[c3creaties]

hi,

i would like to change the language of this theme.
for example the business hours. Now it’s displayed as:
Monday 11:30 AM — 02:00 PM
Tuesday Closed
…
While in Dutch it should be:
Maandag 11:30u – 14:00u
Dinsdag gesloten

Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks in advance
kind regards
Cedric

[c3creaties]

anyone? I really have to launch this site end of this week.
Thanks
C

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Hi Cedric,

Thanks for writing

Sorry for the late response. I’ll happily help you with this issue.

The best way to translate site strings is to translate directly the .po and .mo files. This has to do with the system that WordPress has for translating strings.

Personally, I like to use the program Poedit, you can get a copy over here: http://poedit.net/

First, download and install Poedit. Then, see that within the theme files there’s a folder named “/lang”. Over there you can find the translatable files. So, you’ll need to do the following:

1. Open the file in Poedit.
On the left, there’s a box with the original message (in English) from the POT file. Beside that box is where you add your translation.
2. Go to File → Save as… to save your translations in a PO file. (must be named with the language identifier. For example for dutch, If I’m not wrong, it would be nl_NL.po and nl_NL.mo )
3. When you are finished translating, go to File → Save as… again to generate the MO file.

Finally, you need to be running your WordPress install in the language you are trying to have the translation in.

Best,
Juan.

[c3creaties]

hi Juan,

thanks! that helped al lot! Can i also change the way the hours are displayed?
24h system in stead of AM-PM?
Thanks
C

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Hi Cedric,

No problem. I’m happy to help.

Regarding time format, there’s an option over the Theme Options panel (in the “Business Setup” section) – you can set that directly from there. You need to understand a little bit of formatting dates with PHP (which honestly, is really straightforward) – http://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time

Best,
Juan.

[c3creaties]

great, that was indeed easy.
You can consider this ticket as closed!
Thank you
(i have al couple of others still open, if you’re feeling bored :-))
C

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Hi Cedric,

No problem, we’re on it 🙂

Best,
Juan.