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Child theme translation file file not working

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mabellek

Participant

July 31, 2016 at 21:43

Hi

I am trying to translate the woopress child theme using loco translate.

the translaation files are under themes/woopress-child/languages as recomended in your documentation

Hi have translated some of the strings in the header but the translations are not taking effect.
strings translated
cart/ cart subtotal/ logout/ my account
please assist in why they are not taking effect

Please, contact administrator
for this information.

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7 Answers

Robert Hall

Support staff

August 1, 2016 at 12:45

Hello,

Our theme is not compatible with this plugin.

In this case we recommend you to translate theme via POedit or WPML plugin as described in our documentation:
https://www.8theme.com/demo/docs/woopress/index.html#!/2_how_to_translate

Regards,
Robert Hall

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mabellek

Participant

August 1, 2016 at 13:24

Hi

I have deactivated and deleted loco-translate
opened default.po file from theme package
opened in po-edit
fixed language to hebrew
translated the strings mentioned above
cart/ cart subtotal/ logout/ my account
saved changes
saved as default-he_IL.po & default-he_IL.mo
uploaded to themes/woopress-child/languages

still no results

please help

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Jack Richardson

Support staff

August 1, 2016 at 14:19

Hello,

You need to place theme translated files into the wp-content/themes/woopress/languages folder not to your child theme directory.
Copy default.po translated file, translate in using POEdit, save as he_IL.po (it will generate both a .po and .mo files for your translation) and upload these files (.po and .mo) to the directory mentioned above.
Next edit wp-config.php located in the root folder of WordPress and use the $locale with prefix with your language name which should be similar to the translation file name, in your case it’s $locale='he_IL';

Best regards,
Jack Richardson.

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mabellek

Participant

August 1, 2016 at 14:25

Hi

with this solution what will happen everytime I update the theme ?

And also will the wp-config.php change when I update wordpress ?
thanks

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Jack Richardson

Support staff

August 1, 2016 at 14:37

Hello,

You won’t lose your translation after theme update as your translation files are renamed as he_IL.po and he_IL.mo.

And also will the wp-config.php change when I update wordpress ?

Don’t worry as WordPress update won’t affect your wp-config.php file.

Best regards,
Jack Richardson.

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mabellek

Participant

August 1, 2016 at 20:24

Hi

Usually the way I update the theme is by deleting the woopress theme (parent theme) and the uploading the new theme and activating the chid theme again. In this case I would lose the he_IL files wouldnt I ?
Could you recommend a better practise ?

Thanks

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Robert Hall

Support staff

August 2, 2016 at 07:30

Hello,

Here is video tutorial how to update theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdWESIIPU1k
(it’s for Legenda theme but the process is the same).

Before update delete “woocommerce” folder in the directory wp-content/themes/woopress/ and it’ll be reuploaded from a new theme package.

Regards,
Robert Hall

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