Many open source projects span regions, countries and dialects and need to support a variety of translations, GlotPress is here to help you collaborate online with your translators to ensure your users see your software in their native language.
GlotPress has two versions, a standalone version and this WordPress plugin version. At this time these two versions are functionally similar, but the plugin version is likely to start moving away from the standalone version in future versions. For the rest of this document, any reference to “GlotPress” should be taken as the plugin.
For more information about GlotPress, feel free to visit the channels listed below in the “Communication” section.
So who should use GlotPress?
Any developer of software that uses gettext, like WordPress theme or plugin authors. But that’s just the start, anyone who uses a gettext bases system can use GlotPress to help their translators collaborate.
This plugin wouldn’t be possible without all the hard work that has gone in to the standalone version of GlotPress and we’d like to thank all those who contribute to it.
Support
For basic support questions, please use the WordPress.org support forums.
If you have a bug or feature request please visit the issues list to help improve it in future.
If you’d like to work on something and there’s not currently an issue for it, open a new issue and describe your proposed change before jumping into coding.
Communication
- GitHub Home
- Blog
- WordPress Slack: #glotpress (for development only)
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.