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January 30, 2015 at 7:25 pm

Thank you, Josh. Quick Localization certainly looks easier for making changes in wording than POedit.

I don’t recognize the word “performant.” Are you saying that POedit outperforms, and, therefore, will load faster than Quick Localization?

I guess the next question is, does POedit outperform Quick Localization sufficiently to make it worthwhile in making the extra editing effort? No sense in doing it unless my website visitors will notice a difference.

January 31, 2015 at 11:31 am

Thank you, Tony. I just downloaded and installed Loco Translate. When I chose Event Espresso, I got this message:

“Can not run multiple versions of Event Espresso! Please deactivate one of the versions.”

While I do have the core EE4 installed, I also have Events Table View Template (EE4.4.9+) installed and activated, and I have Event Espresso – Calendar (EE 4.3+) installed, but not activated. I’m guessing that it is seeing that as three separate versions of Event Espresso.

The difference will likely be minimal. However, the more time you put into the small improvements, the bigger the overall improvement on your site will be.

I can totally appreciate what you’re saying here. But I’m trying to shave off seconds from load times. So, to be clear, are we just talking milliseconds when we’re talking about how much time it takes a plugin like Quick Localisation to replace a handful of words? If so, maybe I should be looking at more productive ways to produce that effect.

January 31, 2015 at 12:29 pm

Excellent analysis and perspective on this subject. “Addicted” is a good choice of words. So is “obsessed.” I just know that many people are so impatient, they’re likely to bail out of a website if they have to wait a couple of seconds for a page to load. It’s amazing how impatient people have gotten!

Funny, I was just running P3 Profiler when your message came in. I don’t know if these numbers will mean much, but here’s what I got (which changes slightly every time I run it):

Total Plugins: 17 (currently active)
Plugin Load Time: 1.675 (sec. per visit)
Plugin Impact 71.6% (of page load time)
MySQL Queries: 50 per visit

The pie chart looks like Event Espresso is accounting for 65% of the plugin run time (or 1.0859 seconds). Quick Localisation is accounting for 30% (or 0.5042 seconds). And “other” is accounting for 5% (or 0.0848 seconds). I don’t know what would be considered normal. Does any of this help in determining if I’m quibbling about something insignificant?

I’m investigating the error you mentioned above.

Thank you.

January 31, 2015 at 1:09 pm

I’m on a shared server at Bluehost.

Yes, I expected that EE would account for a majority of the loading time. As an experiment, I just deactivated Quick Localisation, and here are the results:

Total Plugins: 16 (currently active)
Plugin Load Time: 0.823 (sec. per visit)
Plugin Impact: 64.4% (of page load time)
MySQL Queries: 47 per visit

EE is now accounting for 91% of the load time (0.7447 seconds), and other is 9% of load time (0.0781 seconds).

Am I interpreting this correctly, is it twice as fast without QL installed? If so, maybe I just live with the inappropriate words (“tickets” instead of “registrations,” “events” instead of “classes,” and so forth). There are several wording differences in my QL list, that really make the registration process simpler and clearer for a business like mine, that holds classes, not concerts and such. Sure wish there wasn’t a time tradeoff. Sure wish some effort could go into making EE4 more flexible in such wording changes within the plugin itself (changes that would survive a version update).

January 31, 2015 at 2:04 pm

Sorry if I offended you. Certainly didn’t mean to do so. I have no idea how complicated it is to create, without utilizing supplemental plugins. But this is the one area that I’d love to see that ability to change the wording listed in my original post (see the top of this discussion). Most, if not all, of the substitutions make it more understandable for my potential customers to understand what they need to do to sign up for a class. If they get a bit confused, a bit scared, I lose them. So I try to incorporate what I’ve learned about spoon-feeding them what they need to do to get registered. Again, Tony, I certainly didn’t mean to offend you. You’ve been a great resource for me!

In the meantime, I’ll see if I can figure out how to use the PO/MO file method.

January 31, 2015 at 2:40 pm

Thank you again. I know we’re on the same side. Glad to see we’re okay.

I just downloaded POEdit. Let’s see how far I can get on my own without asking for help. 😉

February 2, 2015 at 8:04 am

Thank you, Dean. Hopefully, I’m going to find time to give it a try sometime today.

February 2, 2015 at 4:06 pm

I’ve been digging around Loco Translate for general instructions. You know, words that tell you how to use the product. So far I haven’t come across any words that a non-programmer/non-developer would understand.

