How to Translate or Rename All Texts

Listivo texts live in several places at once. This guide shows you where each one sits — the Listivo Panel, custom fields, Elementor widgets, Contact Form 7 and the newsletter — so you can translate or rename every string on your site.

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This guide walks you through translating or renaming the elements of your Listivo theme.

1. Set Correct Site Language

Go to wp-admin > Settings > General > Site Language and set the correct language for your site. It can be English or any other language.

WordPress Settings > General screen with the Site Language dropdown highlighted and set to English (United States).

2. Customize Static Texts

Go to Listivo Panel > Translate/Rename. In this section, you can translate or rename all static texts to your desired language.

Translate & Rename screen in the Listivo Panel, Strings tab, listing theme texts such as Account Details and Actions, each with a "Translate / rename here" field.

Slugs are part of your URLs

The same module also renames slugs, so anything you change on the Slugs tab changes your URL structure.

The Slugs tab of Translate & Rename, with the "listing" slug renamed to "ad" and "listings" renamed to "ads".

3. Customizing Texts for Custom Fields, Their Options, and Placeholders

Read Customizing Texts for Custom Fields, Their Options, and Placeholders to learn how to translate fields, options, and their placeholders on search forms, add ad forms, and more.

Front-end Category dropdown open, listing Community, Devices, Fashion, For Kids, Health & Beauty and Jobs with the number of ads next to each option.

4. Change Texts on Elementor Widgets

Listivo pages and templates use Elementor widgets, which include some texts that cannot be found in Listivo Panel > Translate/Rename. This approach is beneficial because Elementor widgets provide greater design freedom, and having access to the text directly in the widget lets you modify it with a live preview instead of hunting for it in the backend.

4.1. Open the page in Elementor

Find the page you want to modify (e.g., Homepage) and click the Edit with Elementor button.

WordPress Pages list with the "Edit with Elementor" link in the row actions of the Home page highlighted.

Alternatively, you can click this button when viewing a page.

Listivo homepage on the front end with the "Edit with Elementor" button in the WordPress admin bar highlighted.

The Elementor Page Builder will open, allowing you to edit any content as needed.

Elementor editing the homepage: the Edit Section Heading V2 panel on the left holds the "Find Anything Around You" text shown in the live preview.

4.2. Customize Text on Single Ad Template and Other Templates

Go to Listivo Panel > Templates > Ad Page and edit the active template.

Listivo Panel > Templates on the Ad Page tab, listing the Carousel, Mosaic and Gallery templates with Gallery selected and its Edit button highlighted.

Change texts that are part of widgets, such as the label above the ad description,

Elementor's Edit Ad Description panel with the Label field set to "Description", next to the ad page preview showing that same Description heading.

or any other widget, like User Ads.

Elementor's Edit User Ads panel with the Heading field set to "More from this user", matching the section title in the preview.

5. Contact Form 7 Text Customization

Please check this separate article about customizing Contact Form texts: Contact Form 7 Text Customization

Front-end contact form with the Name, Email, Phone and Message field labels and the Send Message button all marked out.

6. MailChimp (MC4WP) Newsletter Text Customization

Please check this separate article about Mailchimp integration: Mailchimp Integration with MC4WP Plugin: A Step-by-Step Guide

7. Translating Search Form H1

Please check this separate article about customizing Search Form H1 texts: Changing Search Form H1 (Classified Ads, Real Estate, etc.)

Search results page showing "183 Results" with the "Classified Ads" H1 next to it marked out.

Keep reading

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