Theme translation not working

1. How do I manually translate a WordPress theme?
2. Why does Loco translate not work?
3. What is the folder name for the translations included in a theme?
4. How do I change the translation on WordPress?
5. What is translation ready theme?
6. What is PO and MO files?
7. How do you use loco in English?
8. How do I translate WooCommerce with Loco?
9. How do I localize my wordpress theme?
10. How do you change the language on a theme?
11. How does Magento 2 translation work?
12. How do I override i18n in Magento 2?

How do I manually translate a WordPress theme?

Open Poedit and select Create new translation:

1. A new window will pop up, select WordPress theme you want to translate. ...
2. Next, from a dropdown menu select a language you want to translate your theme to:
3. You are ready to translate your theme now. ...
4. In the Translation section enter a desired translation of the source string:

Why does Loco translate not work?

Your translation files are not being loaded

Themes and plugins have to load their own translation files and Loco Translate cannot force them to. Check that themes are calling the "load_theme_textdomain" function, and plugins are calling "load_plugin_textdomain" . If they're not then ask the author nicely to fix it.

What is the folder name for the translations included in a theme?

Adding translations to WordPress

Keep in mind that your MO files names are important. All of them go into your theme's folder (/wp-content/languages/themes/) or plugin's folder (/wp-content/languages/plugins/) and their names indicate which language they correspond to.

How do I change the translation on WordPress?

Translating Your Website Content

To translate your website, you can simply click on the 'Translate Site' tab on plugin's settings page or the button in your WordPress admin bar. This will open the live translation editor in a new browser tab.

What is translation ready theme?

The term 'translation-ready' means that the WP theme supports multi languages. Usually, it includes a subfolder (with name 'langs' or 'languages') with language files. ... In this way, you 'tell' the WordPress that language of your site is Bulgarian.

What is PO and MO files?

MO – Machine Object.

The MO file includes the exact same contents as PO file. The two files differ in their format. While a PO file is a text file and is easy for humans to read, MO files are compiled and are easy for computers to read. Your web server will use the MO file to display the translations.

How do you use loco in English?

Just click on the Loco translate label on the bottom left of your Dashboard to start. You will see the active theme and the list of installed plugins. Click on the plugin you want to translate. On the next page, click New language and choose a language to translate your plugin to from a dropdown list.

How do I translate WooCommerce with Loco?

Creating custom translations

1. Download the free plugin called Loco Translate from here. ...
2. Install and Activate.
3. Go to the new Loco Translate menu item created in your Dashboard with five sub-sections.
4. Go to the Plugins section, and select WooCommerce:
5. Add new languages using the Add New Language link:

How do I localize my wordpress theme?

In order to prep your theme for localization, you need to include the following function in your theme's functions. php file. Change “yourtheme” to the name of your theme and “templatepath” to the location in your themes folder where you want to save your translation files.

How do you change the language on a theme?

For your published theme, click Actions > Edit languages. Click Change theme language. Click the Language drop-down menu to see all the languages available for the theme. Select the language you want, and then click Save.

How does Magento 2 translation work?

The Magento application enables you to localize your store for multiple regions and markets.
...
To translate names, titles, and phrases used in Magento:

1. Generate a dictionary of your instance using the translation dictionary tool. ...
2. Translate the terms.
3. If desired, package your translations in a language package.

How do I override i18n in Magento 2?

magento2Override i18n language pack

1. <Vendor Namespace> - Here namespace of the vendor custom theme or inbuilt theme namespace I.E. Magento/Luma Here luma is vendor namespace.
2. <language package directory> - Here language package directory like en_us or nl_nl or en_gb.