Just curious, what’s the name of the file that holds all of the EE4 words and phrases I might want to change? How difficult would it be for me to download that file through FTP and make changes in TextEdit, then upload the file back? If I did a search of the words and phrases, replacing them with my preferred choices (being extremely careful, of course, to not lose any coding along the way), maybe, just maybe, that would be the best course of action for me. No extra plugins to deal with and slow down loading speeds.

As long as I keep a copy of the original file, I wonder how much trouble I could get myself into. (grin!)

February 2, 2015 at 8:42 pm

Thanks, Sidney. Maybe you missed my most recent entry. I already created a .po file with Loco Translate. I have no idea if I did that correctly, as they don’t believe in posting instructions. So I just guessed.

Now back to my most recent question:

Just curious, what’s the name of the file that holds all of the EE4 words and phrases I might want to change? How difficult would it be for me to download that file through FTP and make changes in TextEdit, then upload the file back?

If I don’t need to use Loco Translate and PoEdit, isn’t that ultimately easier than learning to use two more plugins? And wouldn’t the pages load faster if they didn’t have to replace words every time the pages are opened?

As it turns out, Quick Localisation wasn’t quick at all. Yes, it was quick to figure out and use, but it doubled the loading time of my pages. Seriously, doubled it.

So if you’d just direct me to the source, I’d like to try editing there. And if it turns out that’s not possible, then maybe I’ll try the Loco Translate -> PoEdit route.

February 3, 2015 at 7:22 am

You make a great case for trying this approach, Dean. Thank you for creating a template for me to follow. I’ll give it a try when I am able.

February 5, 2015 at 9:07 pm

Seriously, what’s the next step?

February 5, 2015 at 10:32 pm

Thank you, Lorenzo. I was in the middle of sending Sidney a reply when your followup came in.

I added the plugin you sent me, though the name of what showed up in my WP plugins looks like the plugin I was trying to enter earlier:

Site plugin for aslan-editing-plugin
Deactivate | Edit
Site specific code for cpr-twincities.com

So is this yours or mine?

Whichever it is, it still says:

Upcoming Events

where I want it to say:

Upcoming Classes

Here’s an example:

http://www.cpr-twincities.com/community/cpr

On this page, http://www.cpr-twincities.com/events/adult-pediatric-adult-child-infant-cpraed-2, it also says:

Event Location

rather than

Class Location

It also says:

This ticket is required and must be purchased.

But I’d like it to say:

Class registration is required and must be purchased.

Below that, however, the next line is just as I’d like it:

Please note that a maximum number of 3 registrations can be purchased for this class per order.

On this page, http://www.cpr-twincities.com/register, I’d like it to say

Class Name and Description

instead of:

Registration Name and Description

I’m hoping that this very specific feedback will help you to understand what I’m attempting to do.

February 5, 2015 at 10:46 pm

Sidney, I don’t know how we could be talking “cross purposes.” Once again, I ask you to start at the beginning of this forum. And, once you’ve done that, I think you’ll see that my purpose has not changed. How you’re interpreting that purpose, that intent, that desire, however, I can’t control. So, for that reason, yes, we probably are talking “cross purposes.” We absolutely need to be on the same page if you’re going to be successful in helping here. And it’s quite clear that we’re not at all on the same page.

Regarding your statement that you don’t think that there are “simpler ways” to replace words, perhaps you’ve never used Quick Localisation. If you had, you’d know that it will do what I want it to do. It just doubles the loading time of each translated page.

I’m hoping that one of the EE veterans will jump in and help sort this out.

February 12, 2015 at 10:45 am

I’m still trying to get this accomplished. I just edited the text of what I think Lorenzo created for me, and added that to the plugin that he also created for me. I’ll post it below:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Site plugin for aslan-editing-plugin
Description: Site specific code for cpr-twincities.com
*/
/* Begin Adding Functions Below This Line; Do not include an opening PHP tag as this sample code already includes one! */

//* Change messaging for ticket to registration
function ee_change_ticket_messaging_registration( $translated, $original, $domain ) {

