How to translate month names in “Archives”

4 comments

1. if the translation is only for the archive widget, a filter function might work (to be added to functions.php of the theme):

   add_filter('get_archives_link', 'translate_archive_month');
   
   function translate_archive_month($list) {
     $patterns = array(
       '/January/', '/February/', '/March/', '/April/', '/May/', '/June/',
       '/July/', '/August/', '/September/', '/October/',  '/November/', '/December/'
     );
     $replacements = array(
       'jan', 'feb', 'mar', 'apr', 'may', 'jun', 
       'jul', 'aug', 'sep', 'oct', 'nov', 'dec'
     );    
     $list = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $list);
   return $list; 
   }
   

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2. Depends on your theme, but some language strings may be coded in the archives.php file. Check that and also see http://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers

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3. I believe the WordPress Multilingual plugin will do this, though I have not used it.

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4. I made a function in ‘functions.php’:

   function mes($month) {
   switch ($month) {
   case 1:
       $m_es = "ene";
       break;
   case 2:
       $m_es = "feb";
       break;
   case 3:
       $m_es = "mar";
       break;
   case 4:
       $m_es = "abr";
       break;
   case 5:
       $m_es = "may";
       break;
   case 6:
       $m_es = "jun";
       break;
   case 7:
       $m_es = "jul";
       break;
   case 8:
       $m_es = "ago";
       break;
   case 9:
       $m_es = "sep";
       break;
   case 10:
       $m_es = "oct";
       break;
   case 11:
       $m_es = "nov";
       break;
   case 12:
       $m_es = "dic";
       break;
   }
   return($m_es); }
   

   Assigning every numeric value of the months to the translation I would like to show.

   Then on my ‘single.php’ I just gave it some format:

   <?php echo get_the_date('d') . '.' . mes(get_the_date('n')) . '.' . get_the_date('y'); ?>
   

   It’s worked for me.

   Saludos!

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