Pedro Mendonça

<p>Adds the CSV format to GlotPress to export/import translations and originals.</p>
<p>This allows you to export a translation set to a CSV file, and use this to import the translations or originals into the project.</p>
<p>This plugin is properly prepared for localization.</p>
<h3>The CSV Format</h3>
<p>The CSV output has values separated by <code>,</code> and enclosured by <code>" "</code>.</p>
<p>The total number of columns depends on the number of Plural Forms of the exported Locale.</p>
<p>For an sample file, please check out <a href="https://github.com/pedro-mendonca/GP-Format-CSV/blob/main/example.csv" rel="nofollow ugc">example.csv</a>.</p>
<p>The header columns for the different translations have the <code>Translation (<plural-form>)</code> naming convention, being the Plural Forms depending on each exported Locale.</p>
<p>See the example below for a <strong>Portuguese</strong> CSV export, which has <code>2</code> plural forms.</p>
<h4>The exported CSV in plain text</h4>
<pre><code>"Context","Singular","Plural","Comments","References","Translation (Singular)","Translation (Plural)"
"","Singular in English.","","Comment 1.\nComment 2.","","Singular em Português.",""
</code></pre>
<h4>The main columns</h4>
<p>The 5 main columns are <code>Context</code>, <code>Singular</code>, <code>Plural</code>, <code>Comments</code> and <code>References</code>.</p>
<h4>The Plural Forms variable columns</h4>
<p>The number of Plural Forms columns may vary depending on each Locale setting.</p>
<p>Check the below table for examples of <a href="https://github.com/GlotPress/GlotPress/blob/develop/locales/locales.php" rel="nofollow ugc">GlotPress Locales</a> from 1 to 6 Plural Forms.</p>
<h3>Included filters</h3>
<p>The <code>gp_format_csv_header</code> allows you to add, remove or customize items from the CSV header.</p>
<p>The <code>gp_format_csv_row</code> allows you to add, remove or customize items from the CSV row.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h4>Export translations to CSV</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to the bottom of the translation table.</li>
<li>Select <code>CSV (.csv)</code>.</li>
<li>Click on the <code>Export</code> link to download the CSV file.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Import translations from CSV</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to the bottom of the translation table.</li>
<li>Click on the <code>Import Translations</code> link.</li>
<li>Select the CSV file to upload, the <code>Format</code> is <em>Auto Detected</em>.</li>
<li>Click on the <code>Import</code> button.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Import originals from CSV</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to the project page.</li>
<li>On the project actions click on the <code>Import Originals</code> link.</li>
<li>Select the CSV file to upload, the <code>Format</code> is <em>Auto Detected</em>.</li>
<li>Click on the <code>Import</code> button.</li>
</ol>


CSV Format for GlotPress

Adds the CSV format to GlotPress to export/import translations and originals.

Bernhard Kau

<p><strong>Backend Localization is deprecated and will be removed from the plugin directory on September 2, 2023, 14 years after its first release. With WordPress version 4.7, released in December 2016, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/11/07/user-admin-languages-and-locale-switching-in-4-7/#content" rel="nofollow ugc">the main purpose of this plugin</a> was integrated into core. With WordPress version 5.9, released in February 2022, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/20/introducing-new-language-switcher-on-the-login-screen-in-wp-5-9/#content" rel="nofollow ugc">the only useful missing feature</a> was also integrated into core.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Thanks to everyone who used the plugin, gave constructive feedback, rated it and send me messages on how it helped them with their sites. This was my second WordPress plugin, and it’s surprising still has 2000+ active installations. If you see this message, you are one of them. But now feel free to remove it from your site. You can find my other plugins <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kau-boy/#content-plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">on my WordPress profile page</a>.</strong></p>
<p>This plugin enables you to run your blog in a different language than the backend of your blog. So you can serve your blog using e.g. German as the default language for the users, but keep English as the language for the administration.<br />
You can choose the language you want to use from all installed language files or you can install additional languages.</p>
<p>A list of all of my plugins can be found on the <a href="http://kau-boys.com/wordpress-plugins" title="WordPress Plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Plugin page</a> on my blog <a href="http://kau-boys.com" rel="nofollow ugc">kau-boys.com</a>.</p>


Backend Localization

Fantastic plugin if you need to deal with websites in various languages, but want to keep the backend in your preferred language. I can highly recommend this plugin.



Works great

Although WordPress 4.7 introduces the user language feature, this plugin is still tremendously helpful in my customer support job when I have to log in on sites running WordPress in an older version than 4.7. 

One feature that the WP 4.7 core user language doesn’t provide is to pick your language upon login—which makes this plugin even more helpful in customer support, since navigating for example an RTL back-end to find the profile page can be quite time-consuming when you're not used to it. (I assume the same is true for LTR for other people.)

All in all, this plugin is a huge win. I wouldn’t want to miss it in my daily job!

Still tremendously helpful

This plugin enables you to run your blog in a different language than the backend of your blog. So you can serve your blog using e.g.

CSV Format for GlotPress vs Backend Localization