[Resolved] Translation problem .po/.mo with Polylang

[Viktor]

Hi there,
I downloaded and edited the .po/.mo files for Bulgarian (bg_BG) and added them to gp-premium\lang\. This translated some of the backend but at the front end in the Blog section “Leave a comment” (for zero comments) and “# Comments” remain in English even though I have translated them manually in the .po file.
Any ides what might be going on? I use Polylang for managing the website languages.
Thanks a lot!

[Tom]

Hi there,

Those values are in the free theme, so you’d need to grab the translations from here: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-themes/generatepress

Then the file would go into wp-content/translations/themes.

Let me know if this helps or not 🙂

[Silvano]

Hi Tom,
I got the same issue… my website have 3 languages portuguese, english and bulgarian… for the bulgarian I used PO archive from https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-themes/generatepress.
and I did exactily what you said, but some terms didn’t translated like fields in comment area and search field placeholder.

do you have any idea what may be?

[Tom]

And those terms are fully translated in the .po files you downloaded?

[Silvano]

Yes, I checked :/

[Tom]

Just to confirm, where did you add the .po file? And what did you name it?

[Silvano]

Hi,
well, when I reported the issue for you, I was testing only on my local version of the website.
I downloaded the files and renamed it to generatepress-bg_BG.po and generatepress-bg_BG.mo and put it in the wp-content/languages/themes folder. Now I put these same files in this same folder but in the online version and it worked.

Does that make sense?

https://ilkominev.com/

[Tom]

Local vs live shouldn’t matter, but it sounds like you’re doing everything right. Maybe the wp-content/languages folder requires a live server? Super strange.

[Aleš]

Hello,

I have the same problem. I went through your article https://docs.generatepress.com/article/uploading-translations/ and the translations are not visible on the site. I tried to translate comment section on my wodpress site but it’s stuck in “English” language (Leave a comment, Post comment,..).

Is there any caching involved?

[Tom]

There shouldn’t be.

Did you upload GeneratePress translations or GP Premium translations?

[Aleš]

Hi, I exported GeneratePress po file from wodpres translation page, renamed as stated in the article and uploaded to the folder via ftp.

[Tom]

Hmm, that should do it for those particular strings.

Which language are you downloading?

[Aleš]

Slovenian

[Tom]

And just to confirm, you exported both the .po and .mo files and named them like this:

generatepress-sl_SI.po
generatepress-sl_SI.mo

Then you uploaded them in wp-content/languages/themes?

Let me know 🙂

[Aleš]

Hmm..sorry for not knowing but how can I export .mo file? 🙂 There is only option for .po export on the wordpress page (or am I missing something).

EDIT: OK Looks like I missed the option for exporting .mo file. I would sugest to add this to your article. I will try uploading .mo file also.

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