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Can’t translate my site through a Child theme

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wplanters
11 years ago · Last reply by Andrew Misplon 11 years ago

Hi, I have followed this thread: https://siteorigin.com/thread/translate-posted-on-and-posted-in/ But I hadnt have succes:. this is my style.css:

/*
 Theme Name:   Vantage Premium
 Author:       SiteOrgin
 Template:     vantage
 Version:      1.0.0
*/
@import url("../vantage/style.css");

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And this is my functions.php:

<?
// Make the theme translatable
function portal_child_set_text_domain(){
load_theme_textdomain( 'vantage', get_stylesheet_directory() . '/languages' );
}
add_action('after_setup_theme', 'portal_child_set_text_domain', 15);

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This is an extract of my wp-config file:

define('WPLANG', 'es_MX');

This is how my ftp looks:

http://screencast.com/t/6TGd6hRda

The result is that my page changes the main menu configuration , the footer dissapaears, the blog is displayed in a full width, and the most important of all it is not translated to spanish.

This is my site with the parent theme: t.com/t/sooD2fsr8Am
This is mys ite with the child theme: encast.com/t/83MW7Mse

This is how my theme module looks in WordPress: http://screencast.com/t/gUbco0opHhP

Wel I think thats all the information I have until now, hope it helps you to discover what is going on.

Thanks in advance for your support!

Have a nice day!

Francisco

URL: http://www.shooxsantini.com

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  1. wplanters 11 years, 10 months ago

    Corrections:

    This is my site with the child theme: http://screencast.com/t/83MW7Mse

  2. wplanters 11 years, 10 months ago

    It is also important to mention, that I have already accomplished to translate the site, not thru a child theme but by inserting directly the es_MX.po and es_MX.po directly in the language folder of the parent theme (right here: http://screencast.com/t/OxQT04NIy) , but today I updated to WordPress 4.0 and it seems it broke the translation that I have already made.

  3. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 10 months ago

    Hi wplanters,

    A few small changes needed here. In your child theme the functions.php file should look as follows:

    <?php
// Make the theme translatable
function vantage_child_set_text_domain(){
load_theme_textdomain( 'vantage', get_stylesheet_directory() . '/languages' );
}
add_action('after_setup_theme', 'vantage_child_set_text_domain', 15);

    The function name shouldn’t matter but the functions file does require a complete opening PHP

  4. wplanters 11 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Andrew!

    Thanks for your response! I have already changed my functions.php file but the translation does not work. When I activate the child theme it keeps displaying the theme information in english (take a look: http://screencast.com/t/iwnEc5zDlXQ) and it also modifies some elements like the main menu and footer (but I think that this is because WordPress treat the child theme as a completely new theme so I have to configure those element again, is that correct?)

    It is also important to mention that I have translated some lines of code directly in the editor module (comments.php) http://screencast.com/t/HvVHgT7v6Pf6 but I am afraid that those changes will be override when I updatae the theme. I decided to do this becuase I didn’t find those lines in the vantage.pot file when I created the es_MX.po and es_MX.mo file in the POedit.

    Thanks for your support!

    Have a nice day!

  5. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 10 months ago

    That’s correct, when you activate a child them you do need to redo the Customizer and menu assignments.

    Please could you send through your child theme, zipped, to [email protected] and I’ll take a look ASAP. Thanks.

  6. wplanters 11 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Andrew,

    I have already sent my child theme zipped please let me know if you find any clue.

    Thanks in advance.

    Francisco

  7. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks, I’ll grab that ASAP and take a look.

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