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How Do I Translate a WooCommerce Plugin?

Last updated on October 1, 2022 @ 3:15 pm

If you’re running a WooCommerce store, you may be wondering how to translate a plugin. After all, your products may be in one language, but your customers could be from all over the world.

Fortunately, translating a plugin is relatively easy. In this article, we’ll show you how to do it.

Most plugins come with one or more .pot files. These files contain all of the text that needs to be translated. To translate a plugin, you’ll need to create a .po file for each language you want to support.

Creating a .po file is easy with a tool like Poedit (https://poedit.net/).

Once you’ve installed Poedit, open it and choose File > New from POT/PO File from the menu. Select the .pot file for the plugin you want to translate and choose the language you want to create a translation for.

PRO TIP: When translating a WooCommerce plugin, it is important to take into account the context of the plugin and its strings. This is especially important for plugins that are integrated with WooCommerce, as they may use different terminology than what is used in WooCommerce itself. It is also important to note that some plugins may not be fully translated, and you may need to contact the plugin author for help with translating the plugin.

After that, you can start translating the text. When you’re finished, save your file and name it something like pluginname-locale.po, where locale is the code for the language you’re translating to (e.g., pluginname-de_DE.po for German).

Once you have your translation files, you’ll need to upload them to your website. The easiest way to do this is by using an FTP client like FileZilla (https://filezilla-project.org/). Simply connect to your website using FTP and navigate to the /wp-content/languages/plugins/ directory. Upload your .po and .mo files to this directory and they’ll be automatically loaded by WordPress.


.mo files are binary versions of .po files and are used by WordPress for performance reasons.

And that’s all there is to translating a plugin! By following these steps, you can make sure your WooCommerce store is accessible to customers from all over the world.

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Dale Leydon

Dale Leydon

Sysadmin turned Javascript developer. Owner of 20+ apps graveyard, and a couple of successful ones.