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Dion Hulse

Pascal Birchler

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


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.

Pedro Mendonça

The plugin adds a “Translation Stats” column to the plugin list screen in WordPress admin.
The translation stats are shown only for plugins that exist in <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">translate.wordpress.org</a> and are <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/internationalization/how-to-internationalize-your-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">prepared for localization</a>.
If a plugin doesn’t have complete translation stats, you’ll see a notice with one of the reasons below:
<ul>
<li>Plugin not found on WordPress.org</li>
<li>Translation project not found on WordPress.org</li>
<li>The plugin is not properly prepared for localization</li>
</ul>
The color scheme of the translation stats bars is exactly same used in <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/glotpress/" rel="ugc">GlotPress</a> for consistency with the translation experience in <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">translate.wp.org</a>.
This plugin is properly prepared for localization.

Translation Stats

Really helpful in having one place with the direct links!

Really helpful in having one place

Este plug-in me é muito útil porque eu trabalho com traduções para o WordPress e o plug-in me ajuda a perceber o que está defasado em nosso idioma. Além disso, é simples e prático. Bom trabalho, Pedro!

This plugin is very useful to me in my work on WordPress translations. It helps me to visualize what is incomplete or outdated in my language. Moreover, it is simple and easy to use. Good job, Pedro!

Muito útil / Very useful

Very good idea!

It's a very useful tool for WordPress translators.

Thanks!

Really useful for translators

I got to know this tool in WordCamp Lisbon contributor day and I must say it's very useful. Not only as a contributor but also as a plugin developer. Good job! 

Great tool for Contributors

It’s excellent. I was looking for a way to add translation stats, and this plugin works like a charm. Nice work!

Awesome!

Show plugins translation stats on your WordPress install.

Performant Translations vs Translation Stats