Search code examples
wordpresswordpress-themingright-to-left

Changing to right to left wordpress theme css

I have a wordpress theme containing style.css & rtl.css, beside other theme files. I want to change the theme to Right to Left for Arabic. What should I do? Use @import in style.css? Or replacing the text in style.css?

Solution

  • To active the Right to Left (RTL) in wordpress you should define the language to Arabic first by edit the line in wp-config.php just add ar between the '' to be 'ar'

    define( 'WPLANG', 'ar' );

    then, go to http://ar.wordpress.org and download the package, extract/unzip and upload the folder /wp-content/languages to your wordpress /wp-content refresh your blog and it should changed automatically to arabic

    PS: changing the WPLANG will effect admin menus and everything in the template will changes to the language matches ar.po (in /languages folder if it translated by the theme or plugin.

    please note that the language file must match the WPLANG name, in this case WPLANG set to ar so the .po file must be ar.po.