Hi :-)

plugin localfileedit

tab language

No. If you select the language to translate (e.g. English (GB)) and then on the right click Display reference file: "common.lang.php" a window opens displaying that language file. Search for photo there and copy matching lines to the LocalFiles Editor's text entry and there change the word photo in the translation (only!) to artwork. For example, there's

$lang['%d photo is also linked to current tags'] = "%d photo is also linked to current keywords";

so change that to

$lang['%d photo is also linked to current tags'] = "%d artwork is also linked to current keywords";

Make sure you don't delete the
<?php
?>
from the text entry.

Hello !
There are also lang files in the plugins. Search among them.

I searched the admin.lang.php file for "Upload Photos" which I found and changed, but it doesn't change on the site.

I searched for "Edit photos" which cannot be found but when I search "Edit photo" it can.  I changed that, but again, it doesn't change the logged in menu on the site when I visit..

I did the same as you told me for the admin.lang.php file as I did for the common.lang.php but no changes I make to the admin.php.lang file make any difference on the site after saving changes.

The only language files I have active are the English US (default) and the English UK.  It seems I need English UK to make any changed to the lang files.

I'm stumped.

I would look at the lang files for the plugins but this doesn't really have anything to do with plugins.

Last edited by clixcity (2020-09-09 05:36:33)

It seems the TakeATour plugin provides an "Edit Photos" string, plugins/TakeATour/language/en_GB/plugin.lang.php. I didn't find anything for "Edit photos" (note case) in my installation. I don't know if translations for plugins are picked up from there, but try to add it to the LocalFiles Editor local/language/fr_FR.lang.php like this

$lang['Edit Photos'] = 'Éditer les photos';
$lang['Edit photos'] = 'Éditer les photos';

or whatever the correct translation would be. You may also have to grep what plugin provides the English string and look into its language files whether it has other identifiers for translatable strings than the English string.

clixcity wrote:

The only language files I have active are the English US (default) and the English UK.  It seems I need English UK to make any changed to the lang files.

I suggest to disable English UK in that case and use English GB instead. ~No browser will request en_UK as it isn't a proper locale, requests will be en_GB or en_US. In case there would be an en_UK request it should fall back to one of those (hopefully en_GB).

Btw, having an en_UK translation at all IMHO is wrong anyway, and that it differs from en_GB for some entries (i.e. has entries that en_GB doesn't) but otherwise is incomplete makes it even worse to find things.

Might I have missed a step?

1) I go to Plugins > LocalFiles Editor... tab Languages
2) I select English GB
3) open window from: Display reference file: "common.lang.php"
4) copy the text, replace all the 'photo' occurrences with 'image' on the right side of each relevant argument.
5) paste the new php code into the window under "local/language/en_GB.lang.php" (including closing php thingy '?>')
6) save...
7) repeat for English US and deactivated English_UK

But literally no text on the website has changed. Did I miss something?

Also, where do I save the edited admin.lang.php? In the same window? Won't that massively confuse the system?

Thank for your time.

edit:
ignore me, it actually works! What I didn't realize was that it wants you to exactly translate the phrases in the menu. I was expecting 'Album' to also translate automatically in any phrase that contains album. Thank you this works PERFECTLY!

Last edited by uncle_errol (2020-09-25 21:36:59)