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Concerns with theme upgrades and translations

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Jérémy Dulout
10 years ago · Last reply by Daniel 10 years ago

Hello,
I’m quite new in blogging and I am wondering of theme ugrades.
I don’t work with a local copy of my website (maybe it is a huge mistake…) so when I do some translations of your theme in french, I go directly to the wordpress and I change some sentences in the php files. And when I do something wrong, I take the official theme zip file and I send the initial php file with a ftp manager.
So, what is the best solution to translate your theme and to be sure that it will not be erased in a future upgrade? And is it a bad idea to not have a local copy of my website?
By the way, thank you for your theme and the forum. I often see and learn a lot in this forum.

Have a nice day,

Jérémy

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  1. Daniel Staff 10 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Jérémy

    Thank you for your kind words.

    As a rule of thumb, it is always great to have a backup of the complete site so that you have something to roll back to if anything goes wrong. Therefore I recommend you have a local copy of your website :)

    It is not advisable to make changes to core files of the theme instead you should use a child theme. Here is a guide on how to create one

    Link: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

    You can use the following plugin to do your translations : https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/

    I hope that answers all your queries. If not please let me know

  2. Jérémy Dulout 10 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks a lot for your reply, I will try these things as soon as possible.

  3. Daniel Staff 10 years, 10 months ago

    Perfect :-)

    Always feel free to open a new thread whenever you require support

    Cheers

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