Quick Translation of any String
In this post you will learn how you can translate any text on your WordPress website with the help of PHP. You can translate any string, on the frontend and also on the backend. If a string is found, it will be changed EVERYWHERE, so you can’t just use it for one place. Be sure that the text you want to change is really a text and not an image.
In our example we want to change the “Dashboard” text on the backend dashboard to “Arrow Design Dashboard”.
This is how the Dashboard looks like before changing the code:
You can change the “Dashboard” text by adding the following code to your functions.php file:
add_filter('gettext', 'arrow_design_translate_text');
add_filter('ngettext', 'arrow_design_translate_text');
function arrow_design_translate_text($translated) {
$translated = str_ireplace('Dashboard', 'Arrow Design Dashboard', $translated);
return $translated;
}
This is how the Dashboard looks like after changing the code:
Code Explanation
str_ireplace()
This function is used to translate the string. The function is case-insensitive, if you need a case-sensitive function for this, use str_replace(). str_ireplace() has either 3 or 4 parameters, the last parameter is optional and this is the syntax: str_ireplace(find,replace,string,count)
gettext()
This function looks up a message in the current domain and the return value is a translated string.
ngettext()
This function is the plural version of gettext().
Conclusion
We hope this Quick Translation of any String post was helpful and you are now able to integrate this also on your website! You can find more articles here:
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More information about the PHP functions:
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