When you install or update WooPayments, WordPress will automatically look for a translation file in your language and download it. Having said that, we have not yet translated WooPayments into every language. Here are the languages we support:
- Chinese (Cantonese)
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- Dutch (Belgium)
- Dutch (Netherlands)
- English (Australia)
- English (Great Britain)
- English (United States)
- French
- French (Belgium)
- French (Canada)
- French (Switzerland)
- German
- German (Austrian)
- German (Switzerland)
- Italian
- Italian (Switzerland)
- Polish
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Spanish
The sections below explain how to translate WooPayments strings into your own language if that does not occur automatically.
Why some strings are not being translated?
↑ Back to topYou may see that some strings are not translated. Up-to-date translations are automatically downloaded for supported languages, but you can manually trigger an update by going to Dashboard > Updates and clicking on the button to update translations.
If the problem persists, you can try manually removing the current plugin translation files and reinstalling them like so:
- Use an FTP client to connect to your site.
- Browse to this directory:
wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-payments/languages/. - Delete all files that have names starting with
woocommerce-payments_*. - Back in your site’s dashboard, go to Dashboard > Updates.
- Click on the button to update translations.
Can I translate WooPayments into my language?
↑ Back to topThe language files for WooPayments can be found within this directory:
wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-payments/languages/
The default English language file is named woocommerce-payments.pot.
With a plugin like Loco Translate or an app like PoEdit, you can use the .pot file to create your own language translation files. For example, if you want a translation of the WooPayments extension in Dutch from the Netherlands, you would translate the strings and create the following translation files:
woocommerce-payments-nl_NL.mowoocommerce-payments-nl_NL.po
Those two language files would then need to be moved into this directory:
wp-content/languages/plugins/