Title: Plugin Translation Best Pratice
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin Translation Best Pratice

 *  [dropshot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dropshot/)
 * (@dropshot)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-translation-best-pratice/)
 * I have tried to find the best practice for translating plugins and keep the language
   files safe from plugin updates.
 * For most plugins it works to put it in wp language directory
 * /wp-content/languages/plugins/[pluginname]-se_SV.po
    /wp-content/languages/plugins/[
   pluginname]-se_SV.mo
 * My problem is that this file is overrided by files i the plugin language folder
 * /wp-content/plugins/[pluginname]/languages/[pluginname]-se_SV.po
    /wp-content/
   plugins/[pluginname]/languages/[pluginname]-se_SV.mo
 * So, my language file is safe from updates i the wp lang dir. But it is not loaded
   when the same language file is plugin folder. Is it possible with a functions
   snippet or anything to change the priority and load…
 * /wp-content/languages/plugins/[pluginname]-se_SV.po
 * …first??

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