Comments on: WordPress LTR/RTL

By: Mahfoodh Al Jufaily

Mahfoodh Al Jufaily — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:15:00 +0000

Al salam Alaikum Nabil,
I spent almost half a day searching for this solutions. thanks a million times for this tip. However minor correction the xx_XY.php needs to be save under /wp-includes/languages/ instead of /wp-content/languages folder.

I wrote the following condition in my themes header file to output the content in the RTL direction:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rtler/ to generate rtl.css for any theme.

I also used [qTranslate] and [Codestyling Localization] plugins to aid in the translation and localization of themes and other plugins.

Regards,
MAD

By: Nabil

Nabil — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:18:28 +0000

I face the same issue too because I write in Arabic (RTL), what I do while writing a new theme is:
- I write 3 css file, style.css – for direction neutral css properties like colors, widths, fonts, etc… style-rtl.css and style-ltr.css for direction specific css declarations like padding-right, margin-left, borders, etc, the last two files will have the exact number of line but each property will be defined differently in each file.
- I make sure that xy_XY.php is present in my XY language directory if the language I use (Arabic in my case) is an RTL language.

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:14:35 +0000

Hi Nabil,
Thank you for providing support to us misrepresented rtl folks.
I am working with farsi and english and sometimes there is a lot
more that text-direction needed for farsi pages. I made different
css files for each language. I was wondering about the best way
to load them up. I have tried loading each css based on current
language, which is determined by a qtranslate function:
if(qtrans_getLanguage()==’en’):

My code is not working but I’m wondering if this is a good practice.
Is this function being fired off before everything else? If you think
this should work, this is the code I have in the header so far:

if(qtrans_getLanguage()=='en'): //check the language
echo 'this is "eng"';
echo '’;
else if (qtrans_getLanguage()==’fa’):
echo ‘this is fa mofa!”;
echo ”;
?>

I tried manual link, or using my themes bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’) but nothing
shows to this point.

I appreciate any suggestion.
http://www.manArtGallery.com

By: irfan

irfan — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:50:22 +0000

Just found a work around. I installed a plugin called ‘Admin in English’, which solved my problem. Thanks anyways.

By: irfan

irfan — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:15:29 +0000

Thanks a ton Nabeel for a quick reply.
When I created the folders in my language, and defined the language in config.php; the admin panel also got translated in the language I set.
Is there a way I can use the admin panel in English while using the language of my choice for posts?

Thanks.

By: Nabil

Nabil — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:04:10 +0000

The languages directory is not available on the default installation (English), you can create it manually and add your languages .po and .mo files, then you can change the language of your wordpress installation by modifying the constant WP_LANG on wp-config.php like this:

define ('WPLANG', 'xy_XY');

References:
WordPress in your language
Installing WordPress in your language

By: irfan

irfan — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 03:32:21 +0000

Nabil, I am writing both in English and Urdu (RTL) in my blog. But language folder is missing from my WordPress install. How do I set my language preferences?
A reply will be highly appreciated.

Thanks
Irfan

By: Nabil

Nabil — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:01:08 +0000

Yes, this is right, assuming that your theme is optimized for both RTL and LTR.

By: Al

Al — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:15:46 +0000

So does this mean I can have both english and arabic posts in my blog and the arabic posts will switch to RTL automatically based on the custom field?

By: Nabil

Nabil — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:22:59 +0000

You can add this to the beginning of your index.php file or in the functions.php if you have one.


 
  $custom_fields = get_post_custom(/* Current Post */);
  if($custom_fields['switch'] === 'RTL'){
    $text_direction = "rtl";    
  }
 
?>