Hi @heatherbodlak
The comment forms strings should change automatically once you’ve set your WordPress language. Go to Settings > General > Site Language to set that.
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hbee
(@heatherbodlak)
Yes, that’s true! And that is what has happened. I have “Deja un Comentario” but I would like to change that to “Envíe su Pésame”….
And simply cannot find where that can be edited…
Perhaps I will have to edit the actual translation file?
Give https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/ and see how you come along. I haven’t translated this before. I’d imagine you’d need to look at the WordPress translation and not the theme translation from within Loco Translate.
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hbee
(@heatherbodlak)
I’ll do that now! thanks so much.
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hbee
(@heatherbodlak)
Do you think this will run into conflicts with WPML that I have installed?
I’m not sure 🙂 WPML has their own way to translate strings so it might be best done via WPML. Perhaps ask their support team if they can advise.
Loco Translate will give you a single translation for the string if it can find it. So my guess is that you’d need to locate the string with WPML so you can set your various translations for the languages being used.
The strings that fall under the Vantage translation, which should be done via WPML can be seen here:
https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/vantage/1.4.4/comments.php
Example:
<div class="nav-next"><?php next_comments_link( __( 'Newer Comments →', 'vantage' ) ); ?></div>
Sounds like steps to translate a string like this would be:
=> Go to WPML => Theme and plugins localization
=> Make sure that “Translate by WPML.” is active
=> Scroll down to “Strings in the theme” and click on “Scan the theme for strings”
=> Once you followed the above steps go under “WPML -> String Translation”. All strings available for translation should display in the table you see there.
Ref: https://wpml.org/forums/topic/how-to-translate-comments-section/
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hbee
(@heatherbodlak)
Thanks again. I actually found the english text in template-tags.php
$comments_link = ‘<span class=”comments-link”>‘ . get_comments_number_text( ‘Leave a comment’ ) . ‘</span>’;
but that line (Leave a comment) doesn’t show up as a string….
A reminder not to edit any themes files. All WordPress themes completely overwrite during theme updates. A child theme should be used if you want to edit a theme file. A function within template-tags.php can’t be edited by making a copy of the file and inserting it into the child theme, it’s a bit more complicated than that. Ideally, stick to regular translation methods.
