This filter allows you to add translations for your Tinymce plugin.
function my_custom_tinymce_plugin_add_locale($locales) {
$locales ['My-Custom-Tinymce-Plugin'] = plugin_dir_path ( __FILE__ ) . 'my-custom-tinymce-plugin-langs.php';
return $locales;
}
add_filter('mce_external_languages', 'my_custom_tinymce_plugin_add_locale');
Replace My-Custom-Tinymce-Plugin with your identifier of your plugin and make sure the path to my-custom-tinymce-plugin-langs.php is correct.
Create a new file, called something like my-custom-tinymce-plugin-langs.php and open it. Insert the following code.
// This file is based on wp-includes/js/tinymce/langs/wp-langs.php
if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) )
exit;
if ( ! class_exists( '_WP_Editors' ) )
require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-wp-editor.php' );
function my_custom_tinymce_plugin_translation() {
$strings = array(
'somestring' => __('My custom Tinymce plugin', 'textdomain'),
);
$locale = _WP_Editors::$mce_locale;
$translated = 'tinyMCE.addI18n("' . $locale . '.my_custom_tinymce_plugin", ' . json_encode( $strings ) . ");\n";
return $translated;
}
$strings = my_custom_tinymce_plugin_translation();
The code first checks if the file is included by WordPress. If not, it exits. Next, it checks if the class _WP_Editors exists. If not, the class is loaded (from wp-includes/class-wp-editor.php).
We wrap the translation in a function (this to make sure there are no global variables) called my_custom_tinymce_plugin_translation (make sure your function is unique). This is where you can translate your strings with a associative array. The key in this array is also the key you will use later on to get the translation. Then we retrieve the locale for the editor and we build some JavaScript. We use the tinyMCE.addI18n JavaScript function to add the translated strings to the editor. Some information about the arguments:
That bit of JavaScript code is returned by the function.
You can see that on the last line of the file, our function my_custom_tinymce_plugin_translation is called and that the translated strings are saved in the global variable $strings. (The variable has to be called $strings, or it won't work.
Next, use the next code to make sure WordPress loads the translations
function my_custom_tinymce_plugin_add_locale($locales) {
$locales ['My-Custom-Tinymce-Plugin'] = plugin_dir_path ( __FILE__ ) . 'my-custom-tinymce-plugin-langs.php';
return $locales;
}
add_filter('mce_external_languages', 'my_custom_tinymce_plugin_add_locale');
// ed is the current tinymce editor.
ed.getLang('my_custom_tinymce_plugin.somestring');
This will return the translation of "My custom Tinymce plugin".