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Debug MO Translations

by closemarketing

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Description

It gives you more information about all domains and translated mo files loaded in the actual installation, so you can debug what’s the problem with a plugin, theme, etc.

Only shows the debug info if you’re logged in in the footer.

You’ll have a info of all plugins loaded, textdomain used, if file is found and then the path where is the function of theme or plugin loaded. You can see the screenshots.

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Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from Plugins page.

Very useful plugin

By NewCodeByte (newcodebyte) on September 3, 2025

Thanks, your plugin is very useful and saved my time!

Thank you!!

By applecarrot on February 2, 2022

after hours of debugging, this plugin helped me find the problem

Quick solver for translation issues

By Pedro Mendonça (pedromendonca) on November 17, 2021

This plugin is a must-use to debug translation issues for WP core, themes and plugins. Thanks! 🙂

Great tool!

By nikoha on January 28, 2021

Thank you, developers! <3 This plugin is a true time-saver. You will see the result of how the plugin works at the bottom of the page of your site.

Great debugging tool

By aleangelico01 on August 26, 2020

If you are logged in, it shows at the bottom of the page the used languages files, found or not found per each plugin. Very usefull

5 minutes problem solver

By kalamun on February 20, 2020

I can confirm: 5 minutes for installing, debuggin and removing. It just saved me hours. If you can't find how it works, take a look at the end of your website's page to find all the details about i18n.

works with 4.8

By pcarvalho on September 13, 2017

very useful as it prints at the bottom all the possible paths that WordPress goes through.

Time savior ! Great little tool !

By fbtrcm on October 14, 2016

In 5mn my problem was solved thanks to this tool ! It has found the translation file that didn't load, i corrected the path and all went right again ! Be careful when you name your .po & .mo files ! 😉

Does what it promises, and does it well

By JoelSanchez on September 3, 2016

Solved my problem instantly.

Great for troubleshooting language file locations

By Nick C (modernnerd) on September 3, 2016

A very useful tool to discover where WordPress expects plugin and theme language files to be located.

1.3.1

  • Fix load self translations.
  • PHP Coding standards by mayakokits.
  • Updated versions of WordPress and PHP.

1.3

  • Contributions from pedromendonca (Thanks!): Better output in admin and frontend (see screenshots!).
  • Make translatable the plugin.
  • PHP Coding standards.
  • New design for the plugin.

1.2

  • Contributions from pedromendonca (Thanks!): Use in_admin_footer and wp_frontend hooks instead of shutdown hook and Prepare plugin for i18n.
  • MultilingualPress supported.

1.1

  • Fixed Return early during AJAX requests by Nickcernis.

1.0

  • First released.
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