[italosan]

Hi guys,
I’m an happy owner of a “Paeon” template.
I would like to know how to change (read translate) the “read more” text.
I don’t know if I’m blind or but I think I didn’t find anything about that in theme options.

Thank you very much

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Hi,

Thanks for writing and thanks for your purchase.

With regards to the translations, there are several ways to translate the theme. Personally, I like to use the program Poedit, you can get a copy over here: http://www.poedit.net/

First, download and install Poedit. Then, see that within the theme files there’s a folder named “lang”. Over there you can find the translatable files. So, for example, in order to translate the theme to “Swedish”, you’ll need to do the following:

1. Open the file in Poedit.
On the left, there’s a box with the original message (in English) from the POT file. Beside that box is where you add your translation.
2. Go to File → Save as… to save your translations in a PO file. (must be named sv_SE.po and sv_SE.mo)
3. When you are finished translating, go to File → Save as… again to generate the MO file.

Finally, you need to be running your WordPress install in Swedish:

http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language#Swedish_-_Svenska_.28sv_SE.29

You can change Swedish, for any other language listed on the last link I’ve sent you.

Best,
Juan.

[italosan]

Hi Juanfra,
and thanks for the very detailed answer. I was more oriented on an “hard code” translation since I never used Poedit. But it seems very powerful so definitely it worth a try.
Thanks again for the suggestion and I’ll let you know.

Cheers

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Italo

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Hi Italo,

No worries, I´m happy to help.

The problem with the hardcoded solution is that you’ll face a problem whenever you update the theme. Plus, you’ll need to revise a lot of files in order to check, where to change the desired string.

Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.

Best,
Juan.

[italosan]

Yes Juanfra,
a lot of good arguments indeed. But I never faced Poedit and it looks great so far. This will solve me a lot of problems and perhaps will help me even more in the future.
So thanks again to let me discover this.
Welll there are other 2/3 things I still need to solve with the theme but I want to try some solutions/tricks before disturb you again.

Have fun

—
Italo

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Hey Italo,

Sounds great! Poedit is the way to go when it comes to translations 🙂

Please, feel free to post any other topics on the forum if you need assistance.

Be awesome,
Juan.

[italosan]

check this as solved 😛

(thanks to poedit)

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Hi,

Thanks for the follow up. Brilliant 🙂

Have a nice day,
Juan.