Guide to activate a language not listed in Qtranslate
In another of our posts, let's talk about this plugin Qtranslate for WordPress that allows us to add content in different languages to our website or blog.
Once installed, and even though it comes with more than a dozen preconfigured languages, The language you need may not be available in the list so you cannot activate it, unless you add that new language.
For this, access your WordPress administration panel, in Settings -> Languages and you will see some fields where you will only have to enter the following data (click on each tab to see the instructions for these two languages Catalan and Russian):
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- Language code: ca
- Bandera: ca.alt.png
- Name: Catalan
- Local: en_CA
- Close format: %A %d of %B of %Y
- time format :%H:%M
- Message not available: we are sorry, this content is only available in %LANG:, : i %.
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Once introduced, if everything has gone well, enter “advanced settings” -> “Date Conversion / Time” check the option “Use strftime instead of date.”
Now all that remains is to download and upload the language files (Catalan) in the folder where WordPress stores them (wp-content/languages). You can download the language files in Catalan from the website http://ca.wordpress.org/. You will only have to copy the files that are inside that folder in the indicated direction..
Finally, you must change the name of the file that ends in “ca” by “en_CA” which is the same name that we have given in the field “Local”. It is important that the ending of the file match, with the value that we have entered in Local since otherwise, won't work.
From this moment on you will have the Catalan language available to activate in your WordPress administration space.[/tab] [tab]
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- Language code: ru
- Bandera: ru.png
- Name: Russian
- Regional Settings: ru_RU
- Close format:.% D% M.% Y
- Time format:% I.% M.% p
- Not Available Message: Sorry, this page is only available on %LANG:, : And %.
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now in “advanced settings” -> “Date Conversion / Time” check the option “Use strftime instead of date.”
Like the example in Catalan, All that remains is to download and upload the language files (Russian) in the folder where WordPress stores them (wp-content/languages). You can download the language files in Russian from the website http://ru.wordpress.org/. You will only have to copy the files that are inside that folder in the indicated direction..
From this moment you will have the language available to activate in your WordPress administration space
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If during the installation of a new language any problems have arisen, “Gettext” or it doesn't let you activate the new language because a message appears indicating that it is already active, look at this other one article our solutions to these errors.