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Translation & RTL

  • UrbanNews is a WMPL compatible and multi-language ready theme. To translate this theme:

    • Download and install this tool POEdit
    • Open POEdit and load [/urbannews/languages/urbannews.po]
    • Translate the text and save the file
    • A file named urbannews.mo is created. Save it in /urbannews/languages/ folder. Rename it with Code Name of your language. For example, de_DE.mo for German – Deutsche. See language code list herehttp://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language
    • (For WordPress 3.x)Open [{wordpress root}/wp_config.php] and find this line define(‘WPLANG’, ”);. Change it with your language code, for example define(‘WPLANG’, ‘de_DE’);
    • (For WordPress 4.x) Go to Settings > General and change your site language

     

  • UrbanNews also supports RTL – Right To Left languages. If your language is RTL, go to Appearance > Theme Options > General > RTL mode and check Enable RTL