Polylang Theme Strings
Automatic scanning of strings translation in the theme and registration of them in Polylang plugin. Extension for Polylang plugin.
4(37 reviews)
·6.0K+ active installs·Updated 7 years agoAs of April 2026, Polylang Theme Strings is a WordPress polylang plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4/5 rating from 37 reviews. It has been downloaded 103K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 55% this week. Top alternative: Connect Polylang for Elementor.
4/537 reviews
6.0K+active installs
103K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
What is «Polylang Theme Strings» and what for is it?
This plugin gives additional features to the plugin Polylang. It automatically scans all templates files and scripts of the active WP theme (and all plugins) for available strings that can be translated. For example:
pll__('...');pll_e('...');
and adds them to the Polylang registery, after what you can manage the translation of finded strings using the administration panel. It will make your life easier for the development of multilanguage’s projects, because you will not need to enter the needed strings to translate manually – the plugin will do all the work for you.
Don’t forget that in the example are described the PHP-function calls, that is why they have to be inside of PHP-tags.
How works «Polylang Theme Strings»?
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Needs to be updated
by tfbbbbb·4 years ago
A) It gives errors in the debug logs.
B) It fucks up the woocommerce default translations. Adding .po and .mo files in wp-content/languages/ etc wont help, because this plugin overrides this somehow. Deactivating this plugin brings forth the translations. Used loco translate to try to fix this, but without results. Deactivating this plugin is the key – It needs to be fixed.
very good
by tiagopmartins·4 years ago
what I needed to translate, I got it with this free Plugin.
Creates a strange language mixture
by Martin Sauter·6 years ago
I used Polylang Theme Strings in a WordPress 5.2.4 installation with two languages (EN & DE) and the Job Board Manager plugin.
As long as Polylang Theme Strings was activated, most German translations did not show up correctly in the frontend although a complete German language pack was present. Even in the WP backend parts of the interface was mixed (i.e. under the “Seiten” menu there was a “All Pages” submenu instead of “Alle Seiten”).
Was good, now it’s too buggy
by kozakr·6 years ago
The plugin is changing the site language to English. And it somehow stopped registering new strings.
Better than WPML… and free
by Mariela Zárate·6 years ago
You are awesome! Thanks!
Download Trends
Today: 16Yesterday: 14This week: 62Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v4.0
90.0%
v3.5
5.5%
Other
4.5%
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Changelog
4.0 (2018-08-15)
- Integrated new feature: include the search for native string functions of WordPress (configurable on setting page).
- Integrated new feature: include the search of strings-translation for WordPress plugins (configurable on setting page).
- Merged the menu of «Polylang» and «Polylang Theme Strings».
- Own plugin settings page.
- Fixed small bug in the theme-files search-system.
…and 3 more changes
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