92/xref/xqisocodes.html

Another useful link, to test the date format for the translation: http://sqa.fyicenter.com/Online_Test_Tools/Test_date_PHP_Function.php

• This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by solidaritelocale.

Hi Jonathan,
I tested it with the plugin update and the completed translation, and it works like a charm. Congratulation to you and the Wired Impact dev team!
I’m glad if my idea have been of any help. I like regex, they are soooo powerfull.

Hmmm, I didn’t see this post before, sorry…
I don’t know how to use filters within WP.
As I wrote in the other topic, I modified the function that format the phone number so now it’s displayed in the french format, but I guess the way you suggested is much more elegant!

original code:
$formatted_number = ‘(‘ . substr( $unformatted_number, 0, 3 ) . ‘) ‘. substr( $unformatted_number, 3, 3 ) . ‘-‘ . substr( $unformatted_number, 6 );

my attempt:
$formatted_number = substr( $unformatted_number, 0, 2 ) . ‘ ‘ . substr( $unformatted_number, 2, 2 ) . ‘ ‘ . substr( $unformatted_number, 4, 2 ) . ‘ ‘ . substr( $unformatted_number, 6, 2 ) . ‘ ‘ . substr( $unformatted_number, 8 );

A loop would be cleaner, and a regex even more!

Hi Jonathan,

I’ve tried some new things:

– changing the date format in the translation
=> the date & time is displayed in the right order for french readers, but days and months names are still in english

– changing the locale and using strftime() rather than date()
=> the date & time are french-fliendly, at last!
==>> small problem : the “format string” used by stfrtime() is different from the one from date(), so the format strings in the translation have to be modified accordingly. (using % sign)
==>> other problem : I don’t know where to define the locale globally, so for now my way of doing it is quite dirty for now…

– the datepicker won’t work at all, even with a clean install of your plugin: like I wrote in my first post, the date chosen with the datepicker is put in the form, but is disappear when I save the page.

– I managed to display the phone number in the french standard, but one agin it’s hardcoded and dirty… maybe the phone format could be in the translation too, using regex, but I don’t have the knowledge to do that!

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examples:

strftime instead of date:
setlocale(LC_TIME, ‘fr’,’fr_FR’,’fr_FR.utf8′,’fra’);
// $opp_time = date( __( ‘D, F d, Y g:i a’, ‘wired-impact-volunteer-management’ ), $start_date_time);
$opp_time = strftime(“%A %d %B %Y %H:%M”, $start_date_time);

phone number format:
// $formatted_number = ‘(‘ . substr( $unformatted_number, 0, 3 ) . ‘) ‘. substr( $unformatted_number, 3, 3 ) . ‘-‘ . substr( $unformatted_number, 6 );
$formatted_number = substr( $unformatted_number, 0, 2 ) . ‘ ‘ . substr( $unformatted_number, 2, 2 ) . ‘ ‘ . substr( $unformatted_number, 4, 2 ) . ‘ ‘ . substr( $unformatted_number, 6, 2 ) . ‘ ‘ . substr( $unformatted_number, 8 );

It’s good to know that you are working on it !

I got almost the same issue with the phone number format. The french format is quite different, so when the plugin applies the US format on it, it becomes difficult to read for french people.
Even when I enter only numbers (ex: 0123456789) it transforms it into (012) 345-6789.

Could you point me the file where I can change that ?
Is the format applied only when the number is displayed, or is it written with this format in the database ?

Note : If there is a way to change that, it should be adapted in the translation too :
“Please enter your phone number in the format (000) 000-0000.”

Well, I looked at the translation, and this element wasn’t translated yet. So my guess that it should use the WP “read more” was wrong!

I’m working on the french translation now.