2023 · Creator

Custom Translation API for WordPress

WordPress plugin that integrates a custom translation API to translate themes, plugins, and core strings programmatically — bypasses the GlotPress workflow.

The challenge

GlotPress is the canonical WordPress translation pipeline but it doesn't fit teams using DeepL, Google Translate, or internal translation APIs. There's no programmatic way to push themes/plugins through a custom service.

The result

A WordPress plugin that integrates a custom translation API to translate themes, plugins, and core strings programmatically, with cache-aware batch translation and bypass of the GlotPress workflow.

Year: 2023
Role: Creator
Stack: 4 teches
Status: Published

Overview

A WordPress plugin that hooks into the translation loading pipeline to fetch strings from a custom translation API at runtime, replacing the default .mo file lookup.

Use Cases

Projects that maintain translations in a custom CMS and want WordPress to pull them dynamically
Multi-tenant setups where each client has their own translation set
Fast iteration on translations without regenerating .mo files