Comments on: Hijacking WordPress Internationalisation

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:10:37 +0000

Paul, thanks for the moment of clarity!
Of course it has to do with setting the priority for the init action! *slaps head*

Thanks also for the add_entry() tidbit, I’ll look into that!

By: Paul Gibbs

Paul Gibbs — Fri, 14 May 2010 06:18:31 +0000

For Welcome Pack's email feature, I use the above technique and have it hooked in like so: add_action( 'init', 'dpw_load_dynamic_i18n', 9 ); Have a look dpw_load_dynamic_i18n() in Welcome Pack's core.php. It is a bit hard to read as there's a pair of nested FOR loops, but would suggest you use MO->add_entry() etc rather than write directly to the arrays. I think I switched to doing that after I wrote the above post.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 14 May 2010 05:18:44 +0000

Hey Paul,

Was meaning to reply to this the other day, but got sidetracked!
Just tried it and it does what I want it to do, except for one instance.

I’m trying to override a string that BP uses on an AJAX request (in my case, when a private message is sent, BP outputs a message).

I’ve tried overriding the string by hooking into the “init” action, but not sure if this is the correct action I should be hooking into.

Here’s the full function:

function ray_override_l10n() { global $l10n;


	$mo = new MO();
	$l10n['buddypress'] = &$mo;
	if ( isset( $l10n['buddypress'] ) ) {

		$l10n['buddypress']->entries['There was an error sending that message, please try again']->translations[0] = 'You are not friends with the person(s) you are attempting to send a message to.  Your message has not been sent.';

$l10n['buddypress']->entries['There was a problem sending that reply. Please try again.']->translations[0] = 'You are not friends with the person(s) you are attempting to send a message to. Your message has not been sent.'; } } add_action( 'init', 'ray_override_l10n' );

Any ideas?