Language – translation error

Hey there,

You mentioned you tried to fix the issue, did you update this so it’s in a .mo file or only the .po?

I wasn’t sure from what you are describing, if you’re unsure how to do this then hopefully the following article will help you:

https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-translate-a-wordpress-theme/

You need to update the .mo file.

Let me know.

Take care.

Timothy,
thanks for your answer. I don’t exactly know what my host did to try to fix the problem but they asked me what a POT file is. It is mentioned in the instructions you sent as the first step. We could not find a POT file anywhere. Where can that POT file be found?

Hey there,

They are usually located in the languages folder. For this theme it’s:

/origin/languages/

There are a few in there, DE, EN and FR. Both .PO and .MO files are there. ??

Hope this helps.

Yes, I saw those. But where is the POT file that they talk about in the link you send as instructions?
Thanks for the quick reply!

It tells you right there:

PO (Portable Object) files: The second step involves translating the text in a POT file into the target language, saving both English and translator messages in a PO file.

MO (Machine Object) files: In the last step, the PO file is converted into a machine readable format.

The PO file is it.

Cheers.

Does that mean that the PO file is actually the POT file? Or does it mean I can skip the first step with the POT file because the Theme already has a PO File? Sorry I really don’t know anything about the technical site of Blogs..

As I just said, the PO file is it.

The PO file for this theme is in the languages folder. The author kindly made three translations available one of them being German, so if you need to correct a German DE translation you could open the DE version, correct in the PO file and then create a new MO file to replace the old one in there.

The article walks you through doing that.

Think of a PO file as a human readable file, and the MO as Machine readable. The PO file is what you use to do the translations in and you could consider this the raw copy. Then use the software mentioned in that article to create the machine version which WordPress requires.

Take care.

Thanks so much for your help, Timothy! Enjoy the weekend!

You’re most welcome, hope you have a great weekend too! ??

Maybe the author of the Origin Theme can actually correct the error in the German language so it will already be right in the next version?

In an ideal world that would be great, however looking at the authors support forum for this theme I’m not sure how actively they monitor tickets here.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/theme/origin

It looks like there are a fair few threads many months old without a response. Of course this doesn’t mean they don’t read them at least.

Looking at their profile here:

https://profiles.www.ads-software.com/Griden/

It appears they have a link, perhaps try and contact them through that method and suggest your correction to them.

Take care.

Great, will do! Thanks again!