New inline Approve/Reject/Fuzzy action buttons to the translation editor

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The 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 row list has a new column to the right of “Details” with three icon buttons:

+: approve the suggestion
-: reject the suggestion
~: mark as fuzzy

The buttons appear only to validators on the translation set. Buttons that do not apply to a row are hidden: already-current rows have no Approve, rejected rows have no Reject, fuzzy rows have no Fuzzy. Untranslated rows show no buttons. Clicking a button saves the new status and replaces the row in place. The editor does not open.

The feature is enabled by default. To turn it off, check “Hide the inline action buttons in the translation editor” in the “ValidatorValidator See translation editor. settings” section of translate.wordpress.org/settings/.

Inspired by a similar feature in GlotDict.

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Irina 8:44 am on May 18, 2026

Excellent!!!
Please add /GlotDict/:
Non-translatable
%1$s
Thank you.
Peter Smits 8:44 am on May 18, 2026

Nice but can you activate them all at once? Because clicking them one by one does not help reducing work
Because now you can do the same with standard. I don’t see that option in the picture. It should behave the same as within WordPress translation Filler “Bulk save”
- Jesús Amieiro 9:15 am on May 18, 2026
  Nice but can you activate them all at once? Because clicking them one by one does not help reducing work
  Because now you can do the same with standard. I don’t see that option in the picture. It should behave the same as within WordPress translation Filler “Bulk save”
  
  The idea with this functionality is that you review each translation and approve, reject, or set as fuzzy, one by one.
  
  If you want to make a bulk action, you have an option with the select field on the top and on the bottom:
  - 1 click to select all the rows (table headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes.)
  - 1 click to select the action
  - 1 click to click on the “Apply” button
Peter Smits 9:18 am on May 18, 2026

Then I still need to do that per suggestion, which again is extra work.
I always check each suggestion before approving them. I ofcourse meant “approve”
Does the normal button to apply at the bottom approve the selected records on the right?
- Jesús Amieiro 9:20 am on May 18, 2026
  
  You have the bulk option, so you can do it in a bulk mode, not per suggestion.
Peter Smits 9:21 am on May 18, 2026

Can you also process my latest PR for NOT overwriting existant translations. Because now my change can no longer be implemented at once
Emre Erkan 12:38 pm on May 18, 2026

Thanks for the feature, much appreciated. 🙏

I have one suggestion though: we are not adding or subtracting things. Not adding a new translation, not deleting something. So instead of + / – signs, can we use unicode check/cross signs: `✓` (U+2713 or U+2714) and `✕` (U+2715)?
- Jesús Amieiro 2:55 pm on May 18, 2026
  
  It makes sense. I selected them because these (+, -, ~) are the default symbols we have been using in GlotPressGlotPress GlotPress is the translation management software that powers Translate.WordPress.org. More information is available at glotpress.org. and at translate.wordpress.orgtranslate.wordpress.org The platform for contributing to the translation of WordPress core, themes and plugins., so I don’t want to confuse the users.
  - Emre Erkan 3:36 pm on May 18, 2026
    
    Maybe it’s time to update those as well. 😀
    - tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner) 4:14 pm on May 18, 2026
      
      The keyboard shortcut to approve the currently selected stringString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. is Ctrl together with the Plus key on the number keyboard.
      And reject is Ctrl and the minus (actually hyphen) character.
      I don’t know if there is any shortcut to set as fuzzy, but on a Swedish keyboard the tilde isn’t that easy to reach, anyway…
Marc Armengou 9:52 pm on May 20, 2026

Does it make sense to replace the reject icon with an “x”? The ”-” and “~” are visually too similar.
- tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner) 12:28 am on May 21, 2026
  
  I’d rather change the symbol for “fuzzy”, perhaps to “Z”?
  - Peter Smits 6:25 am on May 21, 2026
    
    Just tested it, to me it makes no sense currently. That is because I could already do that with WordPress Translation Filler. And if you select them on the left of the panel, you can do the same without extension.
    This was one of the GlotDict functions I never used.
  - Peter Smits 6:26 am on May 21, 2026
    
    Why “Z” I would use “F” for Fuzzy

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