14 responses on “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?

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• Yoav
  July 7, 2010 at 11:23 am | Reply

  Ira: slides and text on slideshare:
  http://www.slideshare.net/yoavf/wordpress-rtl

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2. Ira
   July 7, 2010 at 4:45 pm | Reply

   תודה יואב, מצאתי בינתיים 🙂

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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.

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• 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)

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• 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)

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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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';


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

  That should work 🙂

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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.

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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.

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7. Ira
   February 27, 2012 at 9:00 am | Reply

   Hey Ayzee,

   Sorry, but there’s no buil-in support for that. there are one or two plugins out there that I was never able to wrangle well. for the two blogs I’ve built that have the ocassional odd directionality (one is LTR with occasional RTL, the other default RTL with occasional LTR), I used a category (though you can use a tag) that denotes that the post is of a different directionality, then there will be a php condition in the theme code to set the directionality of the post container based on that metadata. it’s somewhat of an ugly hack, but it works well. it won’t translate your language, of course. the remark boxes and their titles of “Name”, “Mail”, “Url” will still be in the main language unless you add more switches, and the code becomes ugly.

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