{"id":476,"date":"2024-01-23T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/?p=476"},"modified":"2024-02-09T15:06:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T15:06:07","slug":"how-to-translate-wordpress-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/how-to-translate-wordpress-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"How to translate Travelify and Pinbin WordPress themes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are over 6800 spoken languages worldwide and currently, our Travelify theme uses one &#8211; English is translated in English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Hebrew, Slovak, Turkish, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Finnish and Chinese. However, this theme is built so that you can easily translate it. We have already added default &#8220;.pot&#8221; WordPress language files and you can start WordPress theme translation from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please note!<\/strong> This tutorial will apply to most WordPress themes that are translation-ready and not just, Sparkling, Dazzling,\u00a0<a title=\"Travelify \u2013 Awesome &amp; Responsive Travel WordPress Theme\" href=\"https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/themes\/travelify\/\">Travelify<\/a>\u00a0or <a title=\"Pinbin \u2013 Beautiful &amp; Responsive WordPress Theme\" href=\"https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/themes\/pinbin\/\">Pinbin<\/a> so feel free to read further even if you are not using our themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-before-you-start-important\">Before you start (Important)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This guide can still be used to translate any <a href=\"https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/popular-wordpress-themes\/\">WordPress theme<\/a>, however, there is now an option to translate them directly using&nbsp;GlotPress. For more information on how to proceed, please <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/handbook\/tools\/glotpress-translate-wordpress-org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">read this guide<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-to-translate-wordpress-theme\">How to translate WordPress Theme?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please read a chapter above this before you proceed with the &#8220;old&#8221; method of translating themes.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> First of all you will need to <a href=\"https:\/\/poedit.net\/download\">download .PO\/.pot file editor like Poedit<\/a>\u00a0or other. It is possible to use any text editor but it will be so much easier to use Poedit than regular text edit so I strongly recommend downloading it. It&#8217;s free, works on Mac, Windows and Linux and there is no reason not to use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"860\" src=\"\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/wordpress-theme-translation-poedit.jpg\" alt=\"Translate theme using Poedit\" class=\"wp-image-14095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/wordpress-theme-translation-poedit.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/wordpress-theme-translation-poedit-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Second thing is to open default language files form your theme. In Travelify case it is located in languages folder inside theme folder. This file is called travelify.po. You should use this default file for translation but you need to create a new file when you are done. Most themes has the same structure and language files should be somewhere inside theme folder. There is chance that your theme is not ready for translation so it might take time to modify. If you are not developer it might be a pain to create translation support for theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"691\" src=\"\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/travelify-theme-translation.jpg\" alt=\"Theme .pot file for translation\" class=\"wp-image-14096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/travelify-theme-translation.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/travelify-theme-translation-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Now in the Poedit click on original text one by one and write your translation underneath. Just like you can see iu the screenshot below. It will take some time to get through all of them so be patient. If you think that some translations you won&#8217;t need you can leave them as they are in the original language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"860\" src=\"\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/poedit-translation.jpg\" alt=\"Poedit string translation\" class=\"wp-image-14097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/poedit-translation.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/poedit-translation-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> <strong>Now the most important part.<\/strong> When you are saving your file in theme language folder you should use proper language code. For instance if you have translated WordPress theme to German you should use &#8220;de_DE.po&#8221; as file name and &#8220;fr_FR.po&#8221; for French. This will make sure that WordPress understands what language you are referring to. For other languages codes <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/teams\/\">please see this documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-note\">Note:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Default language file extension is <code>.pot<\/code> (travelify.pot, sparkling.pot, dazzling.pot etc) but you have to use <code>.po<\/code> to make your translation work. Also Poedit application will create <code>.mo<\/code> and it needs to be included in languages folder as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"691\" src=\"\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/wordpress-translation-file-name.jpg\" alt=\"Proper translation file naming\" class=\"wp-image-14099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/wordpress-translation-file-name.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/wordpress-translation-file-name-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> Now WordPress will use theme language the same as your WordPress language. If your WordPress dashboard uses French, don&#8217;t expect for theme to show German. Changing WordPress language will automatically change theme language if it is available in the theme language folder under proper name we discussed in Step 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> Changing WordPress language is as easy as adding<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">define ('WPLANG', 'fr_FR');<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>to the <code>wp-config.php<\/code> file located at your WordPress installation root folder. You can download WP language files or entire WordPress installation in<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/polyglots\/teams\/\"> your language from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> As of WordPress 6.0 you can now choose WordPress language when installing it. Afterwards you will get a new option under Settings &#8211; General where you can switch to any language. See screenshot below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/wordpress-language-switcher.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Language switcher\" class=\"wp-image-14098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/wordpress-language-switcher.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/wordpress-language-switcher-300x108.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you installed WordPress before WordPress 4.0 become available you will still have to define language via <code>wp-config.php<\/code> but afterward you will get a notification in your WordPress dashboard that it is no longer required to define language via configurations file but you have to initialize it once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have translated\u00a0<a title=\"Travelify \u2013 Awesome &amp; Responsive Travel WordPress Theme\" href=\"https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/themes\/travelify\/\">Travelify<\/a>, <a title=\"Pinbin \u2013 Beautiful &amp; Responsive WordPress Theme\" href=\"https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/themes\/pinbin\/\">Pinbin<\/a> or <a title=\"Best Free WordPress Themes\" href=\"https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/themes\/\">other our WordPress themes<\/a> you can send me &#8220;.po&#8221; language files and I will add them to the default theme installation. I will feature your name on the theme itself as well as I will give credit on this website. I appreciate your support and will say a proper thank you! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions regarding WordPress theme translation or any questions related to our WordPress themes please don&#8217;t hesitate and leave your questions in the comments below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-update-1\">Update (1):<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be appreciated if you could contribute to improving our themes! <a title=\"Our contributors!\" href=\"https:\/\/colorlib.com\/wp\/contributors\/\"><b>We have created a special page for our contributors!<\/b><\/a>. 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