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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.

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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

Architecture

  • Hooks into gettext, gettext_with_context, and ngettext filters
  • Caches API responses in a transient to avoid per-request API calls
  • Falls back to the default WordPress translation if the API returns nothing
  • Supports theme translations, plugin translations, and WP core strings

Tech

PHP, WordPress translation API, REST client, transient caching.

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