Problems with plugin translation

[willinrecovery]

We are in Canada and so some of our users speak French as their first language. Our whole site is not bilingual, but because of this plugin it seems our meetings page is! So first, yay! I didn't expect this.

However, there were a couple of problems.

First, one of the meeting types seems to be substituted with another in French. This is a Debtors Anonymous site but, in French, the Business Owner meetings are showing as Big Book meetings — but only in French. Is this a bug? Or do I just need to configure something else to make it work correctly in French. We have International members as well, should I configure multiple languages?

Also, there is trouble with the meeting type descriptions. I had substituted new descriptions for Closed meeting to reflect our program, but Closed meetings for example seem to have a French version of the original AA description. I am guessing there is more for me to configure here. Once again, how many languages should I configure — and how?

Thank you so much for what you do and all your patience!

[SIA-WEBSUP]

"Business Owner" being translated as "Gros Livre" is likely a bug. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

I'm not sure what you mean by "I had substituted new description for Closed meeting...".
Where exactly did you make this substitution?

[SIA-WEBSUP]

Sorry, I think I see the description that you 'customized', but I was unaware that the description could be customized. Where did you enter this text? Is it in the theme's function.php?

[willinrecovery]

Yes, that is where I made the changes (in functions.php). I do not recall where I found the direction for how to do this.

[willinrecovery]

"Business owner" does seem to be a version of the "Big Book" AA meeting type — at least in the sense that they both use 'B'.

I gather the French version is still drawing from AA categories. Honestly, until a member noticed this, I didn't realize the plugin supported multiple browser languages.

While this bug is being worked out, do you think it would be possible for me to customize the French type and description for 'B' to be a French version of "Business owner" for the AA category? I would have to do that for the DA meeting type in French anyway but I don't know how to do that.

As I am sure you can understand, the last thing I want to do is offend our French members.

[SIA-WEBSUP]

I'm still figuring out how WP handles translations, but what I can tell you is that the plugin doesn't house its own set of translation strings. It relies on WP to do the translation and the process to add a new string to the 'translation library' for a given plugin is not as straightforward as one might imagine.

I was thinking a workaround that would be rather straightforward would be to add a custom type for 'Business Owner' that has the type in English and French. Unfortunately this wouldn't be a great solution for the description unless you were willing to have the description in English and French which I imagine would be a little long.

Here is the code that I was imagining:

if (function_exists('tsml_custom_types')) {
	tsml_custom_types(array(
		'BOA' => "Business Owner / Propriétaire d'entreprise",
	));
}

[willinrecovery]

Could you please remind me of where to find the documentation on how to customize the types? I promise I will bookmark it. Clearly I found it once!

Also, I noticed another plugin 12 Step Meeting List Xtras. Is this a possible solution? It seems to be add new codes and to turn off others.

Or would you suggest I keep doing this with code?

Thank you so much

[SIA-WEBSUP]

readme.txt

• https://github.com/code4recovery/12-step-meeting-list/blob/main/readme.txt

which is also available on the wordpress.org page for the plugin

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/12-step-meeting-list/#my%20meeting%20type%20isn%27t%20listed%21

I wish I knew more about Xtras plugin. Sorry I can't help you there.

[willinrecovery]

Do you know if this issue has been flagged as a bug then?

Thank you for directing me to that documentation, it helped. And this approach, as kludgy as it may be, seems to have worked.

I changed the name of 'B' to 'Not in use'

I created a new type 'BDA' with its own description just in English.

I am not that familiar with the language settings in Chrome (there are a lot of options) but from my own testing, the browser now appears to be translating the new description rather than the default AA description (presumably because 'BDA' doesn't have an AA description). I am going to ask a francophone to test to see if they get the same results as their browser may have slightly different settings.

I am contemplating leaving the settings to AA or creating my own English and French meeting types for D.A. I am a little concerned about future web admins not knowing how to configure a French meeting.

[SIA-WEBSUP]

Terrific that the custom type names and custom descriptions are being translated!
If a bug report has not been opened up on this issue yet, one will be shortly. Glad you found a satisfactory workaround for now!

[SIA-WEBSUP]

Here's that issue in the TSML-UI repo: code4recovery/tsml-ui#371