Chanding English to English 'text' – language files

are you using wordpress localized in your language? or using wp plugin?

Using wp in your language it should automatically translate EM.

I am using WordPress in English only, not localized. I want to re-write / change some text of WordPress events manager plugin.

Thanks

Try adding a code snippet like this to the functions.php file of your theme:

function my_em_text_rewrites($translation, $orig, $domain) {
	str_replace('old phrase','new phrase', $translation);
	return $translation;
}
add_action ( 'gettext', 'my_em_text_rewrites', 1, 3 );

You’ll need to change old phrase and new phrase to suit your phrases.

Hello,

Thank you for the code, do I have to add this code multiple times to translate multiple phrases?

The language files (.mo / .po ) won’t work then?

Thank you very much.

Yes, you’d need to do that for each phrase. The mo / .po files are intended for full translations from one language to another.

Hi!

This is not working, I tried,

function my_em_text_rewrites($translation, $orig, $domain) {
	str_replace('Events I'm Attending','Events I've Applied For', $translation);
	return $translation;
}
add_action ( 'gettext', 'my_em_text_rewrites', 1, 3 );

Nothing changed I can still see – Events I’m Attending. I have cleared all cache to make sure I was not seeing cached version.

That’s because you have an apostrophe in the phrase you’re using, which will break the code.

Try this version (with double quotes around the phrases):

function my_em_text_rewrites($translation, $orig, $domain) {
	str_replace("Events I'm Attending","Events I've Applied For", $translation);
	return $translation;
}
add_action ( 'gettext', 'my_em_text_rewrites', 1, 3 );

Hello again!

I tried this new code as well. No, it didn’t work either.

Sorry, can you suggest me something else?

Thank you for the help.

Where are you placing the code? Which page is it not working on?

I am placing the code in functions.php in the child theme, the parent theme I use is BuddyBoss.

This didn’t work for any page, I mean the phrase ‘Events I’m Attending’ remained same throughout all locations.

Thanks

Can you tell us a specific page where it didn’t work? That’ll allow to do a test here. Thanks.

Hi!

Here are a few screen shorts to explain what’s happening –

Code saved in functions.php – https://www.dropbox.com/s/b6kpx019hpy33zd/sc1.jpg

File transferred to server – https://www.dropbox.com/s/96pxgiqay78orpg/sc2.jpg

After the transfer, the phrase is still there in the admin bar (No changes) – https://www.dropbox.com/s/gnicu550za6nedp/sc3.jpg

Phrase in the events manager’s my profile page – https://www.dropbox.com/s/rrnqgjof8weftpm/sc4.jpg

I hope the screen shorts explain

Thank you very much for the help

on this screenshot – https://www.dropbox.com/s/b6kpx019hpy33zd/sc1.jpg – did you try to change priority level to 100 instead 1 ?

Hi!

I now tried with priority level 100 but no, it didn’t work.

/*Events manager translations*/

function my_em_text_rewrites($translation, $orig, $domain) {
	str_replace("Events I'm Attending","Events I've Applied For", $translation);
	return $translation;
}
add_action ( 'gettext', 'my_em_text_rewrites', 100, 3 );

Is there any other way to do some little changes?

Thank you.

Actually, it looks like there’s a much easier way ??

You need to edit the template at /events-manager/buddypress/screens/attending.php – you’ll see the phrase in the file.

To make sure the edit you make to the file isn’t lost when upgrading the plugin, make sure you edit a copy of the template as described here:
https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/using-template-files/