Title: Translation keeps reverting automatically
Last modified: August 30, 2016

---

# Translation keeps reverting automatically

 *  Resolved [bluestandish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluestandish/)
 * (@bluestandish)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-keeps-reverting-automatically/)
 * I make changes and it works. the next morning. I see the changes revert. what’s
   happening. are the language files saved in folders that I am not supposed to?
   by the way I am using it to translate woocomerce. I simply translate some few
   words works fine after saving and the next day everything is gone back. can you
   help?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/)

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

 *  Plugin Author [Tim W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwhitlock/)
 * (@timwhitlock)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-keeps-reverting-automatically/#post-6899188)
 * This is a known issue. [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistence-translations-woocommerce](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/persistence-translations-woocommerce)
 *  Thread Starter [bluestandish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluestandish/)
 * (@bluestandish)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-keeps-reverting-automatically/#post-6899250)
 * ok thank you tim. I created a new woocommerce folder here /wp-content/languages/
   woocommerce. and I copied the .po and .mo files there. it’s working now although
   I am not seeing some of the translations. on the loco plugin, it says 4 untranslated.
   checking and going through the translations, every word that i translated, i 
   can still see the translated version under the translation tab. going through
   the .po and .mo files, i can see all the translations there, but they are not
   reflecting front page. i mean the translations are workign now when i moved to
   the new path or directory i mentioned earlier. but some few words haven’t been
   translated yet although the on the loco plugin and in the .mo and .po file they
   have all been translated.
 *  Plugin Author [Tim W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwhitlock/)
 * (@timwhitlock)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-keeps-reverting-automatically/#post-6899323)
 * this custom folder location is not supported by Loco. It won’t look in there 
   for the files you’ve moved.
 *  Thread Starter [bluestandish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluestandish/)
 * (@bluestandish)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-keeps-reverting-automatically/#post-6899330)
 * so how is it it possible that the other translations are still working. however
   i still have the .po and .mo files within the original path. what i have in the
   custom folder is just a copy. for the first time nothing has changed at least
   in the past 12 hours. And i hope it’s solved. previously all the translations
   worked. the only thing was that after like 30 min, everything went back to original.
   i tried translating on several times and still having the same problem till i
   eventually saw that about two words were not being translated on the cart page(
   cart and quantity). although after a while like some few minutes the rest of 
   the translations would go back to the original. so these two words that were 
   not able to translate started even before i copied the .mo and .po files to the
   custom folder. the only difference now is that, it seems the translations are
   not going to revert automatically, but the words that couldn’t translate when
   they hadn’t been moved still are not translated. the others are now. i don’t 
   know if something has happened to the file. is it possible that I download fresh
   woocommerce .mo and .po files again and then translate and replace all the old.
   mo and .po files with the new translation files?
 *  Thread Starter [bluestandish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluestandish/)
 * (@bluestandish)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-keeps-reverting-automatically/#post-6899348)
 * or should i go into the .pot file and change the original phrases directly. or
   the original phrases found in the .po file can be changed directly for the changes
   to take effect?

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

The topic ‘Translation keeps reverting automatically’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://ps.w.org/loco-translate/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1000676)
 * [Loco Translate](https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/loco-translate/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/loco-translate/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/loco-translate/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/loco-translate/reviews/)

## Tags

 * [.mo](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mo/)
 * [duplicate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/duplicate/)
 * [po](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/po/)
 * [reverts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/reverts/)

 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [bluestandish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluestandish/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-keeps-reverting-automatically/#post-6899348)
 * Status: resolved