Polylang Theme Strings

Description

What is ?Polylang Theme Strings? and what for is it?

This plugin gives additional features to the plugin Polylang. It automatically scans all templates files and scripts of the active WP theme (and all plugins) for available strings that can be translated. For example:

• pll__('...');
• pll_e('...');

and adds them to the Polylang registery, after what you can manage the translation of finded strings using the administration panel. It will make your life easier for the development of multilanguage’s projects, because you will not need to enter the needed strings to translate manually – the plugin will do all the work for you.
Don’t forget that in the example are described the PHP-function calls, that is why they have to be inside of PHP-tags.

How works ?Polylang Theme Strings??

You have to install the plugins ?Polylang? and ?Polylang Theme Strings? on your multilanguage WordPress CMS project and they must be both active. When you are in the settings of plugin (Polylang) in the tab ?Strings translation? the ?Polylang Theme Strings? scans automatically the active theme of your project, find all the code strings that needed to be translated, adds them to the register, displays them on that page and gives to user the ability to translate these strings.

Like you can see, the ?Polylang Theme Strings? is perfectly integrate with the ?Polylang? plugin and works in automatically mode – it is comfortable, simple, and useful!

From version 4.0 ?Polylang Theme Strings? got settings page where you can configure the search strings-translations more deeply.

Learn more in https://modeewine.com/en-polylang-theme-strings.

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Installation

1. Make sure you are using WordPress 3.8 or later and that your server is running PHP 5.0 or later.
2. Install multilingual plugin ?Polylang?.
3. Install the plugin ?Polylang Theme Strings?.
4. Activate both plugins via the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress administration panel.
5. Go to the languages (Polylang) settings page.
6. When you are in ?Strings translation? tab of plugin settings (Polylang) – ?Polylang Theme Strings? starts scan the active theme of your project automatically, it finds all the code strings that needed to be translated, adds them to the register, displays them on that page and gives to user the ability to translate these strings.
7. Learn more in https://modeewine.com/en-polylang-theme-strings.

FAQ

Installation Instructions

1. Make sure you are using WordPress 3.8 or later and that your server is running PHP 5.0 or later.
2. Install multilingual plugin ?Polylang?.
3. Install the plugin ?Polylang Theme Strings?.
4. Activate both plugins via the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress administration panel.
5. Go to the languages (Polylang) settings page.
6. When you are in ?Strings translation? tab of plugin settings (Polylang) – ?Polylang Theme Strings? starts scan the active theme of your project automatically, it finds all the code strings that needed to be translated, adds them to the register, displays them on that page and gives to user the ability to translate these strings.
7. Learn more in https://modeewine.com/en-polylang-theme-strings.

Reviews

Needs to be updated

tfbbbbb January 26, 2022

A) It gives errors in the debug logs. B) It fucks up the woocommerce default translations. Adding .po and .mo files in wp-content/languages/ etc wont help, because this plugin overrides this somehow. Deactivating this plugin brings forth the translations. Used loco translate to try to fix this, but without results. Deactivating this plugin is the key – It needs to be fixed.

very good

tiagopmartins May 31, 2021

what I needed to translate, I got it with this free Plugin.

Creates a strange language mixture

Martin Sauter October 17, 2019

I used Polylang Theme Strings in a WordPress 5.2.4 installation with two languages (EN & DE) and the Job Board Manager plugin. As long as Polylang Theme Strings was activated, most German translations did not show up correctly in the frontend although a complete German language pack was present. Even in the WP backend parts of the interface was mixed (i.e. under the “Seiten” menu there was a “All Pages” submenu instead of “Alle Seiten”).

Was good, now it’s too buggy

kozakr June 19, 2019

The plugin is changing the site language to English. And it somehow stopped registering new strings.

Better than WPML… and free

Mariela Zárate May 14, 2019

You are awesome! Thanks!

Works great most of the time

April 5, 2019

Great plugin – but it only detects plugin strings on some websites and not others. The following on the Settings page states: “Include the search for plugins of WordPress It may be required additional system resources” What exactly does this mean? Are their server settings that can be altered that may help the plugin find the strings from other plugins?

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

4.0 (2018-08-15)

• Integrated new feature: include the search for native string functions of WordPress (configurable on setting page).
• Integrated new feature: include the search of strings-translation for WordPress plugins (configurable on setting page).
• Merged the menu of ?Polylang? and ?Polylang Theme Strings?.
• Own plugin settings page.
• Fixed small bug in the theme-files search-system.
• Tested and optimized compatibility up to WordPress 4.9.8.
• Tested and optimized compatibility up to Polylang 2.3.9.
• Improved code.

3.5 (2017-09-11)

• Tested and optimized compatibility up to WordPress 4.8.1.
• Tested and optimized compatibility up to Polylang 2.2.1.
• Improved code.

3.4 (2017-05-17)

• Fixed small bug in the search-engine of strings-translation.
• Added file size limit in the theme-files search-system.

3.3.2 (2017-01-25)

• Added compatibility with Polylang 2.1 (Thanks to Mike Ambukadze for the report).

3.3.1 (2017-01-24)

• Fixed small bug in the theme-files search-system (Thanks to einicher).

3.3 (2017-01-20)

• Added compatibility for strings with special characters.
• Tested and optimized compatibility with WordPress 4.7.
• Tested and optimized compatibility with Polylang 2.

3.2.1 (2016-07-21)

• Fixed small bug (Thanks to Peter Bowyer).

3.2 (2016-06-28)

• Improved search-engine of strings-translation.

3.1 (2016-06-01)

• Improved code.
• Tested and optimized compatibility with PHP 7.

3.0 (2016-03-23)

• Added new info area in strings-translations page (Polylang settings).
• Improved code and scanning strings engine.
• Tested and optimized compatibility with WordPress 4.5.

2.2.1 (2016-03-09)

• Fixed small bug in search strings-translation.

2.2 (2016-01-25)

• Optimized compatibility with Polylang 1.8.
• Improved code.

2.1.1 (2015-12-17)

• Tested and optimized compatibility with WordPress 4.4.

2.1 (2015-09-01)

• Absolute compatibility with WordPress 4.3.
• Partially improved code.

2.0 (2015-06-21)

• Completely remade the search strings-translations logic in the themes.
• In the languages (Polylang) settings page: the search is performed on all themes in your project.
• Optimized initialization strings-translations for the active theme.
• Improved code.

1.1 (2015-06-12)

• Fixed bug when removing the plugin from the admin panel.
• Improved code.

1.0 (2015-05-29)

• First release.