manually translating some text strings – no way

Hi @lesi2000

When it comes to translations, the easiest solution would be to translate the strings directly on your site using the Loco Translate plugin. This allows you to translate strings immediately without needing to upload any .po/.mo files as these are created automatically.

If, however, you’d like to continue using POEdit for translations, you can follow these steps:

1. Open the WooCommerce.pot file in POEdit
2. Click on “Create new translation” and select Bulgarian from the dropdown list
3. Locate all instances of subtotal: in the .pot file (there might be more than one) and add your translation.
4. Using an FTP tool (e.g. FileZilla for Windows, or Transmit for Mac) and upload the generated .po / .mo files (the .pot file won’t do anything) to /public/wp-content/languages/plugins/.

Hope it helps!

I think i do exactly this. However:

1. i download the bulgarian tranlsation (.po) from here: https://translate.www.ads-software.com/locale/bg/default/wp-plugins/woocommerce/
2. I change the string i want https://prnt.sc/Y8LrBSpmIJx3
3. i upload it here /public/wp-content/languages/plugins/ (together with the .mo file). I call them Woocommerce-bg_BG.po (+ .mo)
4. And it is not wokring….

So i have a few questions regrading your method

I want to keep other translations made by the Bulgarian team. If i translate the Woo Commerce pot file only the string i want, how the other Bulgarian string will appear?

• This reply was modified 9 months ago by lesi2000.

It does sound like you’re following the correct procedure so far. To troubleshoot this further:

• Are you sure that the .pot file being used in the Bulgarian community translation, is the latest version? I often seen that Bulgarian strings are shown as 100% translated but the underlying template is then outdated (this is something that can be fixed/updated by using the “Sync” button on Loco Translate)
• Are you sure that you’re translatd all instances of “Subtotal”? I’m asking as when I look at the .pot template file using Loco Translate on my testing site, there are 3+ entries for the same word (albeit being used in different areas in WooCommerce)
• Have you ruled out any caching plugins on the front-end? It could simply be that the strings have been translated but the HTML being rendered on the front-end are still outdated/cached.

Thank you for your reply.

Just for the record i downloaded .po file, not .pot here is the screenshot of the file:

https://prnt.sc/7akIIXVBdMKR

https://prnt.sc/47MFXJxuSRxD

does this matter? As far as i see is the latest release.

and also another interesting thing is that in this file i see only 1 “Subtotal:” and not 3+ entries as you said. I have no idea why?

Hi @lesi2000,

Have you tried syncing the file as mentioned by my colleague?

Alternatively, you can try using the “Say What?” plugin to quickly edit strings in plugins or themes for customization or translation purposes, you can learn more about it here:?https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-localization/#translate-or-replace-default-text.

Additionally, if you find a translation is missing or isn’t accurate in your language, you can contribute to the translation for it by following this guide! https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-localization/#translating-woocommerce-into-your-language.

Finally, please keep in mind that translations for WooCommerce are done by the community—WooCommerce.com does not maintain them directly.

I hope this helps!
-OP

Hi and thank you for your reply

Have you tried?syncing?the file as mentioned by my colleague?

as far as i see this is part of the loco translate documentation and i am not using the plugin. In fact I would like to have as less plugins as possible on this site, and that’s why i would like to translate it manually uploading files. to the language folder.

Additionally, if you find a translation is missing or isn’t accurate in your language, you can contribute to the translation for it by following this guide!?https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-localization/#translating-woocommerce-into-your-language.

The translation is just fine, but it is not suitable for my needs.

Finally, please keep in mind that translations for WooCommerce are done by the community—WooCommerce.com does not maintain them directly.

The community did great! I appreciate all translations they did. All i want to do is manually translate one string.

So do you gave any ideas where i may be doing wrong? Do i need to upload to po mo files in another directory?

Thank you for reaching back, clarifying things further @lesi2000 .

Best to proceed by perusing the official documentation on translating WooCommerce, if the chance to do so did not appear already; linked here, for your convenience.

It includes various options one can take, to suit their particular site’s needs.

I trust that points you in the right direction, but if you have more questions, let us know.

We’re happy to help.