In a WordPress theme I’m developing, I registered a custom post type called 'Project' as follows.
function add_custom_post_type() {
register_post_type( 'project',
array(
'label' => __( 'Projects', 'maria' ),
'labels' => array(
'name' => _x( 'Projects', 'post type general name', 'maria' ),
'singular_name' => _x( 'Project', 'post type singular name', 'maria' ),
'menu_name' => _x( 'Projects', 'admin menu', 'maria' ),
'name_admin_bar' => _x( 'Project', 'add new on admin bar', 'maria' ),
'add_new' => _x( 'Add New', 'project', 'maria' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Project', 'maria' ),
'new_item' => __( 'New Project', 'maria' ),
'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Project', 'maria' ),
'view_item' => __( 'View Project', 'maria' ),
'all_items' => __( 'All Projects', 'maria' ),
'search_items' => __( 'Search Projects', 'maria' ),
'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Projects:', 'maria' ),
'not_found' => __( 'No Projects found.', 'maria' ),
'not_found_in_trash' => __( 'No Projects found in Trash.', 'maria' )
),
'public' => true,
'menu_position' => 5,
'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'thumbnail' ),
'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => __( 'project' ))
)
);
}
add_action( 'init', 'add_custom_post_type' );
Using the app Poedit, I am now trying to translate the labels of my custom post type to German. I am importing the functions/keywords __,_e and _x. The strings show up as expected.
https://abload.de/img/screenshot2019-09-29av4jhv.png (Screenshot)
However, upon translating my .po file and compiling the .mo file for WordPress localization, WordPress only seems to honor the translations I input for the __ and _e functions while ignoring the _x functions.
https://abload.de/img/screenshot2019-09-29ah7jxx.png (Screenshot)
In my dashboard, the Projects and Add New buttons still show up in English despite having been translated to Projekte and Erstellen respectively.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks very much in advance.
Okay, while I couldn’t solve the problem of WordPress not honoring the translations for _x functions, I got the labels to display correctly by using the following workaround.
In my register_post_type function, I changed all _x functions to __ functions (removing the context argument in the process). Final working code below:
function add_custom_post_type() {
register_post_type( 'project',
array(
'label' => __( 'Projects', 'maria' ),
'labels' => array(
'name' => __( 'Projects', 'maria' ),
'singular_name' => __( 'Project', 'maria' ),
'menu_name' => __( 'Projects', 'maria' ),
'name_admin_bar' => __( 'Project', 'maria' ),
'add_new' => __( 'Add New', 'maria' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Project', 'maria' ),
'new_item' => __( 'New Project', 'maria' ),
'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Project', 'maria' ),
'view_item' => __( 'View Project', 'maria' ),
'all_items' => __( 'All Projects', 'maria' ),
'search_items' => __( 'Search Projects', 'maria' ),
'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Projects:', 'maria' ),
'not_found' => __( 'No Projects found.', 'maria' ),
'not_found_in_trash' => __( 'No Projects found in Trash.', 'maria' )
),
'public' => true,
'menu_position' => 5,
'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'thumbnail' ),
'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => __( 'project' ))
)
);
}
add_action( 'init', 'add_custom_post_type' );