Category: Content Management Systems

This post is part of the sub-series on Translating a ClassicPress plugin which is part of the Translating a ClassicPress plugin series.

The plugin version of GlotPress is easy to install on ClassicPress; on the ClassicPress site it is to be installed into, navigate to the Add New page of the Plugins.

Enter glotpress in the search field; the first result should be the plugin, so click the Install Now button:

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This post is part of the sub-series on Translating a ClassicPress plugin with GlotPress which is part of the Translating a ClassicPress plugin with GlotPress series. In the previous part of the wider series, I blogged about using PO Edit to translate a plugin.

PO Edit is not the only tool available for translating a ClassicPress plugin; there is another one called GlotPress. I tend to view PO Edit as a tool for one person to create translation sets for ClassicPress, although it does support collaboration. GlotPress on the other hand is intended for the collaborative translations of plugins and themes.

GlotPress comes in two flavours:

1. Standalone website
2. Plugin

The plugin works with both ClassicPress and WordPress and can also be used to translate any software which uses gettext. Over the course of this series, I will be looking at the plugin version of GlotPress.

Translating a ClassicPress plugin with GlotPress
What is GlotPress?
Download and install GlotPress
Creating administrators
Create a project
Import translation template
Import translations
Create new translation set
Export translations

As part of my wider series on Translating a ClassicPress plugin with GlotPress, I am taking a look at the ways in which a plugin is internationalized and localized.

The second method of translating a plugin I am going to look at is GlotPress; this is a web app intended for collaboration on translations. It is used by the ClassicPress project itself.

Translating a ClassicPress plugin with GlotPress
What is GlotPress?
Download and install GlotPress
Creating administrators
Create a project
Import translation template
Import translations
Create new translation set
Export translations

This post is part of the sub-series on Translating a ClassicPress plugin with Poedit which is part of the Translating a ClassicPress plugin with Poedit series.

With a translation template created, people can now use it to translate into other languages, which is what I am going to cover in this post.

Launch Poedit and click on the large Create new translation button on the main screen:

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This post is part of the sub-series on Translating a ClassicPress plugin with Poedit which is part of the Translating a ClassicPress plugin with Poedit series.

With Pedit installed we can use it to localise a ClassicPress plugin.

The first to doing this is to create a template. As I am using the free version I cannot use the Translate WordPress theme or plug-in option, so click the (File menu) and select (New…):

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With the Windows version of Poedit downloaded launch the downloaded setup application.

Accept the terms of the license agreement and click Next:

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This post is part of the sub-series on Translating a ClassicPress plugin which is part of the Translating a ClassicPress plugin series.

Poedit is available as a free download fow Windows, Mac and Linux. I am going to be showing the Windows version, so click the large purple Free Download for Windows 7+ button:

This will allow you to download and save the file or run the installer.

Translating a ClassicPress plugin with Poedit
What is Poedit?
Download Poedit
Install Poedit
Create New Translation Template
Create Translations

This post is part of the sub-series on Translating a ClassicPress plugin with Poedit which is part of the Translating a ClassicPress plugin with Poedit series.

Poedit calls itself the fastest and most convenient way to translate apps and sites with gettext and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux and has two versions available; standard and pro.

Both versions have the same core features with Pro adding collaboration and functionality specific to Wordpress (which would also work with ,a href=’https://www.classicpress.net’>ClassicPress).

Poedit was built to handle translation using gettext, which is used by many PHP projects such as ClassicPress, WordPress and Drupal), Python projects (Django) and many applications running on Linux.

The Poedit features page explains how the translation of strings from code works as this:

• The developer writes their code using gettext APIs.
• The developer extracts all translatable texts in their code and creates a master PO file that translators can work with.
• The translator works through the PO file provided and hands back their translations, one file per language.
• Whenever the source code changes and there are translation differences the developer re-runs the extraction and updates the master PO file accordingly.
• The translator only has to update their translation file to match the master file 100%.

Poedit aims to help with stages 2 through 5 and save both translators and developers time at each stage.

In this series, I will be using the standard Windows version of Poedit.

Translating a ClassicPress plugin with Poedit
What is Poedit?
Download Poedit
Install Poedit
Create New Translation Template
Create Translations

This series is part of the Translating a ClassicPress plugin with Poedit series.

Poedit is a popular tool for translating app and plugins which use the gettext libraries; in this series, I am going to take a look at both installing Poedit and using it to translate a ClassicPress plugin.

Translating a ClassicPress plugin with Poedit
What is Poedit?
Download Poedit
Install Poedit
Create New Translation Template
Create Translations

This series if a is part of the Translating a ClassicPress plugin series.

With the plugin internationalized and next step is to localize it by translating it into another language. There is a number of tools available which can be used to do this. As part of this main series, I am going to cover two of the commonly used tools for translating plugins.

The first is an application called PO Edit which describes itself as the fastest and most convenient way to translate apps and sites with gettext.

The second is the GlotPress plugin for WordPress which works seamlessly with ClassicPress. GlotPress can also be used to translate apps and sites with gettext, but with the added benefit of collaboration.