Hello,
I bought your theme, which I think is great, under this pretense: http://screencast.com/t/1AVUxGnp
Now, I would find it really hard to believe that you do not know how to configure your Theme to work 100% with WPML in this day and age (April 2015), or that you do not own WPML and have not tested it with it.
Your Theme offers a basic “Translation” help in Theme Panel. — So, when WPML picks up String Lines across the website, you can translate them in the backend, but these translations then don’t show in the front-end. Still, WPML picks them up, so it means WPML is doing its job…but your Theme is blocking front-end display of translations and overriding them with your Theme Control “Translation” help, which is empty. (This means this information you provided is false: http://screencast.com/t/928QuPRfAO )
To test this, I used your Theme Control “Translation” help, and these translations DO show in the front end…but they are permanent, no way to turn back to English. This means somehow, your code is forcing the theme to only show what is inputted in your Theme Control “Translations” page.
At this time… Can you please tell me what configurations I must make to disable all of your Translation help and remove it from code? Where can I find all the code and what should I delete without damaging Theme? I truly believe this will make WPML work with your Newspaper Theme.
I will appreciate your help with this matter. Thank you!
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(( I wish you would simply get rid of your “Translation” help from your theme. It is useless and it is making your theme lose value for buyers who want to use WPML. ))
Hi,
We really do not own a version of WPML and we didn’t do any test with it yet, the theme was tested with qTranslate.
The theme uses a custom function for translations – http://screencast.com/t/2CXTVDmk5c
You may try to replace it in the theme with the one used by WPML, unfortunately i cannot say exactly what WPML uses so i cannot provide a precise solution to this, you can also try to ask about it on their forum.
If you can’t find a solution to this i can offer a refund.
Thank you, Emil G.
It is very unfortunate that there is no desire on your part to find a solution to this since WPML is so widespread. I truly wish your attitude about the problem was different.
I believe by looking at all issues that if your Theme had no “Translations” options built-in (which are truly not helpful at all), that almost all Translation plugins would work with it, including WPML. You have tried to reach too much…into areas that you were unwilling to develop properly, and give the appearance that all the options were worth more $$…but in the end, your theme actually loses value. And when support questions come in, the answers are very dismissive and no willingness is shown to truly abate the issue.
Well, I truly wish I could use yor theme…I will try to see a bit longer if solution can be found…without your help.
Hi,
We’re sorry about this. Please note that we are currently working on a different translation system based on .po .mo files which will come with theme already translated in several common languages (via theme panel, .po .mo are also provided). All this will be available from theme version no 5 and this changes should also make the theme work with other translation plugins.
Sorry for all the trouble, please let us know of your decision on this.
Thanks
