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Change Displayed Text

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Although it won’t be possible to change every bit of text that eShop uses, you will be able to change some without the need for a full translation (po/mo etc). Use the example plugin below to create your custom text-mangler plugin. The plugin is based on Peter Westwood’s PJW Translation Mangler ¹.

Example

<?php
/*
 Plugin Name: eShop Text Mangle
 Plugin URI: http://quirm.net
 Description: Replacing eShop texts the plugin way. Based on PJW Translation Mangler by Peter Westwood http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/
 Author: Rich Pedley
 Version: 0.01
 Author URI: http://quirm.net/
*/

class eShop_Translation_Mangler {
 /*
* Filter the translation string before it is displayed.
*
 * @param $translation The current translation
 * @param $text The text being translated
 * @param $domain The domain for the translation
 * @return string The translated / filtered text.
 */
 function filter_gettext($translation, $text, $domain) {
   $translations = &get_translations_for_domain( 'eshop' );
   switch($text){
   //example of changing the default @ symbol in option @ price etc.
   case '%1$s @ %2$s%3$s':
     return $translations->translate( '%1$s : %2$s%3$s' );
     break;
  }
  return $translation;
 }
}
add_filter('gettext', array('eShop_Translation_Mangler', 'filter_gettext'), 10, 4);
?>