Force Update Translations

by Mayo Moriyama

Description

Apply WordPress.org theme and plugin translations to a site even if translations are not yet approved or language packs have not been released.

Note about Translation Playground:
The Translation Playground is now available for quick translation testing. However, if you need to test translations on your actual site, this plugin may remain the practical solution.

⚠️ Warning ⚠️ Currently this plugin downloads only strings from Development project instead of Stable for plugins. Please wait for an update or see the issue on GitHub.

⚠️ Warning ⚠️ Currently this plugin is not able to generate the JSON files that is needed for JavaScript to consume some translations. Please wait for update or see the issue on GitHub.

Theme translation

To download the translation files for a theme:

Activate the theme you want to get the translation files.
Visit ‘Appearance’ > ‘Update translation’ in WordPress menu, or click ‘Update translation’ on theme details of current theme on ‘Themes’ page.
Click the ‘Update Translations’ button.

Plugin translation

To download the translation files for a plugin:

Visit ‘Plugins’ in WordPress menu.
Click ‘Update translation’ under the name of the plugin for which you want to get the translation files.

Screenshots

"Update translation" link will be shown in your plugins list.

Reviews

Very, very convenient!

By Irina (irinashl) on December 11, 2021

Very handy when editing a translation! Thanks for the plugin you need!

Very handy for PTE/GTE or just ... everyone

By Yui (fierevere) on October 17, 2020

Fetches freshly translated strings in a jiffy. Essential.

Awesome plugin

By Alex Lion (阿力獅) (alexclassroom) on October 15, 2020

Oh, this is an awesome plugin so I fully localize this plugin's UI and page for zh_TW.

Very helpful for translators

By Martin Sauter (martin.sauter) on September 15, 2020

If you are translating a plug-in or a theme, this plug-in is a must-have. It allows you to pull your translations from translate.wordpress.org into your website to see these translations in context – which is often the only way to tell whether something is well translated or not. In the most recent version of the plug-in, this works not only for plug-in translations but for theme translations as well. Easy to use, works fine.

Very helpful!

By (Nok) Pantip Treerattanapitak (Imnok) on June 11, 2020

This plugin is very helpful! We able to use themes/plugins in our language, even it is not 100% translation.

Amazing

By NSquared (croixhaug) on September 20, 2019

I am so glad to find this plugin. We have international users for our plugin that help out by submitting translations. The problem is, there is no way for them to use the translations until it goes through a formal approval process. This is a wonderful solution, we can point our users to this plugin so they can use the translations right away. Thanks so much for making this!

False advertisement

By Bonaldi (bonaldi) on April 14, 2019

Bad description of the features in the readme: no possibility to import translations for themes. Bad support.

Essential for WP translators!

By Lidia Pellizzaro (LidiaLAB) on December 28, 2018

When I translate plugins or themes I need to see partial translations to check I'm doing right. Exporting .mo files was boring me... just when I found this plugin! Very useful. Thank you for developing it.

Great and helpful

By Menn (mennstudio) on January 25, 2019

We had to manually download .mo for some translation changes. (And because it's not 100% translated in my language, then no automatic update translation.) It's not easy for most users. This plugin helps a lot. Thank you so much.

Very useful

By Knut Sparhell (knutsp) on October 3, 2018

Just suggest translations to your language on translate.wordpress.org but not always need to wait for approval. One-click fix!

Changelog

To read the changelog for the latest the plugin release, please navigate to the GitHub.