Loco Translate: WordPress Plugin Tutorial

This Loco Translate tutorial tackles the last gap in a multilingual site: the buttons and labels your theme and plugins ship with, the text you never wrote yourself. Even a perfectly translated page can break the spell when a Read more link or a form button is still in English. Using the free plugin, you will learn to translate those interface strings right inside WordPress and keep your work safe when plugins update.

What you'll learn

Translating your own posts and pages only covers part of a bilingual site; the interface strings your theme and plugins arrive with often stay in the original language and give the whole site away. Loco Translate matters because it lets you fill those gaps yourself, editing translations directly in WordPress without touching code. In this course you will learn how theme and plugin translation fits alongside your content, the core workflow for creating a language and editing strings in the built-in editor, and how to keep your translations update-safe so an upgrade does not wipe them out. You will finish able to complete a tidy, fully translated multilingual site.

Inside the course

• The Third Layer & Installing Loco Translate
• Translating Strings: The Core Workflow
• Maintenance, Sync & the Multilingual Stack Complete

Who this course is for

This beginner course suits anyone building a multilingual WordPress site who has noticed stray English in buttons, links and labels. It pairs naturally with content-translation tools, so it helps people already part-way through a bilingual build. No coding is required, and our free written tutorials and live training cover the wider multilingual setup if you want the full picture.

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