Translate feed’s meta info

In the plugin’s code, all translatable strings are placed inside a double underscore function along with a specified domain.

Here is an example:

__( 'Older posts', WPRSS_TEXT_DOMAIN )

This is the internationalization part of translation, also known as i18n, that makes ‘Older posts’ available for translation.

A program like PoEdit can read code and find all the text inside such functions, and put all such found text in a po file. We provide this file in our plugins in the languages folder.

You can open that file in PoEdit, and provide different versions of the text for different languages, and then save that translation in an mo file. This is the localization part of translation, also known as l10n.

When the code runs, the double underscore function will look for an mo file with the name domain-lang.mo. Example: wprss-en_US.mo. From that file, it will load the translation for ‘Older posts’ when you run the site in the desired language.

You can read more about internationalization at the Common APIs Handbook page.

Is there anything else I can help with?

Thank you Naveed, that was exactly what I needed!

I managed to translate the “Newer/Older” succesfully, but I’m still struggling with the “Time Ago” format. When I open the .po file with Poedit theres a possibility to translate “%1$s ago”, what should I use instead of “%1$s”?

This might help to explain: https://www.ultimasnoticias.site/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Screen-Shot-2020-07-03-at-10.53.47.png

@teemuee Are you using PHP 7.0 or later? If so, I can provide a customization.

@hypersonic Yes, PHP 7.4.6 in one of the sites and another one is using PHP 7.3.

Thinking this through, our team has decided to include translations you mentioned in a new release of our core plugin soon.

Please keep an eye out for a new release that we plan to publish soon.