Change one word!

  • Resolved davehep

    (@davehep)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi there.

    I have WooThemes Canvas as my main theme and Scholar set as the Child Theme and the Sensei plugin.

    I want to change just one word at the front end – i.e., change the word ‘quiz’ (which appears in several places and on a couple of buttons throughout the theme) to either ‘Test’ or ‘Progress Check’ – or something similar. I just hate the word ‘Quiz’.

    The guys at WooThemes told me it was possible using the Loco plugin, but I am wary of making any changes before I know it’s going to work!

    I have followed the step-by-step instructions up to the point where I am asked to chose a common language, or enter a language code. Well this is where I am stuck. I don’t want a whole new language – I am happy with English – I only want to change one word, ‘Quiz’.

    Can anyone help me please with a simple step-by-step from the point I have reached as described above?

    Thanks,

    Dave

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/loco-translate/

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  • Plugin Author Tim W

    (@timwhitlock)

    This is not really a question about my plugin, so much as a general WordPress localisation question.

    WordPress is US English by default, so to create alternative English text (without changing the source strings in the theme) you would have to create a translations file for en_US and make sure your theme loads it.

    Bear in mind that it’s not normal to load translation files for the source language. I would not say this is good practice at all, but as long as your theme loads the file it should work.

    I don’t want a whole new language

    Creating a whole new language as you put it, won’t mean translating every string because any translations not in your new language will just fall back to the source string. Just change strings you want to override.

    Thread Starter davehep

    (@davehep)

    Great – thanks for the prompt response, Tim – I’ll give it a go!

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