Hello Scott,

I am really sorry but unfortunately right now EasyBlog does not support Falang

Hello Mark,

No problem, Falang supports EasyBlog, even if you do not support Falang...
It works well helping to create translations.

But since you do not support Falang no problem, let us solve this problem without Falang: ........

Can you tell me how I can translate the two fields that I mentioned above: BLOG TITLE AND BLOG DESCRIPTION ? You give an option for each blog post to select the language, so how can we do this for the title and description as well?

If you do not provide an option for having multiple languages for the blog title and description, please consider this as BUG. And if you have no option within EasyBlog to enter different translations, can you give me the steps to find these fields in the Joomla Overrides area possibly? Or provide me with the file where these fields would be located in the Italian language files so I can make these translations.

I will most likely leave my blog name the same regardless of language, but the description MUST be translated. Thanks for the support.

Regards
Scott

Hello Scott,

Sorry for the late reply. Actually there is a way to do this. First please enter the desired blog title and blog description language string in your backend EasyBlog settings. For example it can be

COM_EASYBLOG_MYBLOGTITLE
COM_EASYBLOG_MYBLOGDESC

Then add these to your backend language override for each language. For English

COM_EASYBLOG_MYBLOGTITLE="My English Blog Title Here"
COM_EASYBLOG_MYBLOGDESC="My English Blog Desc Here"

and for other languages

COM_EASYBLOG_MYBLOGTITLE="My Other Language Blog Title Here"
COM_EASYBLOG_MYBLOGDESC="My Other Language Blog Desc Here"

This way the blog title will be translated Hope this helps.

Thanks!

Hi Adelene,

Can you walk me through how I can create the strings in my backend settings? You are giving me 3 steps above - I am stuck on 1st step.. Where in settings can I enter these language strings and how do I do it? Thanks for your help.

Hello Scott,

Sorry for the late reply. On the first step, you can enter the values in the backend -> EasyBlog -> Settings -> Workflow -> General. Here you will find the fields to enter the "Blog title" and "Blog description". Then head over to backend -> Extensions -> Language Manager -> Overrides. Here you can perform steps 2 and 3. Hope this helps.

Thanks!

Hello Adelene,

I can not find the language strings to enter my italian overrides in the language manager. Please see attached screen shot.. I have already created Blog Title and Blog Description as you mention in your last post. I need to know the Language Constant Names for the my Blog Title and Blog Description:

English Blog Title:
Constant = COM_EASYBLOG_?????........ ; Value = "Salamastra Blog"

English Blog Description:
Constant = COM_EASYBLOG_?????.... ; Value = "News, updates, and product features from our shop in Gallipoli, Italy."

I need to know the correct names of these Constants in order to create overrides in Italian Language. I can not find these two language strings. Please give me the correct names and instructions where to find them... keep searching and can not find them... thanks.

Regards
Scott

Hello Scott,

Since EasyBlog does not have it as translated by default, you need to define your own. You can set the title value to COM_EASYBLOG_SALAMASTRA_BLOG_TITLE and description to COM_EASYBLOG_SALAMASTRA_BLOG_DESC and then, add both of these strings into your language override

COM_EASYBLOG_SALAMASTRA_BLOG_TITLE="Salamastra Blog"

COM_EASYBLOG_SALAMASTRA_BLOG_DESC="Some description here"

Thanks Mark for the followup

Given that I am not a professional site developer, rather a shop owner with limited experience, can you please provide for me the file name and path where I must add these two new lines of code? And if there is a specific place [line] where they should be added as well. Thanks for your help

Scott

Hello,

Please go to the file

JOOMLA/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_easyblog.ini

and add the entries to the bottom of the file. Thanks!

Hello Scott,

First, you need to add COM_EASYBLOG_SALAMASTRA_BLOG_TITLE in the blog title field: http://screencast.com/t/Xdmh3dl7ub9 (Same goes to blog description) . Then you might want to add it in here: http://screencast.com/t/tTshjZE9BqIZ based on your language. Hope this helps.

thanks all for help. But now a bit confused... You are saying that I need to follow all steps suggested by each of you above in order?:

Mark
Adelene
Nick


I thought I understood Mark and Adelene's comments, but now Nick's have me confused as I thought I needed to enter the english titles i.e. "Salamastra's Blog" in the fields on the settings page. If I enter instead the language string constant name, where do I enter in the english value that you show in second screen shot? Is this from results of Mark and Adelene's steps that I must also do?

Thanks

Hello Scott,

We have all suggested the same work around if you want to translate the blog title and description

If you are using the english language file, copy the codes into /language/en-GB/en-GB.com_easyblog.ini

Sorry,

this explaining is not only confused its also wrong. If i put the strings on the right places in easyblog workflow and the same in override on joomla language and in the .ini file, than it come an error "saving not possible".

I ask me if everything in easyblog is translated by .ini files, why for this simple things i must do a round trip.

Also categories is translated. But in related posts after the titel, the categories not translated.

So many people say some things. So maybe it is possible thats we can explain the way how we can translate the blog title and discription in one post here for everybody. So maybe with right screenshots.

greetings paul

Hello Paul,

Can you kindly please start a new thread and let us know what you want to achieve here? I believe what you are trying to achieve is entirely different than this post Anyway I would appreciate that if you could start a new thread and let us know the following:

1. What you'd like to achieve
2. Your site's access and FTP so that we can add a sample for you to begin with.