Translating the Journal theme

amokrane · December 7, 2021, 10:52pm

Hello everyone,
I am trying to translate the Journal official theme to French but I am not sure how to handle this. On the Ghost support center it says:

To ensure that your theme is fully translatable, two core templates must exist in your theme. Check the following templates exist:
pagination.hbs - exists in content/themes/mytheme/partials , copy the template
navigation.hbs - exists in content/themes/mytheme/partials , copy the template

Is it truly impossible to translate this theme? Is there a French version available somewhere?

Sorry for the noob question but I’m just getting into Ghost. Thanks in advance for any reply!

amokrane · December 10, 2021, 3:06pm

any idea?

marcogovoni · January 9, 2022, 6:04pm

I think this theme is not written to be fully translatable. Probably faster option is to translate directly .hbs files. I’m trying for my blog (in italian ;-) )

yanndortindeguey · May 15, 2022, 11:03am

Hello,
J’ai trouvé cette traduction par Grégoire Fernandez

github.com

GregFdz/Journal/blob/main/README.md

# Journal avaible for translation
This is the Journal theme for Ghost CMS, made availble for translation. It only contains one French json file but now all you have to do is customizing it to your needs and with your required language. 
# How to translate
In order to make your own translation of Journal, download the file of this fork and create a new file named with your langauge's abreviation and ".json" extension, just like that <abreviation>.json. In the example of french, you'll find a file named "fr.json". Beware, using fr.json as a translation file for another language will result in displaying your translation only when your website's settings are defining french as main language. You need to properly name your file according to the language you use.

When your JSON file is created, you need to fill it with your translation. In order to do that, you can copy the french translation's content andreplace french bits with yours. Do not touch the english bits ! This will prevent Ghost from using your bits and force it to fall back onto the original language of the theme (which is english). 

Ghost's documentation : 
  https://ghost.org/docs/themes/helpers/translate/


# Translation's credits as of march 2022 :
- Dynamic translation from plain english made available by : Grégoire Fernandez
- Default french translation written by : Grégoire Fernandez

I didn't create these themes. They may be subject to licenses according to what the original author decided.

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bastien · May 20, 2022, 8:37am

Salut ! Super cette traduction. J’avais tenté de traduire un autre theme free sans réussir. Comment as-tu trouvé celui de Grégoire Fernandez ? Est-ce que tu le connais, a-t-il un site pour le contacter ? J’aimerais en discuter avec lui.

yanndortindeguey · May 25, 2022, 9:26am

Hello, Je l’ai trouvé par des recherches dans ce forum et Google. Je ne le connais pas, et n’ai pas trouvé son site. Il est présent dans cette communauté.
Bonne chance !

yanndortindeguey · May 25, 2022, 9:28am

Voici le contact de Grégoire Fernandez dans la communauté Ghost : Profile - GregFdz - Ghost Forum

bastien · May 30, 2022, 10:43am

merci beaucoup je vais tenter de le contacter

amokrane · June 15, 2022, 4:45pm

Salut, merci beaucoup pour la réponse et désolé pour la réponse tardive. C’est vraiment cool !

vanjungg · June 26, 2022, 4:37am

thank you! it has helped me lots, may i ask though: where do you find the English strings to translate?

Is it that we just go through the theme and collect all the English bits there are?

amokrane · July 28, 2022, 11:15am

Hi, yes
You need to find every bits of plain text (as opposed to code) within the theme files. Then add the translation helpers to them.

vanjungg · July 29, 2022, 10:57am

I see. Adding translator helpers is a much cleaner and sustainable way (for future theme updates) than hard-code translate each word that i was doing now. Thanks for suggesting!

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