I have a Wordpress installation in pt-br and I have searched for numerous ways to translate theme, strings but none have worked. Most pick up a theme that is standard in English and I translate it into Portuguese.
I needed to "translate" some strings from the menu Portuguese to English, I got to use wpml but it totally messed up my theme. Does anyone have any simpler ideas on how to translate in the hand?
The default solution in WordPress for translations is Internationalization . You prepare your theme / plugin so that it can receive different translations. Basically, you embrace your% of text% in methods that WP itself provides. From the documentation
$hello = __( 'Hello, dear user!', 'my-text-domain' );
The strings method, in addition to assigning the value Hello, dear user! to the variable, also adds it to the domain my-text-domain . If you need to __() within your code, you use the echo method, as follows:
_e( 'Using this option you will make a fortune!', 'my-text-domain' );
Once you have all your code ready, with _e() inside a domain, you need to generate a strings file that will contain all% internationalized% of your code. When I need to do this, I use EasyPO .
Possessing the .pot file, you can use Poedit to translate all strings and generate a new domain. Then just set the .pot and everything should work. This process makes VERY easier to maintain translations.
I did not find a solution more practical, I changed the strings manually even, according to the? Wordang? lang, follow my solution:
<?php
$mylocale = get_bloginfo('language'); //Pega o lang padrão do tema
if($mylocale == 'pt-BR') { ?>
<p>Palavra em português</p>
<?php }
elseif($mylocale == 'en-US'){ ?>
<p>Palavra em inglês</p>
<?php }
?>