Feature Suggestion – Clean up files for languages that are not installed

  • We recently added the missing language directories, and re-located some dangling .mo and .po files plugins had dropped in our wp-content/plugins directory (due to the missing language directories) and were surprised that the built in translation engine skips right over configured languages and will translate anything it finds

    As shown in the linked issue with woocommerce, this can cause serious issues with delay during plugin installations for people with no language support even installed.

    It might even be a chicken-egg scenario where people are removing the language directories to work around these types of issues, when actually, cleaning up the languages not installed and leaving the directory structures intact would be the smarter approach.

    It seems right up WP_Optimize’s alley to have a feature that cleans out language files for languages that are not installed, resolving the ghost translation issue completely.

    https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/28941

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by i.macdonald.

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  • Hi there,

    Thank you for the suggestion.
    I took a look at the issue on Github, and looked at some of my websites, and while WooCommerce is responsible for many of those files, I get many files on websites without it as well, so the issue is a WP core one more than WC.

    We’ll see if this something we should look at.

    Marc.

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