Translating Your Entire Website

Note: Jobify may already be translated in your language! Please read this article before proceeding. 

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Tell WordPress what language to use. Visit “Options > General” and select your language.
2
If your website is not translated once you have selected your language please follow the next steps.

Add Your Own Translation

1
Download the Poedit program to start translating the theme.
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Open /wp-content/themes/jobify/languages/jobify.pot with Poedit and translate all of the strings in your language. Make sure you select your language including the dialect. A full list of supported languages can be found here.
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Save your .po file (created when you start the translation) then visit “File > Compile to .mo” and save your .mo file next to the .po file in /wp-content/themes/jobify/languages/
4
Upload your translation to Transifex!

More information regarding translating themes can be found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress

Contribute Your Translation to The Theme Core Files

Core translations are hosted on  Transifex. Anyone can sign-up and start translating here and any updates will be included in the Jobify theme updates.

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