[OJS 3.1.2.1] Change locale strings of .po files with child theme

twa · December 16, 2020, 2:36pm

@NateWr
In 2013 you published a defaultChild, which was quite useful. There you showed how to change texts in locales:

NateWr/defaultChild/blob/master/locale/en_US/locale.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE locale SYSTEM "../../../../../lib/pkp/dtd/locale.dtd">

<!--
  * plugins/themes/defaultChild/locale/en_US/locale.xml
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2014-2016 Simon Fraser University Library
  * Copyright (c) 2003-2016 John Willinsky
  * Distributed under the GNU GPL v2. For full terms see the file docs/COPYING.
  *
  * Localization strings
  -->

<locale name="en_US" full_name="U.S. English">
	<message key="plugins.themes.defaultChild.name">Example Child Theme</message>
	<message key="plugins.themes.defaultChild.description">This theme is an example of a child theme of the default theme.</message>
</locale>

Now we have .po files for the locale strings. How can I change locale strings within the child theme now?

Thanks
Tobias

NateWr · December 16, 2020, 3:17pm

Hi @twa,

Here’s an example of a theme using a .po file: bootstrap3/locale.po at master · NateWr/bootstrap3 · GitHub.

There’s a tool available that will convert your .xml file to a .po file. Read about it in the 3.2 Release Notebook.

twa · December 16, 2020, 4:36pm

Can I still overwrite values inside a Child theme? Let’s say I want to update-proof overwrite msgid "submission.submit.whatNext.description" within the Child Theme? How does the .po file look like? The header and only the single msgid/msgstr, that need’s to be fixed?

NateWr · December 16, 2020, 5:19pm

Hmm, I suspect it would depend on the load order. Are you on 3.1 or 3.2? If you’re on 3.2, I’d recommend using the Custom Locale plugin, which is available in the plugin gallery for 3.2+.