WordPress Thesis Theme is shipped in English language only, but it provides also the strings to translate in a file in PO (GNU Gettext Portable Object) format.
The file is thesis.po and is located in the directory wp-content/themes/thesis of your WordPress installation. The file thesis.mo that you’ll find in the same directory is the same file but in the machine readable format.
To translate the Thesis’s strings in your own language follow these simple steps :
- set your preferred language in the file
wp-config.php: for Italian, for example,define ('WPLANG', 'it_IT');
See these instructions WordPress in Your Language for a complete guide. - rename the
thesis.pofile using your language code (ex for Italian language in will be :it_IT.po) - open the file with the text editor of your choice and translate the strings filling the
msgstrvalue - using the command-line utility
msgfmtto create the machine readable file :msgfmt -o it_IT.mo it_IT.po - copy the files
it_IT.po,it_IT.mointo thewp-content/themes/thesisdirectory
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This doesn’t work for me…
i did what u say, used poedit. but nothing happens. any configuration needed to make this work?
thanks.
Hi, have you created the .mo file and copied it to the Thesis folder ?
Yes i have, both files are in the “wp-content/themes/thesis” folder.
i tried putting it in different folders and nothing, i also tried keeping the original names of the files as thesis, nothing seems to effect the outcome, it’s like it ignores the files…
Any idea?
Thanks
I trasnlated the file thesis.mo, and uploaded it into the same folder. The blog still appears in original english language. ¿? Can anyone help?
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Hi.
Have you set your preferred language in your
wp-config.phpfile ?Yes, define (‘WPLANG’, ‘ca’);
Just the admin area becomes catalan, not the entire blog.
I would like to translate what the users see, phrases such as “[click to continue…]” are still in english…
I’m using Thesis theme.
Can anyone make the translation for me?
Thanks!
Hi.
See WordPress in your language page.
Hi,
Upload the po and mo files (es_ES.po and es_ES.mo) to:
wp-content/themes/thesis_16/lib/languages
It will work
Hi,
thanks for great information of WordPress Thesis Theme translation!
It work.
Hi!
Nice blog! I’m trying to translate my thesis theme but I’m confuse with that part:
4. using the command-line utility msgfmt to create the machine readable file : msgfmt -o it_IT.mo it_IT.po
What is a command-line utility??
Where should I paste the commande?
Thanks!
ps. sorry i’m not familiar with Thesis at all!
Hello everyone!
If you are experimenting some kind of troubles with thesis translation, try :
1) Open the .pot file in the “wp-content/themes/thesis/lib/languages/” folder
2) Save the .pot file as a .po file in the same foder
3) Make your translations in the .po file (you can use poedit software)
4) Save the .po file as a .mo file
that work for me!
Well… the way it worked for me is this.
I installed the wordpress version using the spanish version, so my wp-config.php file my language was already defined this way define (‘WPLANG’, ‘es_ES’);
When i went to wp-content/themes/thesis/lib/languages/ there was a thesis.pot file in there. This are the steps with the scenary i just described.
1. Download Poedit.
2. Download the thesis.pot file
3. Change the thesis.pot file extension to .po
4. Open the thesis.po file in poedit.
5. Do your changes all or just the translations you needed.
6. Save, this will create a .mo file
7. Right now you will have a thesis.po and a thesis.mo file. Change the file names to: es_ES.po and es_ES.mo
8. Move those files to your hosting. Refresh.
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