Translations

Overview

Wovie is written in English and includes a Spanish translation. WordPress shows it in the language of your site, set in Settings › General › Site Language.

Your site combines texts from three sources:

The texts you write yourself, such as your menus, the footer subtitle or the copyright, are shown as you write them.

Languages included

• English, the language of the theme.
• Spanish (es_ES), in neutral Spanish.

Wovie uses the Spanish translation when the language of your site is Español (es_ES). Other variants of Spanish, such as Español de México (es_MX) or Español de Argentina (es_AR), do not use it on their own, and Wovie shows in English. To use the Spanish translation with your variant:

1. Copy wp-content/themes/wovie/languages/es_ES.mo.
2. Rename the copy with the code of your language, such as wovie-es_MX.mo.
3. Upload it to wp-content/languages/themes/.

Do the same with Dbmovies: copy wp-content/plugins/dbmovies/languages/dbmovies-es_ES.mo as dbmovies-es_MX.mo into wp-content/languages/plugins/.

You find the code of your language in the WordPress list of languages, such as fr_FR for French or pt_BR for Portuguese of Brazil.

Translating Wovie to another language

The translation lives in a .mo file named wovie- and the code of the language, such as wovie-fr_FR.mo. Keep it in wp-content/languages/themes/, not inside the folder of Wovie: updates replace the whole folder of the theme.

With the Loco Translate plugin:

1. Install and activate Loco Translate.
2. Go to Loco Translate › Themes › Wovie and click New language.
3. Choose your language, and as the location, the Custom or System folder, never the folder of the theme.
4. Translate the texts and save.

With Poedit:

1. Open wp-content/themes/wovie/languages/wovie.pot in Poedit and create a new translation for your language.
2. Translate the texts and save it as wovie-fr_FR.po, with the code of your language. Poedit also saves the .mo.
3. Upload wovie-fr_FR.mo to wp-content/languages/themes/.

Translate Dbmovies the same way, so its messages are in your language too.

Sharing your translation

If you translated Wovie to a language it does not include, you can share it with us, so other sites can use it too:

1. Put your .po and .mo files in a .zip file.
2. Sign in to your Doothemes account and open a ticket.
3. Tell us the language and attach the .zip.

We review the translations we receive and may include them in a future version of Wovie.

Changing a text

To change a text in a language that Wovie includes, such as one Spanish phrase:

1. Copy es_ES.po from wp-content/themes/wovie/languages/ and open it in Poedit, or edit Wovie in Loco Translate.
2. Change the texts you want and save.
3. Upload the result as wovie-es_ES.mo to wp-content/languages/themes/.

Your file replaces the Spanish translation of Wovie completely, so keep all its texts, not only the ones you changed.

Object cache

If your site uses a persistent object cache, such as Redis or Memcached, WordPress remembers which translation files exist. After you add a new translation file, clear that cache from your cache plugin or your hosting panel, or WordPress keeps using the previous one.

Right-to-left languages

Wovie does not include a right-to-left layout. With a language such as Arabic or Hebrew, the texts are translated but the layout stays left to right.

Troubleshooting