Translation: Bug report.

Hi Thobie,

As checked from your site’s source code, it looks like you’re using Sydney child theme that is developed by someone else (not by us). Can you let me know how your child theme overrides the main theme’s files? Are the strings are translation-ready.

Hello, Kharis,

?Can you let me know how your child theme overrides the main theme’s files?“

I don’t know what that means that the child theme overrides the main theme’s files?

?Are the strings are translation-ready.“

And I also dont’t know what that means.

Regards

Thobie

Sorry for being unclear.

?Can you let me know how your child theme overrides the main theme’s files?“

A child theme’s code can make particular code in the main theme not functioning for replacement. In your case, if you lose translation control for particular text from main theme’s, may be your child theme replaces the respective code where it should be translatable by default.

Please take a look into your child theme’s code and check whether it has particular text that is shown in the front end or not.

Are the strings are translation-ready.

If you’ve added some text hard coded from child theme, to make it translatable, you have to follow special rules as mentioned in this section.

Hello, Kharis,

I use a child theme of sydney, sydney-child-theme. Created by the plugin Orbisius Child Theme Creator.

I have created a folder ?sydney-child-theme“ in the folder ?themes“. In this folder I have created a folder ?languages“. And in this folder I have copied the translated files:

de_DE.mo
de_DE.po
de_DE_formal.mo
de_DE_formal.po
sydney.pot

I also have copied the files:

extras.php
template-tags.php

from the parent theme into the new created folder ?inc“ in the folder ?sydney-child-theme“ because they are not existing in the child theme.

And I have inserted the following php code into the functions.php of the child theme:

/**
 * Loads the child theme textdomain.
 */
function sydney_child_theme_setup() {
    load_child_theme_textdomain( 'sydney', get_stylesheet_directory() . '/languages' );
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'sydney_child_theme_setup' );

One example: The string ?By“ (the author) cannot be translated in the language files because it doesn’t exist in this files. But it exists in the file extras.php. If translated in this file of the child theme to german ?Von“ it will be correctly shown in the frontend. But yesterday I have upgraded the parent theme to a newer version and now the translation has been disappeard and ?By“ appears once again in the frontend.

That means the WordPress system doesn’t access the files of the child theme but the files of the parent theme?

Hi,

Thank you for getting back along with additional information.

Please check your child theme’s template-tags.php file and check whether it has this code block (below) or not.

if ( ! function_exists( 'sydney_entry_comments' ) ) :
	function sydney_entry_comments() {
		if ( ! post_password_required() && ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) ) {
			echo '<span class="comments-link">';
			comments_popup_link( esc_html__( '0 comments', 'sydney' ), esc_html__( '1 comment', 'sydney' ), esc_html__( '% comments', 'sydney' ) );
			echo '</span>';
		}		
	}
endif;

If not, try replicating it and run your test.

Hello, Kharis,

the template-tags.php of the child theme has the following php code with the german translation of three english words:

if ( ! function_exists( 'sydney_entry_comments' ) ) :
	function sydney_entry_comments() {
		if ( ! post_password_required() && ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) ) {
			echo '<span class="comments-link">';
			comments_popup_link( esc_html__( '0 Kommentare', 'sydney' ), esc_html__( '1 Kommentar', 'sydney' ), esc_html__( '% Kommentare', 'sydney' ) );
			echo '</span>';
		}		
	}
endif;

Hello, Kharis,

since I’ve been waiting for an answer from you for four days, but it hasn’t come, I assume that this is a bug in the theme, can’t be fixed and I have to live with it. Too bad. The theme is otherwise very good, only this small error clouds the whole thing but something.

Regards

Thobie