Home page and options translation

[Lumiere de Lune]

Actually, I thought I had posted it, but the question is : how do I translate the homepage and other options, when I have a multilingual website ? They don’t appear in the string translation page of WPML (which is the most used WP Plugin for multilingual websites)

[Towfiq I.]

Yes I saw that while developing the theme, I followed the instruction that they described in their documentation, but strangely none worked.

You can translate your strings using shortcodes, First add this to your functions.php
http://pastebin.com/5WSeiK33

and then add your shortcodes like this from your theme options page:

[wpml_translate lang="en"]Your English Text Here...[/wpml_translate]

[Aldo]

Hoi,

I’m using mqTranslate to translate.
Is there a possible way to translate the homepage with this?

Kind regards,
Aldo

[Towfiq I.]

you can if they have shortcode support. do they have shortcodes?

[Aldo]

Thnx for the quick response.

I don’t know for mqTranslate, but qTranslate has shortcodes 🙂

example:
[:en] English text [:de] Deutsch text [:off] Text for all languages

PS: Thanks for Asteria

[Towfiq I.]

can you try this shortcode in the “welcome text” field from the theme options page and see if works?

[Aldo]

Found a little problem trying to get all languages after an shortcode.
But found a solution:
<!--:en-->English text<!--:--><!--:de-->Deutsch text<!--:--><!--:hu-->Hungarian text<strong><!--:--></strong>All language text

Source

My “welcome text” field is currently

<!-- Intro -->
[:nl]
<h2>Welkom op de officiële website van Jolien De Gendt</h2>
<p>Kies een andere taal:</p>

[:en]
<h2>[:en]Welcome to the official website of Jolien De Gendt</h2>
<p>Choose a language:</p>

[:fr]
<h2>Bienvenue sur le site officiel de Jolien De Gendt</h2>
<p>Choisissez une langue: </p>

[:ja]
<h2>JolienデGendtの公式サイトへようこそ</h2>
<p>言語の選択：</p>

[:de]
<h2>Willkommen auf der offiziellen Website von Jolien De Gendt</h2>
<p>Wählen Sie eine Sprache:</p>

[:es]
<h2>Bienvenido a la página oficial de Jolien De Gendt </h2>
<p>Elija un idioma: </p>

<!--:-->

<a href="http://www.joliendegendt.be/_preview/nl" title="Nederlands">Nederlands</a> |
<a href="http://www.joliendegendt.be/_preview/fr" title="Français">Français</a> |
<a href="http://www.joliendegendt.be/_preview/en" title="English">English</a> |
<a href="http://www.joliendegendt.be/_preview/de" title="Deutsch">Deutsch</a> |
<a href="http://www.joliendegendt.be/_preview/ja" title="日本語">日本語</a> |
<a href="http://www.joliendegendt.be/_preview/es" title="Español">Español</a> 

[Towfiq I.]

how is this displayed on the frontend?

and can you check if there is “do_shortcode” text in your content-welcome-text.php file?

[Aldo]

English:
Welcome to the official website of Jolien De Gendt

Choose a language:
Nederlands | Français | English | Deutsch | 日本語 | Español

Français
Bienvenue sur le site officiel de Jolien De Gendt

Choisissez une langue:
Nederlands | Français | English | Deutsch | 日本語 | Español

<hr/>

This is the full code of the content-welcome-text.php

<?php global $asteria;?>
<?php $welcome = $asteria['home_sort_id']; if(!empty($welcome['welcome-text'])){ ?>
<!--Text Block START-->
	<?php if ( asteria_is_mobile() && (!empty($asteria['hide_mob_welcm'])) ) { ?>
    <?php }else{ ?>
    <div class="text_block">
    <div class="text_block_wrap"><div class="center"><?php echo do_shortcode($asteria['welcm_textarea_id']); ?></div></div>
    </div>
    <?php } ?>
<!--Text Block END-->
<?php } ?>

There is a do_shortcode on line 7
<?php echo do_shortcode($asteria['welcm_textarea_id']); ?>

PS: Can’t you show a preview of the text you post on this forum?
Or change it afterwards?

[Towfiq I.]

Just checked your site. the Shortcode works great I see..

[Cecilia]

I’ve try to add this http://pastebin.com/5WSeiK33 in functions.php but there is a parse error in line 21 in this code, can you help me?
Thank you

[Towfiq I.]

@Cecilia open up functions.php and add this:

/***WPML Translation Shortcode****/
if(! function_exists('wpex_wpml_lang_translate')) {
        function wpex_wpml_lang_translate( $atts, $content = null ) {
                extract(shortcode_atts(array(
                        'lang' => '',
                ), $atts));
 
                $current_lang = ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE; //get WPL current language
 
                if($lang == $current_lang){
                    return do_shortcode($content);
                }  
        }
        add_shortcode('wpml_translate', 'wpex_wpml_lang_translate');
}

after this:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'asteria_home_query' );

[Cecilia]

Thank you!
Unfortunately continues to report an error. Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_RETURN in /var/www/virtual/nomesito/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/themes/asteria-lite/functions.php on line 30

I tried also to insert it in an editor (dreamweaver) and also reports the error. You will find the image of the screen here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ik815wwy73k4677/code.jpg

[Towfiq I.]

copy all the code of your fucntions.php after adding the code and paste it in a pastebin.com page and share it here.

[Cecilia]

http://pastebin.com/WJytBA1d

[Towfiq I.]

there is a sytanx error in the code. a bracket was missing. try this:

/***WPML Translation Shortcode****/
if(! function_exists('wpex_wpml_lang_translate')) {
        function wpex_wpml_lang_translate( $atts, $content = null ) {
                extract(shortcode_atts(array(
                        'lang' => '',
                ), $atts));
 
                $current_lang = ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE; //get WPL current language
 
                if($lang == $current_lang){
                    return do_shortcode($content);
                }  
        }
        add_shortcode('wpml_translate', 'wpex_wpml_lang_translate');
}

[Cecilia]

Thank you. Now there isn’t syntax errors, I can save “functions.php” without problems. But i tried to add your shortcodes like this:
[wpml_language language=”en”]Your English Text Here…[/wpml_language] in the welcome text and doesn’t work. Can you help me?
Thanks in advance the theme is very cute.

[Towfiq I.]

does your content-welcome-text.php contains this:

<?php echo do_shortcode($asteria['welcm_textarea_id']); ?>

[Cecilia]

Yes, there is.
But the shortcode like this [wpml_language language=”en”]Your English Text Here…[/wpml_language] doesn’t work.
I see the same code in the front end.
Thank you.

[Towfiq I.]

are you adding the code in text mode or html mode? try in both modes and see if that worked…

[Cecilia]

I tried all (visual and html) and doesn’t work.

[Isis]

Hi Towfiq,

I made a website in two different languages using the Polylang plugin. How can I make two different homepages (one in English and one in Spanish) using your theme?

Kind regards,

Isis

[Towfiq I.]

@Cecilia send me your site’s id/pass through this page:

Contact

I will look into it when I have some time.

@Isis whats your site address?

[Cecilia]

Thank you, I sent you an email with site’s id / pass and address.

[Towfiq I.]

sorry guys. it should have been:

[wpml_translate lang="en"]Your English Text Here...[/wpml_translate]
[wpml_translate lang="it"]Your Italian Text Here...[/wpml_translate]

@Cecilia check your site. Fixed it.