HOW TO for s2member language translation

Hi, I just installed s2member and since my site is in Romanian, I wanted to change the login form fields from English. I searched and found really complex explanations. I’m not a very technical person, but I did solve the problem.

1. Download and install Poedit from here.
2. Download either the free or the paid s2member zip for WordPress and look in s2memberincludestranslations. There’s a file there called s2member.pot. If you have MS Office, it’ll look like a Powerpoint file. Extract it to your desktop or whatever.
3. Open up Poedit and open the .poT file (choose open all files in the bottom right of the menu, since it only sees .po files) that you just extracted. It’ll ask you to change something in the header, ignore it. It’s a dead simple, you just have to translate each sentence or term, minding the %values.
4. Hit Save when you’re done. It’ll save next to your original .pot file as a .mo file.
5. Rename the s2member.mo file to s2member-LOCALE.mo, where locale, in my case, for Romanian is ro_RO, so it’ll be s2member-ro_RO.mo. Find your locale here on the right.
6. Upload the new .mo file to your wordpress site in /wp-content/plugins/. Hit ctrl-F5 on your login screen and voila!

So just put in your translation where it says here in horrible mouse-writing :)

• This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by  Mihnea Dumitru.
• This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by  Mihnea Dumitru.
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Thanks for this guide Mihnea! I sticked it in this sub-forum, so that users will get to notice it. ;)

We appreciate this kind of post, really saves us a lot of questions to answer, that is, to people that check these forums every day to see what they can answer… Like me! :P

– Eduan

Thanks for that.

I do exactly that and it is working so far with 3 languages and qtranslate as language selector.
For each language I created the .mo file and put it in the
wp-content/plugins/

Works so far.

BUT :)

Ther is one field which is displayed always in the Word Press Standard Language, which is the
“Your Profile” on the Paypal Pro Forms.

Any way to change this.

Further question is, where to change the Email Text for the User notifications ?

Thanks a lot ….

it might be in the php… you might also change to see if changing the wordpress installation language will change that, in which case, it links to the wordpress text and then it’s a bit easier.

as for the email text, it’s in the s2member options, you can customize any type of user notifications via email, afaik. all mine are in Romanian from day one, changed through the admin interface.

Hi,

thanks, probably I am blind. I went trough all the admin parts and do not find the Notification Emails.

About the “Your Profile”, it must come from the mo file, because when I change the translation in German (which is the WordPress standard language) it changes also on the Form, but it does not affect the other languages as english and spanish? Any Idea?

Thanks again :)

i’ve changed most of the text in the frontend to romanian and also changed the s2member > general options > email configuration. that’s pretty much it.

Found the notification Email, but the other Problem still is there …. so maybe i have to search a Word that everyone understands :)

Greetings,

Has anybody translated these files in German and would be willing to share them with me?

I have been asked by a friend and would like to help, but am not good in this kind of stuff.

It would be nice…

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