Title: Translation Help
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Translation Help

 *  [wpjoshua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpjoshua/)
 * (@wpjoshua)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-help/)
 * I’m trying to translate a plugin but am having trouble. Can someone explain how
   to take someone else’s plugin that is written in German, change all the text 
   strings so they use _e(), and create the translation file for English so that
   it will use the English translation on the default English WordPress installation?
 * In case that wasn’t clear, the plugin author needs the plugin to remain in German
   so he can continue development. The translator wants to help out by making it
   run in English, but he can’t figure out how get the German-to-English to work
   in a default English WordPress installation? I’ve never done a translation before.
   There are lots of examples of English-to-Other Languages, but I can’t find any
   where the original plugin language is something else?

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 *  [LostInNetwork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lostinnetwork/)
 * (@lostinnetwork)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-help/#post-615252)
 * Get PoEdit. Use it to create a translation file once you have manually inserted
   all those _e() and __()
 * In vi editor you can do all sorts of search-and-replace actions with as complicated
   regular expressions as you can comprehend. Much better than WinWord. Enjoy 🙂
 * I don’t know about default languages and such, as I have not really done a lot
   of translations – and none where the original language would be in nonenglish.
 *  Thread Starter [wpjoshua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpjoshua/)
 * (@wpjoshua)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-help/#post-615335)
 * Yeah, I’m using poedit. When I’ve added all those _e()’s but the site just displays
   whatever I have in the parenthesis.
 *  Thread Starter [wpjoshua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpjoshua/)
 * (@wpjoshua)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-help/#post-615366)
 * So does anyone even know if it is possible to write a plugin in a language other
   than English, and then have it work in an environment where everything else is
   translated from English?
 *  Thread Starter [wpjoshua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpjoshua/)
 * (@wpjoshua)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-help/#post-615416)
 * Anyone know where I can learn more about translation of plugins?

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-help/#post-615416)
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