If you’re using WordPress and WooCommerce to run your online store, you may need to translate some of the pages on your site into another language. This can be useful if you’re running a multilingual store, or if you want to offer customer support in multiple languages.
Fortunately, translating pages in WooCommerce is relatively easy to do. In this article, we’ll show you how to translate a page in WooCommerce step by step.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
- Installing the WordPress Multi Language Plugin
- Translating Pages in WooCommerce
- Conclusion: How Do I Translate a Page in WooCommerce?
Installing the WordPress Multi Language Plugin
The first thing you need to do is install and activate the WordPress Multi Language plugin. For more information, see our article on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Once the plugin is activated, you’ll need to configure it. First, go to Settings » General from the left sidebar of your WordPress admin panel. On this page, scroll down to the Site Language option and select the language you want to use for your site from the dropdown menu.
If no translation exists for your language, you will need to create one yourself. When doing so, it is important to keep the following in mind:
1. WooCommerce uses a gettext translation system, which means that all of the strings used in the plugin are stored in a .pot file. This file can be found in the /languages/ directory of the plugin.
2. When translating WooCommerce, it is important to use the correct text domain. The text domain for WooCommerce is ‘woocommerce’.
3. All of the translated strings should be placed in a .po file named after your language code (for example, de_DE.po for German). These files should be placed in the /languages/ directory as well.
4. Finally, you will need to generate a .mo file from your .po file using a program such as poedit. This .mo file should also be placed in the /languages/ directory and it will be used by WooCommerce to
Translating Pages in WooCommerce
- Go to the page you want to translate and click on the “Edit with Translation” button next to the “Publish” button.
- A new translation editor will open where you can enter the translated version of your content.
- Click on the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the page when finished.
- Your translated content will now be available on your site for visitors who browse in the selected language.
Conclusion:
In this article, we showed you how to translate a page in WooCommerce. First, we installed and activated the WordPress Multi Language plugin. Then we translated our pages using the translation editor.
