Bulk Search & Replace

Hello @justsmilepeople

You can search in the String Translation Interface – Regular tab using the search option on the right side. This will return all the places on your site where that specific string appears, so you can either edit the translations one by one or delete them in bulk.

I can see that you’ve already used this to search for the double dot issue in the Chinese translations that you mentioned.
I’m sorry for the inconvenience this has caused – this is indeed a bug, and we do have an internal task regarding this issue, which will be addressed in a future update. However, at the moment, we don’t have an estimated timeframe for the fix. I’ll be sure to let you know as soon as this bug has been resolved in an update.

For the moment, we have created a hook that should fix the issue, so you can prevent the punctuation marks from doubling with the following code:

• Create an empty plugin like this: https://gist.github.com/sareiodata/76f701e01db6685829db
• Add the following code to the end of it:

// Disable punctuation pattern restoration 
add_filter( 'trp_disable_restore_punctuation_patterns', 'trpc_disable_restore_punctuation_patterns' );

function trpc_disable_restore_punctuation_patterns( $disabled ) {
    return true;
}

• Install this plugin via FTP (copy it inside wp-content/plugins) or create a zip archive with it and install it via the WordPress plugin upload functionality.

Also, please note that this code will not modify the already automatically translated sentences to eliminate the extra punctuation marks. Those translations you will have to manually modify, or you could delete them so they are regenerated with the correct punctuation.

Let me know how it goes and if this plugin works correctly for you.

Kind regards,

Anca