Multisite Language

[snieder]

Hi there,
I’m running a Multisite with 3 languages. I would like the backend to stay in enlish, but the events are shown in italian. How can I do this?

[Brook]

Howdy snieder,

Good question. Are you running a multi-language plugin? Sadly our plugin is not fully compatible with some of those. So, I have to double check. I know a few user have gotten it to work with WPML, but that has proven to be a rocky road.

If you are currently happy with the wront end and WP Admin language of your site, and only TEC is is the wrong language on the front or back end, I think there is an easy fix. You could hook into the gettext filter, detect if this is an admin page or not, then return the translation from a the desired language domain. This snippet would be a good starting point. It hooks into the same filter, only it overrides text manually instead of importing from a different languages language file.

Unfortunately that last paragraph is going to sound like Greek to anyone not versed in the WP API. If you are unable to make that modification and do not know someone whom you can hire, have no fear. We actually keep a list of freelancers who are quite capable of making changes on your behalf. You can obtain this list by emailing [email protected] and requesting it.

Does that make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know. Cheers!

– Brook

[snieder]

Hey Brook,

thanks for the response. I’m running http://marketpress.com/product/multilingual-press-pro/ which does a great job and leaves the possibility to deactivate without breaking the whole page. Not rocky at all. I’m not a programmer but it looks like I found a workaround with an italian front and backend: I found a italian speaking admin ;-).

The only problem I’m facing right now: Where are the italian WP language filed to download. Any idea?

I’ll report, when it’s running.

For future development: It would be great to simply choose what language TEC is showing – without taking care to the WP Language.

Cheers,

Sven.

[snieder]

Hey, I found another simple workaround:
I downloaded the italian WP: http://it.wordpress.org and uploaded the language files. After changing to it alien, I deleted admin-network-it_IT.mo and *.po and admin-it_IT.mo and *.po. Voila – most of it in english. But all the fronted is in italian.

[Brook]

Nice work Sven! That is a clever work around. I am very happy you got it working. Please let us know if you have any further questions. We try to keep separate issues to separate topics as we have found that gets folks the fastest answers, so please open a new topic if you need anything else. Cheers!

– Brook

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