https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-translation-files-to-create-japanese-version Gravity Support Forums Topic: Need translation files to create Japanese version en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:07:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-translation-files-to-create-japanese-version#post-67981 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:57:17 +0000 Chris Hajer 67981@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Very cool. Thanks for posting those resources and we're glad you were able to resolve the issue. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-translation-files-to-create-japanese-version#post-67929 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:08:50 +0000 nzerinto 67929@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Understood. I figured it out - the damn language files hadn't been installed - they had been in a previous version of the site, but the old server crashed and the server company didn't make nightly backups (my mistake for trusting them), so after restoring from a pretty old backup of the DB (didn't backup files), this part was missed during the restoration.<br /> Am installing language files now, and am much more informed of the whole process. For anyone else viewing this conversation in the future, this link is pretty helpful as well:</p> <p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-translation-files-to-create-japanese-version#post-67923 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:52:26 +0000 Chris Hajer 67923@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>OK. Glad you figured that out.</p> <p>The WP_LANG constant needs to be defined in wp-config.php and match the naming of your plugin .mo files for the translation to work. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-translation-files-to-create-japanese-version#post-67921 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:49:38 +0000 nzerinto 67921@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Never mind, found this post which is kinda helpful: </p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/multi-language-translation-capabilities" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/multi-language-translation-capabilities</a></p> <p>and a link off to an external site, showing how to do the whole translation process:</p> <p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/27/localizing-a-wordpress-plugin-using-poedit/" rel="nofollow">http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/27/localizing-a-wordpress-plugin-using-poedit/</a></p> <p>Also found out the translation should take effect if the site is IN the language translated. I thought the site I was working on was in Japanese, as Japanese characters are appearing all over the backend, but I guess not..... </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-translation-files-to-create-japanese-version#post-67920 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:43:44 +0000 Chris Hajer 67920@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>What did you call the .mo file (filename) and can you post a link to it on your server please, so we can see that it's in the correct location? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-translation-files-to-create-japanese-version#post-67918 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:41:54 +0000 nzerinto 67918@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Ok, that's more complicated than I thought. I'm surprised you guys don't have a walk-through to briefly explain how to do the translation - I think a lot more people would do it if there was a guide.<br /> Anyway, followed your instructions, but it's still not showing.</p> <p>After copying the .MO file to the gravityforms directory (not the "Languages" sub directory, right?), is there anything else I need to do? I thought I might have had the naming convention wrong, but I'm pretty sure I tested every possible combination, and it's not working. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-translation-files-to-create-japanese-version#post-67451 Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:34:16 +0000 Chris Hajer 67451@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Please explain the procedure you used for getting this to work. Maybe we can see where you have missed a step.</p> <p>After your create your .Mo file using the translation tool of your choice (<a href="http://www.poedit.net/" rel="nofollow">Poedit</a> is a commonly used tool) you need to name it properly, and save it in the wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/ directory. I'm not completely certain of the name, but it will look something like this (the name of the plugin needs to be included in the name, but I'm unsure of the actual "ja" part.):</p> <p>gravityforms-<strong>ja</strong>.mo</p> <p>Reference here:<br /> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-translation-files-to-create-japanese-version#post-67448 Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:01:31 +0000 nzerinto 67448@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>To test it out we made the changes, but they aren't showing up on the live site. Is there a step by step on getting the translation files to show up? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-translation-files-to-create-japanese-version#post-67431 Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:32:14 +0000 Chris Hajer 67431@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thank you for taking a shot at it. I checked with the developers though and we're going to try and make all the existing translations available. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/need-translation-files-to-create-japanese-version#post-67429 Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:22:36 +0000 nzerinto 67429@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Ok got it. Never done this before so might be interesting, but we'll see how we go.<br /> To be honest I won't translate the whole thing as my Japanese is atrocious, but I do have a lot of Japanese friends so I'll see if they can help</p> <p>Cheers! </p>