Translation problems

[kmilkus]

Dear Sir or Madam,

I couldn’t find the proper strings neither in a Russian nor in an English (UK) translation for “Events from”, “Date”, “Search”, “keyword” etc. (see screenshot). Please, help me to translate The events calendar PRO.

Regards,
Kirill

[Jeremy]

Hello Kirill,

Thank you for reaching out to us!

I’ll be happy to help you.

To change those strings, you would need to copy/paste a snippet in your theme’s function PHP, and modify it with your Russian translations, so it would look like that:

	// This example changes the label "Venue" to "Location", and "Related Events" to "Similar Events"
	$custom_text = array(
		'Venue' => 'Location',
		'Related %s' => 'Similar %s',
	);

You will find the full snippet in our documentation about changing the wording of any bit of text or string.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jeremy

[kmilkus]

Hello Jeremy,

no, it didn’t. I bought your calendar, but I simply cannot use it! Let me explain. My website is in Russian. First of all, I tried to switch the language to Russian, but your Russian translation is very very bad and some words aren’t even translated. Ok. I downloaded Poedit and tried to translate it by myself, using articles on your website. But then I faced two problems:
1. I translated some strings I need, uploaded them to …/plugins/events-calendar-pro/lang and nothing happened, although I overwrote previous files.
2. Some strings, like those I wrote you about, aren’t even strings and to change them I need to add some code to my WP. I don’t understand, what function PHP means. I am not a programmer. And it didn’t help.

It would be honestly better if you could return my money. With all respect to your work, I just cannot use your product.

[Jeremy]

Hello Kirill,

I am sorry for the difficulties you encounter setting up your website in your language; it is true our Russian translation is incomplete. We rely heavily on our community to provide translations as it is not practical for us to provide translations for all languages by ourselves. Perhaps you could contribute to this effort? Learn more by reading this Knowledgebase article about translating The Events Calendar.

I noticed you reached out to support in November, but did not get back to us. At this point, you past the refund period which was within 30 days of payment.

However, I will do my best to help you translate your website!

I translated locally the strings you mentioned in French and the process to translate into Russian is exactly the same:

1. Copy the .mo and .po files you want to modify.
   First, in /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/lang/:
   the-events-calendar-ru_RU.mo
   the-events-calendar-ru_RU.po
   Then, in /wp-content/plugins/events-calendar-pro/lang/:
   tribe-events-calendar-pro-ru_RU.mo
   tribe-events-calendar-pro-ru_RU.po
2. Paste the files in the following directory:
   /wp-content/languages/plugins/
3. Modify the .po files with the strings or words you want, and use a converter to create a new .mo file (I’ve used PoEdit, but you can also use https://po2mo.net)
   There is something tricky to know: to translate “Events From”, you will need to search for “%s From” (
4. Create new .mo files.
   If you save via PoEdit, a new .mo file will be automatically created and will replace the previous one. If you use https://po2mo.net, you will need to download the new .mo and replace the original from /wp-content/languages/plugins/

In our Knowledgebase, you will find more information about how to override plugin language files.

I hope this will help you translating your website. If you need further help, please feel free to ask me!

Have a great week-end,

Jeremy

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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