slramela

To further elaborate, I am talking about searching for addresses in wordpress’s post editor view.

I could not find a way to force the language that is shown, which would be sufficient in this use case.

Yea, it is weird. It is like the ′_n()′ function just refuses to load the string.

Hopefully I or my client won’t bumb into too many of those…

I overcame this with the ′do_shortcode_tag′ filter and ′str_replace′ but it is such a hack.

By the way, for that specific spot in the emailpetition.php, the best Finnish translation for ‘signatures’ is ‘allekirjoitusta’. Problematically in other contexts the word ‘allekirjoitus’ will have a different modifier applied to it and that one won’t apply.

I don’t know what you can do about that, though. Finnish is a pain in the ass to translate into.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by slramela.

@123host I will make that change. However there are problems with the translation, for some reason. This code does not produce a translation :

_n( 'signature', 'signatures', $petition->signatures, 'speakout' )

It just prints ‘signatures’, even though the translation is present in the .po file. I even recompiled the .mo file form the .po file and that did not help.

The translation is on lines 295-296 of the .po file.

I managed to fix the problem for myself and force the right language file to be loaded by putting this into my functions.php file:

$text_domain = 'speakout'; 
$override_language_file = ABSPATH . 'wp-content' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'plugins' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'speakout' .  DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'languages' .  DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'speakout-fi.mo'; 
// Unload the translation for the text domain of the plugin
unload_textdomain($text_domain);
// Load the override file
load_textdomain($text_domain, $override_language_file );

BTW, @tobifjellner I looked at the translate.wordpress project and most of the strings there seem to be from readme.txt file, is that normal?

Sadly, renaming the file did not help.

I also tried copying the translation file to /wp-content/languages/plugins/ and that did not help either, regardless of whether I edited the load_plugin_textdomain function call to point to that folder or not.

But that is just me taking shots in the dark.

So do you happen to know any easy way of manually translating the strings without having them overwritten whenever the plugin updates?

No, it has not.

I’ve tried copying the language files to WP’s language folder (where a language file for Akismet was, for some reason), installing various multilingual plugins, switching the site language back and forth from fi_FI to en_Us and back.

I also tried installing it to other Finnish language WP sites and a Swedish language site and the translations did not work in any of them.

https://www.elaintenviikko.fi/

Filenames are

speakout-fi_FI.mo
speakout-fi_FI.po

For me, rolling back to 4.7 does not fix the issue on Windows + Firefox