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February 12, 2014 at 12:13 pm

Hi Paul,

The language files from Event Espresso 3 can be used to translate Event Espresso 4, but I don’t recommend going the Poedit route because I think Poedit is overkill and clunky to use to change a few text strings, so I can offer the suggestion to use a custom function instead.

Here’s something you can add to your theme’s functions.php file or in a custom snippet plugin. Your custom text can be entered between the %s on second part of the the fifth line:

function mycustom_filter_gettext( $translated, $original, $domain ) {
 
    // This is an array of original strings
    // and what they should be replaced with
    $strings = array(
        '%sClick here for Invoice%s' => '%sChanged Invoice link text%s',
        // Add some more strings here
    );
 
    // See if the current string is in the $strings array
    // If so, replace its translation
    if ( isset( $strings[$original] ) ) {
        // This accomplishes the same thing as __()
        // but without running it through the filter again
        $translations = &get_translations_for_domain( $domain );
        $translated = $translations->translate( $strings[$original] );
    }
 
    return $translated;
}
 
add_filter( 'gettext', 'mycustom_filter_gettext', 10, 3 );