Maaike

Yes, this worked like a charm. Thank you so much for all your effort!

Hi bcworkz,

Thank you for your continuous support.
I have inserted the code in the header, and this was the output:

The proper language attribute: dir="rtl" lang="ar"

If you want, I could give you access to the backend to make things easier? Is there a way to send a pm on WordPress forum?

Hi bzworkz,

I’m so sorry to keep bothering you with this, but it changed back to the English. ??
I placed it as:

add_filter('gettext', function( $tran, $txt, $dom ) {
  if ( 'Select Category' == $txt && 'lang="ar"'== get_language_attributes()) return '???? ?????';
  return $tran;
}, 10, 3 );

Hello bcworkz,

Thank you for your assistance in this.
The if line gave the following error:
'Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function get_language_attribute() in'

When I tried the put the echo code in the header.php, I got this:

Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function get_language_attribute() in wp-content/themes/bb-theme/header.php:49
Stack trace:
#0 wp-includes/template.php(730): require_once()
#1 wp-includes/template.php(676): load_template('/home/forge/moa...', true, Array)
#2 wp-includes/general-template.php(48): locate_template(Array, true, true, Array)
#3 wp-content/themes/bb-theme/page.php(1): get_header()
#4 wp-includes/template-loader.php(106): include('/home/forge/moa...')
#5 wp-blog-header.php(19): require_once('/home/forge/moa...')
#6 index.php(17): require('/home/forge/moa...')
#7 {main}
  thrown

Am I doing something wrong?

Could we add another filter that recognizes the language (html[lang=”ar”]), so that I can set it for both languages (‘select category’ and ‘???? ?????’)?

It worked! Thank you so much. Really appreciate it.

Hello bcworkz,

Thanks for your reply.

The dashboard language is English (set in settings > geenral), however in Polylang I’ve set the default language to Arabic.

I’ll try to reach polylang regarding the locale filter.

Could you explain to me how I approach the gettext filter technique?

Hey t-p,

Thanks for the quick reply!
Are you sure it is connected to the theme? (it’s bb-child-theme)
Because the widget, the category dropdown, is a default wordpress widget, so I’m not sure if the support team from Beaverbuilder can help me in this.