wp-andreas09 (l10n Version)

This is a localizable version of Ainslie Johnson’s wp-andreas09 theme.
There are no changes to the layout, but every text which could be displayed to the user can now be translated by changing a single file. So it is not necessary any more to change any theme file for a translation into a different language.

Download: wp-andreas09-l10n.zip

Localization:

• English – default by Ainslie Johnson
• Deutsch – provided by myself, Tim Zylinski
• Czech – by Calaf
• Hungarian – by Dragomán György
• Spanish – by NeiL
• Malay – by Ameyr Pippo
• Norwegian nynorsk – by Eivind Ødegård

Feel free to send me your language files. I would appreciate to include them in this list.

Creating your own language file:
First you should learn about the Wordpress translation mechanism: Translating Wordpress

Then grab a tool of you choice (poEdit, KBabel, etc.) to create a translation using the included .pot file.

Save and/or create a .mo file. This file must be saved with the filename of the ISO-639 language code of your target language. E.g. de_DE.mo, en_EN.mo, pt_BR.mo, …

Put this .mo file in your theme directory. Make sure, that the filename matches the WPLANG value in your wp-config.php file. Otherwise Wordpress will not use your language file.

Done!
(And don’t forget to send me your translation )

Notes:

• Based on “WP-Andreas09 Theme for WordPress 2.0″ Version 1.5 by Ainslie Johnson. Footer Fix applied.
• Identified 99 locations of strings which can be translated.
• Added calls to load_theme_textdomain() in header.php and functions.php
• Added credits

I learned a lot about localization with gettext and the internals of wordpress. You can read a short summary of my findings here: Wordpress Themes lokalisieren (in german)

Update 02/02/06
Applied the fix for a little bug in the original theme by Ainslie Johnson to this version of the theme. The ZIP file contains the latest version.

Update 03/02/06
Little fix in archive.php. The date was not translated. To update your installation, you just need to replace that file.

Update 03/23/06
Added the hungarian localization file.

Update 04/19/06
Added the spanish localization file.

Update 10/04/06
Added the malay localization file.

Update 04/15/09
Added the Norwegian nynorsk localization file.