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Pascal Birchler

Dion Hulse

WordPress Performance Team

Making internationalization/localization in WordPress faster than ever before.
<h3>Disclaimer about WordPress 6.5</h3>
Attention: most functionality of this plugin has been merged into WordPress 6.5! You might not need it anymore.
However, 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.
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.
<h3>What this plugin does</h3>
This project uses a new approach to handle translation files in WordPress, making localization blazing fast.
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.
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.
If your site is using a language other than English (US), you should see immediate speed improvements simply by activating this plugin.

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


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.

manojtd

Easy Translator is a plugin to translate your blog posts and pages. It provides a customizable widget to enable machine translation (from Google or Microsoft).
Easy Translator also provides a tool for plugin authors and translators. This tool picks up translatable strings (in <code>_[_e]()</code> functions) and presents them and their existing translations (from the MO object of the current text-domain, if loaded) in a user editable form. It can generate a valid PO file that can be emailed to the plugin author.
The <a href="http://buy.thulasidas.com/easy-translator" title="Buy the Pro Version for $4.95" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Version</a> adds the following features:
<ol>
<li>Color-pickers for the blog post translation widget, to customize and match your colors with your theme.</li>
<li>Machine translation help to seed your plugin translation efforts. That is, for each translatable string found, it will give you a translation as provided by Google, which you can edit and perfect.</li>
<li>Auto identification of the text-domain used by the plugin being translated.</li>
<li>Email support so that your translators can send the PO file directly from the its window, streamlining their work.</li>
</ol>
If you are a plugin author interested in internationalizing your plugins, you may want to ask your potential translators to install Easy Translator to make it a snap to give you translations. If you want to clean up your internationalization, you will appreciate Easy Translator because it does a fuzzy string matching to highlight possible repetitions and conflicts among key strings.

Easy Translator

Great plugin

Easy Translator is a machine translator for blog posts and a plugin translation tool for developers and translators.

Performant Translations vs Easy Translator