There is more than 1 way to translate Maxhost Theme. Most common and useful method is to use PoEdit. Because this method saves your website server to run an extra translation plugin to do the translation.
You can translate the text of Maxhost theme using the PoEdit software. It’s available for free on poedit.net. Install PoEdit on your PC and then follow the following 6 steps:
- Open the PoEdit software > Create new translation.
- Locate the maxhost.pot file from the theme and click on ‘Open’ button. The maxhost.pot file is present in the maxhost/languages/ folder.
- Now, choose the language you want it to be translated into.
- Now, go through the text and translate it to your native language.
- Once done, click File > Save as, to save the catalog with your language code.
Note: Make sure that you are saving the file in the correct format. The format should be maxhost-language_code. (the list of language codes can be found here).
Example: maxhost-es_ES for Spanish translation, maxhost-sv_SE for Swedish translation. Once you click save PoEdit will automatically generate .po and .mo files for you.
- The last step is to upload your created language files (the .po and .mo files) to wp-content/
languages/themes folder using FTP or cPanel. Now, your site should show the translated texts.
If your site is still not showing the translated texts, change the local language in WordPress Admin:
That’s all.