{"id":44944,"date":"2019-07-26T13:49:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T18:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/?p=44944"},"modified":"2021-08-16T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T20:00:23","slug":"how-to-translate-wordpress-themes-with-loco-translate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/themes\/how-to-translate-wordpress-themes-with-loco-translate\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Translate WordPress Themes with Loco Translate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"#install-loco-translate\">Install Loco Translate<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#create-directory\">Create Directory for Languages<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#translate-wordpress\">Translate WordPress Theme<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This article describes how to use the Loco Translate plugin to<strong> translate WordPress themes<\/strong> to other languages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p class=\"alert alert-info\" role=\"alert\">A couple of benefits of being an InMotion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/wordpress-hosting\">WordPress Hosting<\/a> customer is that we can migrate over your existing website or easily get you set up with a site that has WordPress already installed.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"install-loco-translate\">Install the Loco Translate Plugin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Does your website get traffic from areas that speak different languages? WordPress does not include a built-in translation ability. But, you can install the Loco Translate plugin to make it easier to translate your site. You can then provide your site content to a larger audience that may not speak English. This can increase the overall traffic to your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"article_list wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/logging-into-wordpress-dashboard\/\">Log into your WordPress Dashboard<\/a>.<\/li><li>Click <strong>Plugins<\/strong> then <strong>Add New<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Type \u2018<strong>loco translate<\/strong>\u2019 in the search field.<\/li><li>Click the <strong>Install Now<\/strong> button next to the <em>Loco Translate<\/em> plugin by <em>Tim Whitlock<\/em>.<\/li><li>Click the <strong>Activate<\/strong> button once it has been installed.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"create-directory\">Create a Directory for Languages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, that you have installed the Loco Translate plugin for WordPress, we will need to create a folder for the language translation files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"article_list wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/cpanel\/how-to-log-into-cpanel\/\">Log into your cPanel<\/a>.<\/li><li>Click <strong>File Manager<\/strong> in the <em>Files<\/em> section.<\/li><li>Go to the <a href=\"\/support\/website\/where-to-upload-files\/\">document root<\/a> of your WordPress site and open the <strong>wp-content<\/strong> folder.<\/li><li>Click the <strong>+Folder<\/strong> option on the top-left.<\/li><li>Name the folder \u201c<em>languages<\/em>\u201d without the quotation marks then click the <strong>Create New Folder<\/strong> button.<br><p class=\"alert alert-warning\" role=\"alert\"><strong>Note:<\/strong> If the \u201c<em>languages<\/em>\u201d folder already exists, just skip this step.<\/p><\/li><li>Double click the <strong>Languages<\/strong> folder to open it. Click the <strong>+Folder<\/strong> button again and type \u201c<em>loco<\/em>\u201d without the quotation marks, then click the <strong>Create New Folder<\/strong> button.<\/li><li>Double-click the <strong>loco<\/strong> folder to open it.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Click the <strong>+Folder<\/strong> button and type \u201c<em>themes<\/em>\u201d without the quotation marks. Then, click the <strong>Create New Folder<\/strong> button.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"translate-wordpress\">Translate your WordPress Theme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You now have the Loco Translate plugin installed and the language folders created. Time to get to work translating your theme. These steps may differ slightly based on the specific theme you are using. For example, if your theme includes translation files you may only have to manually translate a few things. But if your theme does not have any translation files, you will most likely have to translate everything manually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"article_list wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/logging-into-wordpress-dashboard\/\">Log into your WordPress Dashboard<\/a>.<\/li><li>Click on <strong>Settings<\/strong> then <strong>General<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Next to <em>Site Language<\/em>, choose the language you want to translate to.<\/li><li>Click <strong>Loco Translate<\/strong> then <strong>Themes<\/strong> in the navigation menu.<\/li><li>Select the theme you want to translate.<\/li><li>Click the <strong>+New language<\/strong>, then <strong>Create template<\/strong> link.<\/li><li>Click the <strong>Create template<\/strong> button.<\/li><li>Choose a langage from the drop-down menu under <em>WordPress language<\/em>.<\/li><li>Click the <strong>Start translating<\/strong> button. If your theme included translation files it may already have some parts of the theme available in other languages.<\/li><li>You will see the original English text from the theme in the <em>Source text<\/em> section. Click the string then enter the translation in the bottom. Repeat these steps for each <em>Source Text<\/em>.<\/li><li>After updating all the Source text click the <strong>Save<\/strong> button.<\/li><li>Click the <strong>Sync<\/strong> button to update your theme file.<\/li><li>Click the <strong>Save<\/strong> button if you want to keep the synced info.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, you know how to translate a WordPress theme even when it does not include translation files. Now you can start using them in other languages.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Learn more about the power of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/themes\/\">WordPress Themes<\/a> and how they can simplify your website building and maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article Install Loco Translate Create Directory for Languages Translate WordPress Theme This article describes how to use the Loco Translate plugin to translate WordPress themes to other languages. 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