13 Responses to “Yoav Farhi: Right to Left WordPress”

1. Ira
   June 30, 2010 at 12:24 pm | Reply

   Is this also available as test somewhere, with examples one can cut and paste?
• Yoav
  July 7, 2010 at 11:23 am | Reply

  Ira: slides and text on slideshare:
  http://www.slideshare.net/yoavf/wordpress-rtl
2. Ira
   July 7, 2010 at 4:45 pm | Reply

   תודה יואב, מצאתי בינתיים
3. Ofer
   July 21, 2010 at 11:40 pm | Reply

   Hello,

   Any simple way to check that the rtl.css is there and make the theme include it? As I am coding a translation plugin with rtl support.
• Yoav
  July 22, 2010 at 6:57 pm | Reply

  WordPress will automatically load the rtl.css if the blog is set to a RTL language (i.e. Hebrew)
• Ofer
  July 22, 2010 at 7:06 pm | Reply

  I understand it will, but I want to force it to believe that it is set to RTL, take a look at my plugin site to understand why (mainly language switch)
• Ira
  July 26, 2010 at 8:52 pm

  I’ll explain what I need as well, and I think what offer refers to – if one wants to build a multilingual blog, where some of the pages are going RTL and some LTR, what are the appropriate “buttons to press” to override this, so whatever calls “get_bloginfo( ‘text_direction’ )” may get a different answer based on some logic running at the theme level.
• Yoav
  July 28, 2010 at 6:52 am | Reply

  Setting the global $text_direction value should work.
  Take a look at the WPML plugin, it’s already doing that.
• Ofer
  July 29, 2010 at 12:05 am

  Hmmm?

  Don’t see such a global, also don’t see any such usage in wpml

  please enlighten me
4. Ofer
   July 31, 2010 at 11:50 pm | Reply

   I guess you know the microsoft/ibm joke with the plane

   anyhow – did you mean?
   
global $wp_locale;
$wp_locale->text_direction = 'rtl';

• Yoav
  August 2, 2010 at 2:00 pm | Reply

  That should work
5. Ofer
   August 2, 2010 at 5:44 pm | Reply

   Thanks for your help; the latest transposh plugin (0.6.1) now supports this feature.
6. Dan Lavie
   August 10, 2010 at 8:24 am | Reply

   I must say that Indeed the Transposh plugin for WordPress does a great job ‘converting’ almost any theme into a Hebrew/RTL version, plus the convenience of auto translation with the great ability to correct those translated pages after the initial google translate.

   Transposh is a must for anyone that need a quick multilingual wordpress website.