Translation Support in Divi Events Calendar

Our modules automatically translate text based on the Site Language you set in WordPress General Settings, which you can access from the menu on the left side of your WordPress Dashboard in Settings > General > Site Language.

Key Points About Translation Support

1. Divi

Since our modules are built within Divi, any settings or text in Divi modules will follow Divi’s translation framework.

2. The Events Calendar

Our modules rely heavily on The Events Calendar plugin. Most text is dynamic and depends on The Events Calendar’s translation support.

3. Divi Events Calendar Modules

For text specific to our modules, translations automatically adapt to the WordPress Site Language. The following areas are relevant for translation within our plugin:

• Days of the Week – Found in the Events Calendar module.
• Detail Labels – Found in the Events Feed and Events Page modules. Note you can enter custom text as need for these labels.
• Pagination Text – Found in the Events Feed module.
• Filter Labels – Found in the Events Filter module.
• Default Buttons/Text:
  • View Event Website link text.
  • More Info button text – note you can enter custom text as needed for the button.

All other text is dynamic and sourced from Divi, The Events Calendar, or user input, making it independent of our modules. If you encounter issues or have specific corrections for your language, please let us know.

Supported Languages

We continue to expand our translation support based on user requests. The currently supported languages include:

• English (US)
• English (UK)
• German (Deutsch)
• French (Français)
• Spanish (Español)
• Czech (Čeština)
• Dutch (Nederlands)
• Danish (Dansk)
• Norwegian (Norsk bokmål)
• Galician (Galego)
• Arabic
• Swedish (Svenska)
• Italian (Italiano)
• Polish (Polski)
• Portuguese

Requesting Additional Languages

If you need support for a language not listed here, please contact us with your request. We are happy to add new translations in future updates.

How To Add A New Language

If you are willing to help both yourself and the rest of us by assisting with the translation process for your language, we would really appreciate it! Here are the steps to create a new language file for the plugin. Follow these steps and once you are completed, please share it with us for the benefit of other customers with your same language.

1. Download The Poedit Software

The first step is to download an amazing free tool called Poedit. This tool is an industry standard and is very reputable and very easy to use.

2. Load Translation File In Poedit

After installing the program, open the software and click on the File tab in the top left corner. Select “New from POT/PO file…” Navigate to the plugin folder (it will need to be unzipped) and open the “languages” folder. (NOTE: You may need to change the file type selector to .po if the program has .pot selected by default). Now select the en_US.po file to open it.

3. Choose Language To Translate To

Next, a dropdown selector will appear with a list of all the languages. Select your desired language from the list and click the OK button.

4. Translate The File

Now for the work. Inside Poedit you will see two columns. The first column on the left is the list of all the English words, phrases, and sentences from the plugin. The column on the left will have the corresponding translated words (it will be empty to start). Below this area are two boxes. The first “Source text” box has the source text, and the second “Translation” box is for writing your matching translation.

To begin translating, just select any text from the list and click in the Translation box to write your translation. You can also use the helpful features of the software such as the “Pre-Translate” feature which will go through and translate everything first as good as possible, then you can simply go through and edit the text rather than write all new text. You could also use any online tool such as Google Translate to copy and paste the words or to double-check your translation.

5. Save The Translated File

After completing the translation, go to the File menu and then click on “Compile to MO…” which will save the file as a .mo file. Place the translated file in the same “languages” folder of the plugin. It is important to rename the file correctly by adding “decm-divi-event-calendar-module-” as a prefix to the filename. So for example, if I was saving the file to Polish it would attempt to save as pl_PL.mo so I would add the prefix and save it as “decm-divi-event-calendar-module-pl_PL.mo”

Now your language will start working!