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Loco Translate provides in-browser editing of WordPress translation files and integration with automatic translation services.

It also provides Gettext/localization tools for developers, such as extracting strings and generating templates.

Features include:

Official Loco WordPress plugin by Tim Whitlock.
For more information please visit our plugin page.

Keyboard shortcuts

The PO file editor supports the following keyboard shortcuts for faster translating:

Mac users can use ⌘ Cmd instead of Ctrl.

Basic usage:

Translators: To translate a theme into your language, follow these steps:

  1. Create the protected languages directory at wp-content/languages/loco/themes
  2. Ensure this directory writeable by the web server
  3. Find your theme in the list at Loco Translate > Themes
  4. Click + New language and follow the on-screen prompts.

Developers: To translate your own theme or plugin for distribution, follow these steps:

  1. Create a languages subdirectory in your bundle’s root directory
  2. Ensure this directory writeable by the web server
  3. Find the bundle at either Loco Translate > Themes or Loco Translate > Plugins
  4. Click + Create template and follow the on-screen prompts to extract your strings.
  5. Click + New language and follow the on-screen prompts to add your own translations.

Installing manually:

  1. Unzip all files to the wp-content/plugins/loco-translate directory
  2. Log into WordPress admin and activate the ‘Loco Translate’ plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu
  3. Go to Loco Translate > Home in the left-hand menu to start translating

More information on using the plugin is available here.

Please visit the FAQs page on our website for the most common issues.

How do I use Loco Translate?

Try our Guides and Tutorials.

How do I get more help?

If you have a problem using Loco Translate, please try our help pages.
There’s a lot of information there to help you understand how it works and the most common pitfalls to avoid.

To report a bug please start a new topic in the support forum,
but please check the FAQs for similar issues first.
If you decide to submit a bug report please post enough relevant detail for us to reproduce your issue.

Is my data protected?

We don’t collect your data or track you. See the plugin privacy notice.

This is a great tool. I’ve been using it for years, and it has never let me down.

Loco Translate is very easy to use. It helps translate themes and plugins quickly without any hassle.

Plugin conflict issue between WooCommerce andLocotranslate (blocking bug on (Woo) product variation management functions in the product sheet and image updates).Latest versions of WP, WooCommerce, Loco, and PHP 8.3I’m waiting for a correction (from one or the other) to re-edit this comment. Thank you!

A must-have plugin for managing the lifecycle of translations in custom plugins and themes. There’s a steep learning curve to climb when it comes to language and translation management. This plugin helps a lot and works really well. Also impressed with the speed of response to my help topic. Thanks Tim!

Great for translate plugins in backend and frontend.Especially helpful in combination with Loco AI.

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