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PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party uses po and mo filesMO files MO, or Machine Object is a binary data file that contains object data referenced by a program. It is typically used to translate program code, and may be loaded or imported into the GNU gettext program. This is the format used in a WordPress install. These files are normally located inside .../wp-content/languages/. Can I override these with polyglots?

I submitted my plugin SimpleTOC https://wordpress.org/plugins/simpletoc/ I provided po and mo files for some basics. Now I see in polyglots that these strings are translated. Most likely because of the po/mo files.

Question:
Can I delete my po/mo files now?
Should I leave it like that and can I override my po/mo files with the polyglots backend?
What is the canonical way of doing this?

Pascal Casier 8:33 am on April 22, 2020

Hi @marcdk ,
As your Requires at least: is set to 5.0, the translation pack for German will be taken from translate.wordpress.orgtranslate.wordpress.org The platform for contributing to the translation of WordPress core, themes and plugins. because it exists there. However the French and Spanish translations are only at 28% so no translation pack was created (it needs to reach 90%). So if you remove your po/moMO files MO, or Machine Object is a binary data file that contains object data referenced by a program. It is typically used to translate program code, and may be loaded or imported into the GNU gettext program. This is the format used in a WordPress install. These files are normally located inside .../wp-content/languages/ for FR and ES, then there would be no translation at all.

If you are ok with mainly the German language, then you can already remove all language files you have in your pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party and the community can translate if they want your plugin in another language.

More info: https://wp-info.org/tools/checkplugini18n.php?slug=simpletoc
- Marc 1:52 pm on April 22, 2020
  
  Thank you. So if I want to add lets say “polish” as a new language I would have to translate 100% to make it appear in the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party for everyone, right? And polyglot beats moMO files MO, or Machine Object is a binary data file that contains object data referenced by a program. It is typically used to translate program code, and may be loaded or imported into the GNU gettext program. This is the format used in a WordPress install. These files are normally located inside .../wp-content/languages//po filesPO files PO files are human readable files which contain translations we use. These files are not used by WordPress itself. Each language will have its own PO file, for example, for French there would be a fr_FR.po file, for german there would be a de_DE.po, for British English there might be en_GB.po. only if they are 100% complete. Did I get that right?
  - tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn Fjellner) 3:19 pm on April 22, 2020
    
    The threshold value for creation of a language package for a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party is “at least 90% of the stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. in plugin-stable” have been approved. Once a language pack has been created, it will replace any translations your plugin tries to load from its own directory.
- Marc 2:33 pm on April 22, 2020
  
  And it seems I can not approve my own polish translation because even if I own and maintain the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party I can’t approve my own translations in other languages than german. Right?
  - tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn Fjellner) 3:21 pm on April 22, 2020
    
    That’s right. You can ask in this blog to be assigned as translation editorTranslation Editor Translation editors can approve translations for projects. The GTE (General Translation Editor) and LM (Locale Manager) roles can add new users with the "Project Translation Editor" role that can approve translations for specific projects. There are two different Translation Editor roles:
    General Translation Editor and Project Translation Editor for those target languages you know well.
    In most cases we try to mentor the translators themselves to reach good enough quality in their contributions to be assigned as PTEProject Translation Editor A Project Translation Editor (often referred to as PTE) is a person, who has access to validate strings on a specific project (for example BuddyPress, WooCommerce or Twenty Fourteen) for one specific locale. A project translation editor can approve strings that are added by translation contributors. Per project translation, editors are appointed by a general translation editor after a request by the project author or by the contributors themselves..
Yordan Soares 1:19 am on April 23, 2020

FYI, your pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party is already translated to several Spanish localesLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/: es_ES, es_MX, es_PE and es_VE.
- Braulio Aquino 10:00 pm on April 24, 2020
  
  Hi, I approved your translations

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