How to make WordPress theme translation ready?

How to make WordPress theme translation ready?

3 Simple Steps to Create Translation-Ready Theme

1. Create and load text domain for your WordPress theme.
2. Enclose Translatable Text String with WordPress gettext function.
3. Create the POT file.

What does translation ready mean in WordPress?

The term ‘translation-ready’ means that the WP theme supports multi languages. Usually, it includes a subfolder (with name ‘langs’ or ‘languages’) with language files. In this way, you ‘tell’ the WordPress that language of your site is Bulgarian.

How to translate any WordPress theme into another language?

Open Poedit and select Create new translation:

1. A new window will pop up, select WordPress theme you want to translate.
2. Next, from a dropdown menu select a language you want to translate your theme to:
3. You are ready to translate your theme now.
4. In the Translation section enter a desired translation of the source string:

How do I change the language on my Astra theme?

In the post below, I will explain how GlotPress works and how you can use it to translate Astra in your own language.

1. Visit the GlotPress Project.
2. Step 2: Login or Register a new account.
3. Step 3: Choose your language from the list. (
4. Step 4: Click on the name of your language to see all available strings (Screenshot)

What is the process of making the code you write so that is ready for translation?

Internationalization is the process of making your code ready to translate (done by the original developer). It’s abbreviated as i18n (because there are 18 letters between “i” and “n”).

Is Astra theme translation ready?

The Astra theme is 100% translation ready and can be used alongside WPML in order to create a multilingual website. Before we proceed with this you need to make sure you’ve purchased the latest version of WPML for your website. You will first need to install and activate the core WPML plugins, viz.