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wpForo 1.x.x [Solved] Change language with .po files doesn't work

Forronix · 2018-10-21T11:12:29Z

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: 1.5.4Active Theme: ClassicI 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 filesUpload these two new files to wpforo/wpf-languagesChange 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.GreetingsForronix troubleshooting-language-fileserver.png

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Sofy

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Nov 13, 2018 12:52 pm

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Hi Forronix,

Did you have seen something like this before?

No, I've never faced with such a problem.

If I got the solution, then I will write you here again

Please let us know if you got some news.

In case you want to say thank you 😊

We'd really appreciate and be thankful if you leave a good review on plugin page. This is the best way to say thank you to this project and support team.

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Forronix

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Dec 26, 2018 9:57 am

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Merry Christmas Guys,

I was able to solve the problem, but I don’t know the root cause.
Finally something was wrong with the po-file.
It has accepted the translation after I delete the files via Loco Translate. So I generate a new translation and selected the Wordpress German Language. After this it works now.

Maybe the file was already faulty before installing Loco or Loco installed something faulty.

But at this point I’m happy that it is working now.

Greetings

Forronix

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Robert

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Dec 26, 2018 10:20 am

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Merry Christmas Forronix,

Yes, Loco does some strange cache of PO/MO files in /languages/ directory of /wp-content/. Sometimes you need totally remove the plugin po/mo files from that /wp-content/languages/plugins/ directory to reset the translation cache.

In case you want to say thank you !)
We'd really appreciate and be thankful if you leave a good review on plugin page. This is the best way to say thank you to this project and support team.

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