I just got my hands on a WordPress site and i'm trying to edit some words from a theme login template, so I went to cPanel to check how the theme templates handle the copy and I found the pt_PT.po
with the words I was looking for.
After understanding a bit better how .po
and .mo
files work, I installed LOCO translations plugin to edit those files and I found the phrases I was looking for, edited and saved them.
I went back to cPanel and the .po
file was changed with the copy I wanted, but there were no changes to the site, even after cleaning the cache. .mo
file was also changed because had the same "last modified" timestamp.
I read in other answers that adding define('WPLANG', 'your_language');
to the wp-config.php
would do the trick, but since this site already has the translations from English to Portuguese online it didn't make sense to me to add that line.
I'm I wrong and I still need to add it or is it something else?
Thanks!
I just got my hands on a WordPress site and i'm trying to edit some words from a theme login template, so I went to cPanel to check how the theme templates handle the copy and I found the pt_PT.po
with the words I was looking for.
After understanding a bit better how .po
and .mo
files work, I installed LOCO translations plugin to edit those files and I found the phrases I was looking for, edited and saved them.
I went back to cPanel and the .po
file was changed with the copy I wanted, but there were no changes to the site, even after cleaning the cache. .mo
file was also changed because had the same "last modified" timestamp.
I read in other answers that adding define('WPLANG', 'your_language');
to the wp-config.php
would do the trick, but since this site already has the translations from English to Portuguese online it didn't make sense to me to add that line.
I'm I wrong and I still need to add it or is it something else?
Thanks!
Share Improve this question asked Oct 23, 2018 at 22:53 RyuuksRyuuks 1253 bronze badges 2 |1 Answer
Reset to default 1i had a similar question posted some time ago: why is translation not working on theme?
it might be the solution to put your translation files into the right location (languages directory in wp-content/languages/themes/
) and prefix them with the theme name like themename-pt_PT.po
WPLANG
. – Sally CJ Commented Oct 24, 2018 at 0:04