Datepicker language + Date format

Hello,

Thanks for your message. The language setting that you can choose for the Shortcodes of Vik Booking is actually just a filter, so that you could use a unique Shortcode string for a specific type and language on your website.

However, that setting will not actually tell WordPress to load a specific language, because that should be handled through your multi-language plugin. This means that the page that you’re currently testing should have the French language assigned, so that WordPress will load the apposite translation file of VikBooking for French.

Also, dates will not actually be translated. Dates are formatted accordingly to the global configuration settings defined in VikBooking respectively for the “date format” as well as the “date separator”. In your case, the separator should be the default slash (“/”) while the format should be d/m/Y for Europe.

Lastly, you mentioned the “preferred country” setting in the configuration page of VikBooking: that value will not actually control the website’s default language, as this is something related to the WordPress global settings. That value instead will place France at the top of the list next to a custom field of type “Phone number”. For example, if you try to create a manual reservation from the page Calendar, when clicking the “Assign Customer” button you will see the phone number input field where the “preferred” countries will be listed at the top. Alternatively, you can just test the behavior by using the booking process in the front-end section of your website.

We hope this helps!
The VikWP Team

Hello,

Thanks for your answer. You made the shortcode part clear.

I also checked my global wordpress settings, and my website language is set to french. However, the datepicker is still showing english months, and I don’t know how to change this ?

Thanks in advance for taking your time

Hello,

We would like to understand better if only the datepicker is not being translated? Do you see other language strings being translated correctly?

If you see partial translations, then we can shorten the list of who could be responsible of this issue to the one below:

• the French translation for VikBooking may be incomplete.
• some third-party plugins may override the jQuery UI Datepicker that ships with WordPress to load their own language translations.

Please investigate on the above possible causes of the missing translations to see if you can actually fix the problem.

Also, if you are familiar with inspecting the HTML source code of the page, then you should be able to read the VikBooking translations for the datepicker. If you see them correctly defined in French, then the responsible of the issue must be a third-party plugin.

The VikWP Team

Thanks for your answer !

Currently, there isn’t any language plugin installed on my website : the only language used is french. All my rooms informations are wrote in this language. If I understand Vibooking’s backend correctly, I am able to set translations for other languages, in my example english, which will be visible once I install a language plugin and view my website as an english user.

So my problem is that even if french is currently set as the main language of my website, the datepickers appear in english. I simply want to know if I am missing something.

Or do you mean there is a setting in Vikbooking where I have to set the french months names ? Because I was assuming this was automatic based on the current language

Hi,

There are two types of translations available, the WordPress translation files in PO/MO format as well as the internal translation records in VikBooking, that would allow you for example to translate a room name/description into another language, like English.

With VikBooking you cannot manage the PO/MO translation files, because these are either downloaded automatically by WordPress (if available), or you can manually download a user-contributed translation of the plugin from our website.

That said, the datepicker calendars that show the name of the months as well as the name of the week days, are controlled by the PO/MO translation files. This means that you cannot add such missing translations through VikBooking, it has to be done elsewhere, either on the WordPress official translation page for our plugin or by using a language plugin on your webite.

We were wondering if a French translation file (PO/MO) was available in your website at all. That’s why we asked if only the datepicker calendars were untranslated or if any page of VikBooking was in English. For example, other buttons, contents or pages generated by VikBooking should be displayed in French as long as you have a French PO/MO file on your website.