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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.

Pedro Mendonça

<h3>Use any Locale, with or without Language Packs</h3>
<p>With core Language Packs you can easily change the language of your WordPress install.</p>
<p>The Language Packs used to be provided only for 100% translated Locales.</p>
<p>To give teams with less contributors a better chance to get WordPress released into their Locale, since <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2021/02/22/wordpress-5-7-ready-to-be-translated/" rel="nofollow ugc">22nd February 2021</a> the required translation status for core Language Packs to be built are as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/" rel="nofollow ugc">Front-end project</a> needs to be translated at least <strong>90%</strong>.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/admin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Administration project</a> needs to be translated at least <strong>75%</strong>.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/admin/network/" rel="nofollow ugc">Network Admin</a> and <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/cc/" rel="nofollow ugc">Continent & Cities</a> projects are not included in the threshold calculation.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you need a Locale that has no Language Packs yet, this tool helps you by enabling ALL Locales on the list of the available languages.</p>
<h3>Compatible with plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/preferred-languages/" rel="ugc">Preferred Languages</a></h3>
<p>The plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/preferred-languages/" rel="ugc">Preferred Languages</a> overrides the standard languages field for site and user languages.</p>
<p>All the features added by Translation Tools are available for Preferred Languages users.</p>
<h3>Update your WordPress, Plugins or Themes translation, on demand</h3>
<p>If you need to update your WordPress core, Plugins or Themes translations on demand without waiting for a language pack to be generated, this tool allows you to manually update all the needed files for the installed version, with one click, in a few seconds.</p>
<p>Go to “Translations” on the Updates screen and choose what you want to update.</p>
<h4>All WordPress core sub-projects</h4>
<ul>
<li>Development</li>
<li>Continents & Cities</li>
<li>Administration</li>
<li>Network Admin</li>
</ul>
<h4>All translation files</h4>
<ul>
<li>.po (editable translation files)</li>
<li>.mo (binary translation files)</li>
<li>.l10n.php (PHP performant translation files)</li>
<li>.json (JavaScript translation files)</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Translations tests and info in Site Health</h3>
<p>Check your WordPress core translations in Site Health tests page.</p>
<p>The Site Health debug info shows the selected site and user languages, including multiple languages from the plugin Preferred Languages.</p>


Translation Tools

A fundamental tool for translators (and not only), works flawlessly.

Essential

The big difficulty when a plugin uses mostly JS is that the source files are minified. It is therefore very difficult to understand exactly where the string to be translated is.
This plugin allows to start the translation by validating and testing the strings locally little by little. Without waiting for 90%.

Essential plugin for translating plugins that use the block editor


This is a function that Wordpress should bring natively!


Excellent work

Translation tools for your WordPress install.

Performant Translations vs Translation Tools