@Steve – Hi there,

I’m making a website in French, and using a frontend contact form with Piklist.
I saw that the validation strings weren’t translated.

Long story short, I made a french .po file, but in order for it to work I have to override the plugin’s piklist-fr_FR.mo file. Which we will agree, is not a good way to do as on next update my changes will be lost.
So I came across a solution to allow the language files to be overriden if you put the mo file in wp_content/languages/piklist/:

In the file class-piklist.php

 
    // loads the user's file
    $domain = 'piklist';
    $mo_file = WP_LANG_DIR . '/' . $domain . '/' . $domain . '-' . get_locale() . '.mo';
    load_textdomain( $domain, $mo_file );
    // loads the plugin's file
    load_plugin_textdomain('piklist', false, 'piklist/languages/');

I thought it could be quite useful to some users.

Thanks again for an amazing plugin + support!

Marc.

I’m using v0.9.9.7. I also checked from the trunk download to be sure and it seems to be the latest version?

The string is translatable, but the file piklist-fr_FR.mo doesn’t seem to have a full translation (also it weights 5kb against 32kb for the Spanish version).
Which is ok of course, I know you guys are working hard to get v1 soon and probably don’t speak all the languages on Earth :).

What I tried is to put my own piklist-fr_FR.mo in wp_content/languages/ to avoid overriding it in wp_content/plugins/piklist/languages/, which would be bad practice I think :).

Which is what the load_textdomain( 'piklist', WP_LANG_DIR . '/piklist/piklist' . '-' . get_locale() . '.mo' ); allows.

@Steve

What I’m also suggesting through that is to add flexibility to users who would like their own translated strings.
Because Piklist will have such a broad range of usage, there will probably be people who would rather use their own translated string instead of the default one.
But it’s only a suggestion.

I’ll look into this link, I’ll gladly help.

Well I should say it allow it when you insert it just before the line
load_plugin_textdomain('piklist', false, 'piklist/languages/');