WordPress in Estonian

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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