First Steps

Before you get started Before you get started

As you can imagine, coordinating translations for a project as large as WordPress can be complicated! Volunteers and community leaders have put a lot of time and energy into creating documentation to help you get started as quickly and efficiently as possible.

In order to take advantage of those resources, it is recommended that you:

  • Check your locale’s website for any documentation about how to translate and where to communicate with other translation contributors.
  • Actively communicate with the other people in the team for your locale. This way, your translation efforts will be more efficient and have better total quality.
  • Review your locale’s Style Guide or Glossary to make sure your translations help to maintain consistency across the locale.
  • When translating, please have the general expectations on translations in mind.

If you are new to the Polyglots community, introduce yourself – either in your local Slack or in the global #polyglots channel on the WordPress.org Slack. It is a good way to connect with other translators and to get initial feedback or advice on what to do next.

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Contributing your first translations Contributing your first translations

You can start suggesting translations by following these simple steps:

  1. Log in to WordPress.org or create a new account
  2. Go to translate.wordpress.org
  3. Find your locale and click Contribute Translation
  4. Select the type of project (WordPress core, Themes, Plugins, Meta, or Apps)
  5. Click the Translate Project button for one of the listed items
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  6. Select one of the items under Set / Sub Project. (Clicking on the number under Untranslated will bring you directly to the untranslated strings.)
  7. Here, you will see a list of strings. To contribute your translation, click the Details link on the string to translate (you can also double-click the row to open the translation editor.)Screenshots 09/06/2015 19:55:32
  8. Enter your translation, then click Suggest new translationScreenshots 09/06/2015 19:56:54

Great! You made your first contribution to WordPress!

Once you’ve made some suggestions, you’ll need to reach out to your team and have them reviewed. For more information, you can check this page next.

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