Translations (Localization)

When you install or update WooCommerce Payments, WordPress will automatically look for a translation file in your language and download it. Having said that, we have not yet translated WooCommerce Payments 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 WooCommerce Payments strings into your own language if that does not occur automatically.

Why some strings are not being translated?

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You 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 WooCommerce Payments into my language?

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The language files for WooCommerce Payments 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 WooCommerce Payments extension in Dutch from the Netherlands, you would translate the strings and create the following translation files:

woocommerce-payments-nl_NL.mo
woocommerce-payments-nl_NL.po

Those two language files would then need to be moved into this directory:

wp-content/languages/plugins/