How to translate a WordPress Plugin

Traducir un plugin in WordPress es una tarea que a la mayoría de los webmasters nos toca hacer en algún momento. En CursoWpress.com te decimos cómo.

Imagine the following situation:

You are working on a draft Web tuyo (un Blog, a ecommerce or a briefcase) o el de un client. Entonces te encuentras con que el plugin that so fantastic. That plugin that will allow you to make your webaquella page functionality So specific, it's not in Spanish.

At the same time, after searching for hours in the repository of WordPress and by forums.You find out that he is the only one plugin that can fulfill that special function. There is no other.

And you already have the paid version.

In this way you write to developer. You raise your case. Within 48 hours he responds. It tells you that they are just working on the plugin translation in spanish. And it will be available maybe, in a couple of months.

But you don't have that amount of time.

Then?

Google: how to translate a WordPress plugin and you meet us.

Even by now you will be asking yourself some questions:

Is it feasible to translate a WordPress plugin?

 

Yes, its viable translate a WordPress plugin. It doesn't matter that the developer, and the user community, understand each other only in Mandarin and do not want to know anything about idiom by Cervantes.

Is it difficult to translate a WordPress plugin?

 

That will depend on several factors:

1. What level are you using the tools WordPress basic (plugins and others) and other computer tools at the same time basic.
2. How skilled you are in the languages you translate and how good you are at using the online dictionaries.

Which brings us to the next question:

Do you need to be a language expert to translate a WordPress plugin?

 

No. You do not need to be an expert in Languages. Although some notions always help.

What tools are used to translate a WordPress plugin?

There are several tools What will you help me to do? translations of plugins in WordPress:

1. Poedit

2. Crazy TranslatePlugin

 

Translating a WordPress plugin with Poedit

 

Poedit it is not a WordPress plugin. Poedit is a program that you can install on your computer (PC, Mac or Linux), downloading it from: poedit.net.

We can say that it is a freemium. With the free version from Poedit you can either translate your plugins or even your topics or templates.

Warning: Prior to translate with Poedit it is recommended create a backup of your WordPress installation.

1. Download and install Poedit.
2. Look for the pot files of the plugin to translate. POT files are about fileswith lists, where the texts that can be translated appear. The files POT se encuentran por medio de del acceso FTP que te posibilita ver los directorios en tu hosting la next route:

 

• wp-content / plugins / yoast-seo / languages / yoast-seo
• wp-content / plugins / contact-form-7 / languages / contact-form-7
• wp-content / plugins /the-plugin-you-want-to-translate/ languages / el-plugin-you-want-to-translate.pot

 

3. Copy and paste the .POT file in an accessible place.
4. With the Poedit open, follow this route:

File> New from PO file

5. Now select the file .PO What do we want to translate? Where do we find the .PO file?Inside the .POT file that we reserved in step number 3.
6. We select the idiom to which we will translate, we save the file.
7. We start translating:

 

How to translate with Poedit?

Easy. Poedit shows us a List of words. We select the word we need to translate, write its translation and click validate.

Once the text we need has been translated, we save the file in a locatable place and we upload it to:

wp-content / plugins /the-plugin-you-want-to-translate/ languages / el-plugin-you-want-to-translate.pot

Translating a WordPress plugin with Loco TranslatePlugin

Another way of translate a WordPress plugin it's with LocoTranslate.

Crazy Translate It is a real gem to do translations. We can find it in the plugin repository WordPress: free.

The advantage of having a translation tool As the Crazy Translate directly in WordPress. It shows us the status of translations and the translations available of our plugins and themes.

At the same time it tells us how many phrases has every plugin and every theme. And although you may think otherwise, Crazy Translate it's quite a plugin lightweight. Does not slow down loading speed from our website.

How to translate with Loco Translate?

 

Once the Crazy Translate. It We install in the usual way and activate.

Now Crazy Translate appears to us in our WordPress dashboard how an eyelash plus.

If we display the tab Crazy Translate, two options will appear:

Manage translations and Translate options.

• We select the option: Manage translations. We will see a list with all plugins and themes, the available translations, as well as the status of your translations.
• We select the plugin that we want to translate, from the language in which we will translate it. Now a list will open with all the words and phrases of the plugin.

• We make click on the wordor sentence What do we want to translate? we introduce the word in our language.
• We save the changes.
• We repeat this procedure with all the words that we need to translate (it is not necessary to translate them all at once).
• Done: We already have our plugin translated.

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