Takayuki Miyauchi

Pedro Mendonça

Mayo Moriyama

Pascal Casier

まーちゅう

Sayaka Kosugi

Pieterjan Deneys

Naoko Takano

Krzysztof Grabania

<p>Apply WordPress.org theme and plugin translations to a site even if translations are not yet approved or language packs have not been released.</p>
<p><strong>Note about Translation Playground:</strong><br />
The <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2023/04/19/wp-translation-playground/" rel="nofollow ugc">Translation Playground</a> is now available for quick translation testing. However, if you need to test translations on your actual site, this plugin may remain the practical solution.</p>
<p>⚠️ Warning ⚠️ Currently this plugin downloads only strings from Development project instead of Stable for plugins. Please wait for an update or see <a href="https://github.com/mayukojpn/force-update-translations/issues/37" rel="nofollow ugc">the issue on GitHub</a>.</p>
<p>⚠️ Warning ⚠️ Currently this plugin is not able to generate the JSON files that is needed for JavaScript to consume some translations. Please wait for update or see <a href="https://github.com/mayukojpn/force-update-translations/issues/24" rel="nofollow ugc">the issue on GitHub</a>.</p>
<h3>Theme translation</h3>
<p>To download the translation files for a theme:</p>
<ol>
<li>Activate the theme you want to get the translation files.</li>
<li>Visit ‘Appearance’ > ‘Update translation’ in WordPress menu, or click ‘Update translation’ on theme details of current theme on ‘Themes’ page.</li>
<li>Click the ‘Update Translations’ button.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Plugin translation</h3>
<p>To download the translation files for a plugin:</p>
<ol>
<li>Visit ‘Plugins’ in WordPress menu.</li>
<li>Click ‘Update translation’ under the name of the plugin for which you want to get the translation files.</li>
</ol>


Force Update Translations

Just suggest translations to your language on translate.wordpress.org but not always need to wait for approval.

One-click fix!

Very useful

When I translate plugins or themes I need to see partial translations to check I'm doing right. Exporting .mo files was boring me... just when I found this plugin!
Very useful. Thank you for developing it.

Essential for WP translators!

Bad description of the features in the readme: no possibility to import translations for themes.
Bad support.

False advertisement

I am so glad to find this plugin. We have international users for our plugin that help out by submitting translations. The problem is, there is no way for them to use the translations until it goes through a formal approval process.

This is a wonderful solution, we can point our users to this plugin so they can use the translations right away.

Thanks so much for making this!

Amazing

Oh, this is an awesome plugin so I fully localize this plugin's UI and page for zh_TW.

Awesome plugin

Apply WordPress.org theme and plugin translations to a site even if translations are not yet approved or language packs have not been released.

WordPress.org

Dion Hulse

Pascal Birchler

WordPress Performance Team

<p>Making internationalization/localization in WordPress faster than ever before.</p>
<h3>Disclaimer about WordPress 6.5</h3>
<p><strong>Attention:</strong> most functionality of this plugin has been merged into WordPress 6.5! You might not need it anymore.</p>
<p><em>However</em>, this plugin is still relevant for cases where language packs are not downloaded from WordPress.org but somewhere else, for example if you are developing your own plugins or using commercial plugins.</p>
<p>The Performant Translations plugin converts the translation files of those plugins to the new file format introduced in WordPress 6.5, to really optimize them for speed.</p>
<h3>What this plugin does</h3>
<p>This project uses a new approach to handle translation files in WordPress, making localization blazing fast.</p>
<p>An <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/07/24/i18n-performance-analysis/" rel="nofollow ugc">in-depth i18n performance analysis</a> showed that localized WordPress sites load significantly slower than a site without translations.</p>
<p>With this plugin’s new approach to localization, this overhead is massively reduced, making your site fast again. It does so by converting <code>.mo</code> translation files to <code>.php</code> files.</p>
<p>If your site is using a language other than English (US), you should see immediate speed improvements simply by activating this plugin.</p>


Performant Translations


This is a commendable effort, and it came out at the perfect time, at least for me.



I am looking forward to seeing how it evolves, and I hope to see it merged with the core in the fourth phase of the Gutenberg project.


Commendable effort


Installed this plugin to see what the effect is on my site. I am not yet 100% sure that it makes a big difference. But that all depends on the amount of texts used on your site. So far no bad experiences


Plugin speeds up the presentation of your site


This problem has been around for a long time and I've used various plugins. I hope it will be added to the core soon!


Required for non-English speaking WPs


I've got a multi language site (with WPML) that has a huge performance problem. I was not able to figure out what is actually causing the performance problem, the main problem probably has nothing to do with i18n, this plugin still helps cause it significantely speeds up the translations, leaving the only bottleneck to be the unknown problem.



Many thanks for your efforts!


Cool

Making internationalization/localization in WordPress faster than ever before.

Force Update Translations vs Performant Translations