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#POEDIT TUTORIAL WORDPRESS INSTALL#
#POEDIT TUTORIAL WORDPRESS MANUAL#

#POEDIT TUTORIAL WORDPRESS INSTALL#

To change WordPress language manually requires that you install POEDIT and upload language files to /wp-content. It must be the exact same spelling and case as the screen message.

Create a New Text Change using the Say What? Plugin.

The text domain for Yoast local plugin is yoast-local-seo wp-content/plugins/wpseo-local/languages/yoast-local-seo.pot To find the text domain for the plugin, look at the plugin’s language file name. Note: If you’re changing a WordPress core message, you don’t have to enter a text domain.

Find the Text Domain of the Plugin whose Message you are Changing.

This plugin allows you to modify individual messages. Click here for instructions on installing WordPress plugins. Install the plugin, enter the original message and the replacement message and save.

#POEDIT TUTORIAL WORDPRESS MANUAL#

There’s nothing wrong with this, but, in the case of changing plugin messages, I prefer the manual way because it is much more streamlined : the only thing you add to WordPress is a modified language file. For example, the Say What? plugin adds tables to your database. Second, unless it’s absolutely necessary, I don’t want to depend on a plugin and the baggage that brings. First, by manually adding code, it helps me learn how WordPress works. Note: Whenever possible, I prefer to change WordPress or add functions to WordPress manually rather than by using a plugin. Install a plugin that allows you to change language strings.

If you want to change WordPress or Plugin messages, the following are your choices: In my case, the Yoast Local SEO plugin used language, Secondary Phone, that I needed to change. By modifying the WordPress core language file, you can change any of the text on this screen except the website Title. By using language files, WordPress makes it possible to customize these messages or translate them to a different language without editing the program files of WordPress or the Plugin.įor example, when you log into WordPress, there is language on the screen. The user will see these messages in the WordPress administration screens, in error messages, and on the pages of the website. WordPress uses a language framework that allows WordPress developers to add messages to their program. That’s when I began a two hour search trying to figure out how I could modify a language file without hacking the plugin.įirst, let me explain what the language files do. But yesterday, I installed the Yoast Local SEO plugin on a site and noticed that the company field called Second Phone showed up on the page as Secondary Phone.

Until Yesterday, I’ve never had a reason to modify WordPress language files.