$strings = array(
‘Available Tickets’ => ‘Available Registrations’,
‘ / ticket’ => ‘ / registration’,
‘Ticket Details’ => ‘Registration Details’,
‘Event’ => ‘Class’,
‘Events’ => ‘Classes’,
‘Upcoming Events’ => ‘Upcoming Classes’,
‘Event Location’ => ‘Class Location’,
‘Ticket’ => ‘Registration’,
‘Available Tickets’ => ‘’,
‘Tickets’ => ‘Registrations’,
‘Ticket Sale Dates’ => ‘Registration Sale Dates’,
‘This ticket is required and must be purchased.’ => ‘Class registration is required and must be purchased.’,
‘Please note that a maximum number of %d tickets can be purchased for this event per order.’ => ‘Please note that a maximum number of %d registrations can be purchased for this class per order.’,
‘The dates when this ticket is available for purchase.’ => ‘The dates when this registration is available for purchase.’,
‘This ticket allows access to the following event dates and times. “Remaining” shows the number of this ticket type left:’ => ‘This registration allows access to the following class dates and times. “Remaining” shows the number of this registration type left:’,
‘This Ticket<br/>Sold’ => ‘This Registration<br/>Sold’,
‘This Ticket<br/>Left’ => ‘This Registration<br/>Left’,
‘Total Tickets<br/>Sold’ => ‘Total Registrations<br/>Sold’,
‘You need to select a ticket quantity before you can proceed.’ => ‘You need to select a quantity before you can proceed.’,
‘No tickets were added for the event.’ => ‘No registrations were added for the class.’,
‘Ticket Name and Description’ => ‘Class Name and Description’,
‘The following checkboxes allow you to use the above information for only the selected additional tickets/attendees.’ => ‘The following checkboxes allow you to use the above information for only the selected additional registrants/attendees.’,
);

if ( isset( $strings[$original] ) ) {
$translations = get_translations_for_domain( $domain );
$translated = $translations->translate( $strings[$original] );
}

return $translated;
}

add_filter( ‘gettext’, ‘ee_change_ticket_messaging_registration’, 10, 3 );

//* Additional changes to messaging for ticket to registration
add_action( ‘FHEE__ticket_selector_chart_template__ticket_details_price_breakdown_heading’, ‘ee_additional_change_ticket_messaging_registration_a’ );
function ee_additional_change_ticket_messaging_registration_a() {

return ‘Registration Price Breakdown’;
}

//* Additional changes to messaging for ticket to registration
add_action( ‘FHEE__ticket_selector_chart_template__ticket_details_event_access_message’, ‘ee_additional_change_ticket_messaging_registration_b’ );
function ee_additional_change_ticket_messaging_registration_b() {

return ‘This registration allows access to the following class dates and times.’;
}

//* Additional changes to messaging for ticket to registration
add_action( ‘FHEE__registration_page_attendee_information__attendee_info_not_required_pg’, ‘ee_additional_change_ticket_messaging_registration_c’ );
function ee_additional_change_ticket_messaging_registration_c() {

return ‘This registration type does not require any information for additional attendees, so attendee #1\’s information will be used for registration purposes.’;
}

//* Additional changes to messaging for ticket to registration
add_action( ‘FHEE__registration_page_attendee_information__auto_copy_attendee_pg’, ‘ee_additional_change_ticket_messaging_registration_d’ );
function ee_additional_change_ticket_messaging_registration_d() {

return ‘The above information will be used for any additional registrants/attendees.’;
}

//* Additional changes to messaging for ticket to registration
add_action( ‘FHEE__ticket_selector_chart_template__ticket_details_total_price’, ‘ee_additional_change_ticket_messaging_registration_e’ );
function ee_additional_change_ticket_messaging_registration_e() {

return ‘Total Price’;
}

/* Stop Adding Functions */

I changed the text within the plugin, then clicked the button to update it. But this is the resulting fatal error message I got:

This plugin has been deactivated because your changes resulted in a fatal error.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘Events’’ (T_STRING), expecting ‘)’ in /home6/cprtwinc/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cprtwincities-sitespecificplugin.php_/cprtwincities-sitespecificplugin.php on line 17

Could it be because I tried this?

‘Available Tickets’ => ‘’,

Here’s a sample page of where you see these words:

http://www.cpr-twincities.com/events/bls-cpraed-for-pro-rescuers-health-care-providers-3

The original line was “Available Tickets,” which I already changed to “Available Registrations.” But what I’m trying to do here is eliminate this line altogether.

Ultimately, I really don’t care what words are used on the back end. I only care about what site visitors see, so they really understand what’s going on.

I suspect that the code needs to be changed on the server, not conveniently my dashboard. If so, please tell me where to find the file. And can I do it without an editing tool other than TextEdit?

February 12, 2015 at 8:24 pm

I have no idea why, but on my laptop computer, everything’s just fine. Apparently, even though I emptied the cache on my desktop computer through WP Super Cache (several times) it still appeared broken. But, clearly, something bad was still hanging on in my desktop, no matter how many times I emptied the cache.

So now — after two weeks of back-and-forth communications between us — it appears that all’s well in WordPressLand.

Thank you for all of your help!