Hi,
In which file must I change the code to translate the fieldname Name, Email Adress and Website and the submit button text?
Translating comments form
14 posts from 6 voices- Started 2 years ago by jawes
- Latest reply from James Morrison
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First, open the Admin Panel, and navigate to Appearance > Editor. Then, you can open the comment form's code by selecting Contact Form Page Template on the right. In the code area find lines of code that read like this:
<?php _e('Website','avisio'); ?>You only have to change the text Website (or name, etc.) to get the desired effect.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Please open up comments.php and make the required changes there - search for following code:
if ($comment_author == '') $comment_author = __('Name'); if ($comment_author_email == '') $comment_author_email = __('E-Mail Adress'); if ($comment_author_url == '') $comment_author_url = __('Website');and change the words Name, Emil, etc. to your needs.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Carsten
MemberHi Dude,
I translated the Comments-Form aswell. Here is my (German) translation:
if ($comment_author_url == '') $comment_author_url = __('Webseite');The form looks fine but I have a problem.
If the "Webseite"-field is not filled out, the value "http://webseite/" is saved into the database.
It would be nicer if nothing would be saved in this case.Can you help?
Thank you very much!
Side note: I am using the Habitat-Theme. But I guess it is the same situation...
Posted 2 years ago # -
You can remove this "auto generated value" by replacing following code in comments.php:
<p><input type="text" name="email" class="text_input" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="22" tabindex="2" /> <label for="email"><small><?php _e('Mail (will not be published)','habitat'); if ($req) echo " (required)"; ?></small></label></p>with:
<p><input type="text" name="email" class="text_input" id="email" value="" size="22" tabindex="2" /> <label for="email"><small><?php _e('Mail (will not be published)','habitat'); if ($req) echo " (required)"; ?></small></label></p>Posted 2 years ago # -
Carsten
MemberI guess you are talking about this line....
<p><input type="text" name="url" class="text_input" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="22" tabindex="3" />
<label for="url"><small><?php _e('Website','habitat'); ?></small></label></p>But this is not a good solution because now there is nothing that tells us that this field is for the website-URL.
The field is just empty. See here: http://www.notopia.net/blog/1924/social-entrepreneur#respondIsn't there a better solution?
Thanks!
Posted 2 years ago # -
Hey,
just replace
<p><input type="text" name="url" class="text_input" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="22" tabindex="3" /> <label for="url"><small><?php _e('Website','habitat'); ?></small></label></p>with:
<p><input type="text" name="url" class="text_input" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="22" tabindex="3" /> <label for="url"><small><?php _e('Website','habitat'); ?></small></label></p> <?php if ( $comment_author_url == 'Website' ) { $comment_author_url = '';} ?>This should keep the "website" value for the form field but delete it afterwards in the background if nothing was inserted in the website field...
Posted 2 years ago # -
Carsten
MemberThis does not work unfortunately.
This operation has to be done in the script that processes the post (wp-comments-post.php).
But this is a core-script. So I don't want to change it.Do you have any idea how to do it?
What strikes me: I translated "E-Mail-Adresse" into German. If no mail is entered, no value is saved. Why does it work with the mail and not with the url?
Thank you very much!
Posted 2 years ago # -
Damn...I didn't test the code but I thought it would do what you wan't...(because it changes the value of the variable before the post/get php code)
Yes you're right after all - the last solution is to modify the core files. I didn't look into it but I think the reason why the email field behaves different is because WP checks the input (i.e. if a "@" symbol exists, valid e-mail adress structure, etc.) - obviously the website field doesn't support this validation function.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Hey,
In the short term you can modify the comments link by editing the comment in WP Admin.
I'll look into why this isn't working and hopefully provide a long term solution.
James
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