Hey all, Two related questions: For the Ghost dev team: Would a community effort to translate one of the official themes (maybe starting with Source) be useful, and more importantly, would you merge an eventual PR? I’d love to make a translated theme available to the folks on the starter plan. To everyone: Is anyone in the community interested in contributing translations of one of the official themes? (I’d be inclined to do Source first, but if everyone is excited about something else, I’m flexible.) If the dev team is willing to take the translations on the official themes, that’d be awesome. If they aren’t, then we could still translate a fork of the theme, but it would require folks on Ghost Pro to have the Creator plan or higher.

I’ll take a look at this and try to figure out why it’s so challenging. But since you already looked at it, it would be great if you can roughly point out the challenging part(s) of this work.

Fine, but both initiatives, are incomplete and will not work, because as show in docs, theme translation MUST have “pagination.hbs” and “navigation.hbs” at partials folder and the translation tags there. I did this, and now my Casper Fork works.

As for now, Ghost are not accepting i18 translations in default themes, since they are working in i18 for Ghost, and i18 are not stable yet. From main Ghost dev perspective is ok. Since, need to deal with some dilemmas, like the logical values that are in ‘package.json’ and are used in theme templates *.hbs, etc. But, for many people on community, they want to use Ghost in production with i18 for their audience. In this way, I create a Github Organization where I will add all OpenSource Ghost Themes and adjust i18 needs. Everyone want to help. Are welcoming.

Hey folks! It’s Sunday, so I’m goofing off (instead of working) by ripping out the existing theme translation package and making it use i18next. I’ve been making use of the Source-i18n package for testing (thanks @NinoBagatello , and I see there’s a Casper fork (from @jobdiogenes ) that I can also try. However, I know I’ve seen more complex usage in some paid themes, and I’d like to make sure my re-implementation isn’t going to break those. So… I could use some help. Is there anyone making “interesting” use of the ‘t’ function in themes, including passing in variables, nested t, etc, able to help me manually test the edge cases? You could either: 1) Send me a link to download your theme, preferably with demo content & any required routing files or 2) grab my version of Ghost and install somewhere and test it yourself. (✨Theme i18n converted to use i18next (with feature flag) by cathysarisky · Pull Request #23161 · TryGhost/Ghost · GitHub ) Note: If you provide me with access to a paid or non-MIT licensed theme, I’ll only use it for testing, never for installing anywhere beyond my local dev setup. :) Thanks in advance! Update: I see there’s a bunch of themes in jobdiogenes 's Github org. I’ll go explore there. :slight_smile:

Hi @NinoBagatello, will there be an update soon to take into account the new social links?

@bastien the latest release of source is 1.4.1 from december 2024. Releases · TryGhost/Source · GitHub as soon as there is a new release i will update.

@NinoBagatello , Source has definitely been updated more recently than December, to add the new staff member socials. :)

@Cathy_Sarisky I see there is a Git tag 1.5.0 that wasnt marked as github release. so i got no notification about it.

@bastien @Cathy_Sarisky Source-i18n updated to v1.5.0 Git tag of upstream: [image] Release v1.5.0-1i18n · SourceTheme-i18n/Source Full Changelog: v1.4.1-1i18n...v1.5.0-1i18n For upstream changes take a look here: https://github.com/TryGhost/Source/releases/tag/v1.5.0

Anyone interested in translating an official theme?

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Hey translator friends! I can use some help over here:

Topic		Replies	Views
Source i18n with de, de-CH, fr, zh, zh-CN translations Themes	22	661	June 10, 2026
Help translate Ghost (beta) Contributing to Ghost 🛠-in-progress	167	13563	September 3, 2025
🌐 Theme translations! Contributing to Ghost	7	200	March 11, 2026
Source-i18n - german translation Themes	0	272	March 13, 2024
Ghost theme translator - CLI tool to generate theme language file Themes	23	2234	December 9, 2024

Anyone interested in translating an official theme?

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