Can be used to translate hardcoded texts in your theme, using locale files. It expects that you to put a .yml (YAML) file for each language of your site in the locales folder locales. So if your site support dutch supports Dutch and englishEnglish, you should have the following files:
| Code Block |
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locales/nl.yml locales/en.yml |
These files can then contain translations in an arbitrary , given that you keep the same data structure. For example:
locales/nl.yml
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footer:
heading: "Welkom bij de footer"
served_by_plate: "Deze website wordt geserveerd door Plate"
contacts:
phone: "Telefoon"
email: "Email" |
locales/en.yml
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footer:
heading: "Welcome to the footer"
served_by_plate: "This site is served by Plate"
contacts:
phone: "Phone"
email: "Email" |
When these files are in place, you can use the translate filter as follows.
On the dutch Dutch version of the site:
Input:
| Code Block |
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{{ "footer.heading" | translate }}
{{ "footer.contacts.phone" | translate }} |
Output:
| Code Block |
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Welkom bij de footer Telefoon |
On the english English version of the site:
Input:
| Code Block |
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{{ "footer.heading" | translate }}
{{ "footer.contacts.phone" | translate }} |
Output:
| Code Block |
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Welcome to the footer Phone |