Hello guys,
I’m sure you all are annoyed of all these change language questions. But I didn’t find the solution and English is not my mothers tongue … so I need support finally.
Our wpforo version: 1.5.4
Active Theme: Classic
I tried to change the wpforo language to German. As I understood it should be done with a few simple steps:
- Use the wpforo.pot file to translate/generate the wpforo-de_DE.mo and wpforo-de_DE.po files
- Upload these two new files to wpforo/wpf-languages
- Change the language of the wordpress site in “Settings”->”General”
But it doesn’t work.
What have I done?
First I used a translation which I found in your forum. Because it was from July, I added the missing rows at the end of the .po files with the rows of the original .po file from our server. (I used notepad++)
I didn’t wonder that this was not the solution…
So I did it like the manual:
I used Poedit and have opened the wpforo.pot file. I translated only a few phrases which I know that I will find these phrases at the front end.
After I created the .po and .mo file, I uploaded all three files (.pot, .po and .mo) to our fileserver. The names are all like the originals according to your manual. Then I change the wordpress language to English and back to German again and I deleted the cache of the forum (“delete all caches” – somewhere I have read that this will help).
But I don’t see any translation of the forum.
What is the problem?
Did I make something wrong?
I there a possibility to change the language at another place? (not only at “Settings”-“General” of the wordpress site)
I hope you can help me, I’m really desperate.
Greetings
Forronix
Hi @forronix,
Please follow to the instruction below:
- First of all if you see even one translated phrase it means the translation works, you just need make sure all phrases are translated. Are you see it's not translated?
- Second please change your WordPress language to English, then change it back to German then delete all caches.
- Also please deactivate wpForo and activate it again.
- I'm sure this is a cache issue, sometimes WordPress doesn't recognize that a plugin has current language translation file.
In my case (Polish) it was a truth – not all phrases were translated. I found higher developed .mo/.po file and it is much more completed (though not all phrases are with "current" status). I’m really happy
Hi @Robert
Long time no see. But the last days I got more time to try it again.
Unfortunately I didn’t find the solution yet. I have tried it as you described it.
There are no translations in our forum.
Normally I would try another way like the xml translation, but this will not solve the problem of the forum.
Is there a possibility to see which language .po file is loaded by wpforo?
Or can I force wpforo to use another language .po file by adding a code in the source code? (but this should be not the final solution)
I am frustrated. It looks so easy and it doesn’t work.
We also have got the following plug ins:
- wpForo - User Custom Fields
- wpForo Advanced Attachments
- wpForo Embeds
- wpForo Polls
Do we have to mind something regarding the plug ins?
Something is irregular on your website. wpForo doesn't have such issue. I recommend install the plugin called Loco Translate.
You must be right.
I still can't translate it with Loco, but maybe it will help to solve the problem.
Loco seems to be a good plug in. I translated parts of another plugin and it works.
I recognized that there is a “sync”-fault with wpforo and its translation. I know this is not your plugin, but maybe you’ve got some experience:
After looking at the file info of the wpforo translation in Loco (“Plugins/wpForo/wpforo-de_DE.po” <- title in dashboard), there is following error Message:
Out of sync with template
PO file has different source strings to "wpforo.pot". Try running Sync before making any changes.
(Yes, I have tried the sync.)
Did you have seen something like this before?
I will also search for the fault and contact the developer of this plugin.
If I got the solution, then I will write you here again… maybe it can help someone else.