Plugin info

Total downloads: 38,188
Active installs: 600
Total reviews: 12
Average rating: 4.7
Support threads opened: 1
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 49 language(s)
Contributors: 52
Last updated: 10/17/2025 (74 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 11/22/2015 (10 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.6
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 7.4

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 74 days ago • Support resolved 0% • 12 reviews

53/100

Is GlotPress abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 74 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 4.6
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 7.4

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Description

Many open source projects span regions, countries and dialects and need to support a variety of translations, GlotPress is here to help you collaborate online with your translators to ensure your users see your software in their native language.

For more information about GlotPress, feel free to visit the channels listed below in the “Communication” section.

So who should use GlotPress?

Any developer of software that uses gettext, like WordPress theme or plugin authors. But that’s just the start, anyone who uses a gettext bases system can use GlotPress to help their translators collaborate.

This plugin wouldn’t be possible without all the hard work that has gone in to the standalone version of GlotPress and we’d like to thank all those who contribute to it.

Support

For basic support questions, please use the WordPress.org support forums.

If you have a bug or feature request please visit the issues list to help improve it in future.

If you’d like to work on something and there’s not currently an issue for it, open a new issue and describe your proposed change before jumping into coding.

Communication

Installation

Within WordPress

  1. Visit the plugins page within your dashboard and select ‘Add New’
  2. Search for ‘GlotPress’
  3. Activate ‘GlotPress’ from your Plugins page

Manually

  1. Upload the ‘glotpress’ folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the GlotPress plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

After activation

  1. GlotPress can be accessed via <home_url>/glotpress/.
  2. You’re done!

More Info

More information can be found in the GlotPress Manual.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I contribute to GlotPress?

Drop by the GlotPress GitHub repository and look through the open issues and pull requests.

So who should use GlotPress?

Any developer of software that uses gettext, like WordPress theme or plugin authors. But that’s just the start, anyone who uses a gettext bases system can use GlotPress to help their translators collaborate.

How do I migrate my standalone GlotPress install to the plugin?

There’s a conversion document on the GlotPress wiki on how to convert your standalone install.

I’ve written a custom plugin for the standalone version, will it work with the plugin?

Short answer, no.

You will need to update the plugin to be a WordPress plugin. Instructions on how to do so can be found on the GlotPress Wiki.

Review feed

c_schmitz
9/3/2016

Best translation solution, even for non-WP projects

We are using Glotpress as part of our translation process and in general the community loves it.
Claudio Sanches
9/3/2016

Great work!

Works perfect!
Dario Ferrer
9/3/2016

Awesome resource!

Glad to know that Glotpress is available as plugin. Thanks!

Screenshots

No screenshots available

Changelog

This project adheres to Semantic Versioning. All notable changes to this project will be documented in the CHANGELOG.md file on GitHub.