WordPress in Estonian
(Eestikeelne leht on siin)
Last changes: December 24, 2008.
This is the home page of Estonian translation of WordPress 2.x.
Translation of the earlier 1.5 series can be found
at [L] Duke's website.
Translated by Kaido Kikkas.
Download
Let's start with the most important thing - the package can be downloaded here:
What does the package contain?
WP 2.x main environment (/wp-content/languages/et.mo)
default Kubrick theme (/wp-content/themes/default-et/)
Note: TinyMCE that was part of the translation is not added anymore
since WordPress 2.5 as it is included in themain translation now. It
remains included in the WP 2.2 and 2.3 packages however.
Installation
- Step 1: Put the package to the root directory of a Wordpress installation
and unpack it.
- Step 2: Locate the file wp-config.php in the same directory
and open it in an editor. Find the row
define ('WPLANG', ''); and replace empty apostrophes with
'et', i.e. define ('WPLANG',
'et');.
- Step 3: Log in to the WordPress admin
interface, open the theme management menu and change the theme to
WordPress Default (Estonian).
- Step 4: Go to the Plugins menu in the admin interface and
turn on the plugin Header Image
Rotator (see below for more details).
- Step 5: There is no Step 5. :D Well, hopefully - all the necessary
files
should go to their proper places in the unpacking process.
What does the install do
- adds the Estonian translation
file et.mo to the wp-content/languages
directory
- adds the translated default theme default-et to the
wp-content/themes directory
- adds Estonian translation files et.js to various langs directories
found in the TinyMCE subdirectory
- wp-includes/js/tinymce (only WP versions older than 2.5)
- replaces the tiny_mce_gzip.php in the TinyMCE root
directory with a version with Estonian as default
language (change in row # 41; only WP versions older than 2.5)
- adds the header-image-rotator to the
wp-content/plugins directory, creates the
wp-content/header-images directory and copies the original
kubrickheader.jpg header into it.
Changing the header
The Wordpress 2.x default Kubrick theme (which is also used for the
default Estonian theme in this package) contains a bug that does not
allow changing the header image. Replacing the
kubrickheader.jpg in the
wp-content/themes/default-et/images does not work.
The workaround is to use the Header Image Rotator plugin by Matthew
Hough ([L] http://www.mhough.com) which is originally meant
to swap header
images on the run but can equally well be used to display a single
image. The package contains and installs the plugin (version 1.1 - see
the website above for future upgrades!) and the user should just turn it
on during the install.
The plugin is located in
wp-content/plugins/header-image-rotator and the
header image(s) go to wp-content/header-images. By default, it
only
contains the original kubrickheader.jpg - replacing it with
your custom
image works OK. Adding more images to the directory will also allow you
to use the intended functionality of the plugin and rotate the
images.
Where to get the source file?
GNU GetText is used to translate WordPress. The compiled
et.mo is included in the package (see above),
the source et.po file can be found here:
Remember to rename the files just to et.po!
Editing can be done with [L] PoEdit,
translation guidelines are in the [L] WordPress Codex.
Version history
- December 24, 2008 - 1,4: a quite notable revision for WP version 2.7
- July 16, 2008 - 1.4: a notable revision for WP version 2.6
- April 4, 2008 - 1.3: major retranslation for WP version 2.5
- September 27, 2007 - 1.2: added translation for WP version 2.3
- July 9, 2007 - 1.1: solved the header problem by adding the Header
Image Rotator plugin as a workaround; some minor corrections.
- July 4, 2007 - 1.0: the initial version for WP version 2.2.
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