Language translation

@brasilmorar

Hi! Thanks for writing the forums.

I tried to get this to work too, but haven’t yet.

So far I switched my wordpress site language to Brazil Portugese, and then I copied the pw-spe-pt_PT.po and .mo files and changed them to pw-spe-pt_BR.po and .mo, respectively.

Then I refreshed my page.

Unfortunately, that didn’t do it. I still see the simple-post-expiration -related strings are in English.

I’m not sure what other steps are needed, may have to be looked into further.

@brasilmorar, what else have you tried? What will you try next?

@brasilmorar

Hi Carlos,

I looked again. I noticed that the localization as a whole doesn’t seem to be working for this plugin.

I’m concluding that the plugin code may need to be updated by a plugin author, in order for it to start working. In fact, I think it’s best if someone (or we, when we get a chance) puts this in as a bug fix request to the plugin author!…

But if you want to do a temporary patch then you could do this fix:

In “simple-post-expiration.php”, on line 48, change this:
load_plugin_textdomain( 'pw-spe' );

, to this:
load_plugin_textdomain('pw-spe', false, plugin_basename(dirname(__FILE__)). '/languages');

That did it for me!

Once I did that, the plugin’s translations started to become loaded.

The last step, to make a Brazilian Portugese translation, it can be done by adding the appropriate .po(/.mo) file and adding it to the plugin files, like:
…/plugins/simple-post-expiration/languages/pw-spe-pt_BR.po
…/plugins/simple-post-expiration/languages/pw-spe-pt_BR.mo

Some of the resources I used:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=wordpress+plugin+internationalization+hello+world
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/12/internationalizing-localizing-wordpress-theme/

Will you write back again to let us know how you go?

-Morgan

Update: I submitted a pull request to the plugin author in hopes that it will be put into the plugin’s core code.

Link:
https://github.com/pippinsplugins/Simple-Post-Expiration/pull/8/commits/0a161292ef573ae3379a1afe72b3e011e609fcca

Hello,

Thanks for the reply but this plugin does not meet my need, it just creates a message in the post about the expiration date. I was in need of a plugin that would deactivate the post and send it to the draft folder or recycle bin. I got a plugin with this function.

@brasilmorar

Hey! That’s good to hear, that you found a workaround!

Since it is resolved, would you mind marking this thread as “resoloved”?

@brasilmorar
Hi, could you please tell me which plugin you found for deactivating a post automatically? Thanks.

@mjjojo
Sadly your solution is not working for me.

Hello,

This is the plugin link: https://br.www.ads-software.com/plugins/post-expirator/

This plugin has no more update but is working on the latest version of wordpress.