Editing terms

[artreus]

I want to edit some of the terms in XFWP/lib/strings.php (eg "Join the...")

How can I do this but without it being over-written when plugin is updated?

 

[Alex]

You can edit all strings that appear on the frontend via WP admin > XFtoWP > Edit Strings.

Otherwise I recommend you follow this guide for other options:

How to translate XFtoWP into any language

XFtoWP is build according to WordPress translation standards which makes it possible for anyone to translate the text strings in the plugin to any language. You can see the list of available languages…

xftowp.com

 

[artreus]

Woops, missing that somehow!

 

[Alex]

It would be simple to have a filter function to override existing strings. The Poedit route is thorough but a simple override filter for changing phrases might be nice.

 

[artreus]

Hi @Alex when will you be fixing the HTML parsing thingee in the strings?

 

[Alex]

Hi @Alex when will you be fixing the HTML parsing thingee in the strings?

Should be fixed in XFtoWP 1.5.2 beta!

Version 1.5.2 has been out for nearly a week so I am going to mark it stable either later today or this weekend. Based on the lack of bug reports and multiple successful use cases for the new features, there are no pending differences between XFtoWP 1.5.2 beta (current) and the impending stable release.

If you want to use it now you can install the 1.5.2 beta version to be able to properly save the HTML into text strings. Once marked stable it will be available through the one-click plugin updater.

By the way, I mentioned this a few posts ago:

It would be simple to have a filter function to override existing strings. The Poedit route is thorough but a simple override filter for changing phrases might be nice.

...instead of using a translation plugin, the xfwp_strings filter has now been updated so you can override text strings on the fly from a child theme or anywhere you place your PHP code snippets.

A translation plugin may offer a more guided experience, but this filter is fast and easy to use. An example if you wanted to translate the create_thread_success and custom_fields strings from the strings.php file:

/**
 * Modify XFtoWP Plugin strings.
 *
 * @since 1.0
 */

function child_theme_xftowp_strings( $strings ) {
    $strings['create_thread_success'] = 'Edited translation';
    $strings['custom_fields'] = 'Edited translation';
    return $strings;
}

add_filter( 'xfwp_strings', 'child_theme_xftowp_strings' );

Hope this is useful.

 

[artreus]

The functions.php code is great and is parsing my HTML correctly. Thanks!

 

[artreus]

FYI the functions.php code stopped working in the update released today. I rolled back the plugin version.

 

[Alex]

FYI the functions.php code stopped working in the update released today. I rolled back the plugin version.

What do you mean by not working, is the filter just being ignored?

 

[artreus]

The filter was not working and I also believe some of the CSS changed? Custom design changes I made were lost.

 

[Alex]

If you made any edits to the plugin they will be lost during updates as all XFtoWP files are overwritten. The standard way is to add your code into a child theme functions.php file, and an accompanying style.css file for any CSS edits you make.

 

[artreus]

Thanks, yes I do that. All edits are made to child theme.