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Jigoshop. How to change site language

Norman Fisher January 15, 2013
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This tutorial is going to show you how to change your Jigoshop site language.

  1. Go to http://www.poedit.net/download.php and download the latest stable version of Poedit for your compatible with your system.
  2. Install and run Poedit on your computer.
  3. In Poedit  click Open  and navigate to the language you’d like to add taken from wp-content\plugins\jigoshop\languages\ on your server. E.g. jigoshop-es_ES.po
  4. In Poedit  go to Catalog -> Update from POT File
  5. Select the jigoshop.pot file taken from the wp-content\plugins\jigoshop\languages\ folder on your server.
  6. In the window that is going to to pop up click OK to proceed.
  7. The next thing you are going to do is translating all the strings in the file. Just click the string that needs to be translated and add/change your translation variant to the Translation field.
  8. Click Save when you are done.
  9. The updated language .po and .mo files (E.g. jigoshop-es_ES.po / jigoshop-es_ES.mo) should be uploaded back to the /wp-content/plugins/jigoshop/languages/ folder on your server using your favorite FTP client.
  10. To select the new language, on your FTP open the wp-config.php file to edit.
  11. Look for define(‘WPLANG’, ”);   in the file using Ctrl+F  and insert your local into the quotes. E.g.  define(‘WPLANG’, ‘es_ES’); For the list of locals, please check http://www.roseindia.net/tutorials/I18N/locales-list.shtml
  12. If  the language you are going to use is not in the wp-content\plugins\jigoshop\languages\ folder, you can generate the one of your own in Poedit by going to File > New Catalog from POT and selecting the jigoshop.pot file.

Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:

Jigoshop. How to change site language
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