- What is Astra Pro Add on?
- What Is a Child Theme and How To Install It for Astra?
- How to Activate Astra Pro Addon License?
- How to Get License Key of Astra Pro?
- How to Install Astra Pro Plugin?
- Getting Started with Astra Pro Addon Plugin
- Getting error – The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet?
- Do Not See License Activation Form for Astra Pro Addon Plugin?
- How to Install Astra Theme?
- Astra – Customize the Submenu
- The Blank Screen in the Customizer Area
- How to use the color palette of the Astra theme
- How to Import / Export Astra Customizer Settings
- How To Disable Logo Cropping
- How to Create a Sticky Sidebar for Your WooCommerce Shop Page
- How to use dynamic customizer from Astra 4.0.0
- How to Change the Typography of the Astra Menu
- Simplify Your Site Design with the New Style Guide
- How to Translate Astra Theme / Plugins in Your Own Language using GlotPress?
- How to Turn Astra Multilingual with WPML?
- How To Translate Site Builder With WPML?
- How to Translate Astra Strings with WPML?
- How Translations can be Manually Exported and Uploaded to the Site?
- How to Turn Astra Website Multilingual with Polylang?
- How to Translate Categories, Tags, and Astra Strings with Polylang
- How to Turn Astra Website Multilingual with TranslatePress?
- How to translate the WooCommerce string?
- Astra theme String Translation for WooCommerce
- How to Change “Add to Cart” button text?
- Translating the Advanced Custom Fields with WPML
- Footer Custom Text Helper Strings
- Does Astra support Beaver Themer Plugin?
- Increasing the PHP Memory Limit of Your Website
- How to Disable Header or Footer for a Landing Page or Post?
- Where Does Astra Primary Color Setting Take Effect?
- How to Adjust the Width of Your Sidebar?
- How to Update the Plugin Manually from WordPress Backend?
- Recommended Settings for Elementor and the Astra Theme
- Recommended Settings for Beaver Builder and the Astra Theme
- How Do License Upgrades Work?
- How to Renew Yearly License?
- How to Apply For Brainstorm Force Affiliate Program? (Become Astra Affiliate)
- How to Manage License on Store?
- How To Update Your Payment Method?
- How do I check my Support Ticket History?
- Frequently Asked Questions – VIP Priority Support
- How to Process Refund Requests?
- Fix Swap Sections Not Working on Mobile (Old Astra Header)
- How to Remove Google Fonts Suggestions in Astra Theme?
- Remove default stretched block layout spacing
- How to Change the Logo on Specific Pages?
- How to remove horizontal & vertical gallery layouts from a single product page?
- Introducing New Filter to Enable/Disable Rank-Math Theme Support
- Enable/Disable YouTube videos from Astra admin dashboard
- How to Fix the Line Height Unit being converted to “EM”?
- How to Change WordPress Post labels to Projects
- Fix for – The PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) Error
- Fix for – Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION
- How to fix Fatal Error / White Screen of Death?
- Fix for- cURL error 51: SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name ‘websitedemos.net’
- Getting error – The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet?
- ‘The preview could not be loaded’ Pop Up with Astra and Elementor
- Troubleshooting Steps ( with Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin )
- How to Deal with Update Issues in Astra Theme and Astra Pro Addon?
- Blog Featured Image Size Not Working / Error in Image Processing Library
How to Translate Astra Theme / Plugins in Your Own Language using GlotPress?
Astra is 100% translation ready, comes with .po / .mo files and can be translated using any softwares such as POEdit, GlotPress, etc. Out of them all, we recommend GlotPress.
GlotPress is an online software that is used by WordPress for translations. The best part of GlotPress is the community. Anyone can login to GlotPress and contribute in translating the project, suggest corrections, validate existing translations. As a outcome of this, projects are usually translated faster and in more accurate manner.
In the post below, I will explain how GlotPress works and how you can use it to translate Astra in your own language.
Step 1. Visit the GlotPress Project.
GlotPress for Astra Theme is hosted on WordPress Repository here and Astra Pro can be translated here.
Step 2: Login or Register a new account.
Step 3: Choose your language from the list. (Screenshot)

On the language page, you will see the current state of translation of the language and list of other translators who might have already translated contributed in translating the project. You might find some other terms as well which might not be very obvious. So let me explain what they mean.
- Untranslated: are the strings that are not yet translated by anyone and need work.
- Waiting: are the strings that are translated by contributors, but yet need approval by the validators.
- Fuzzy: is a string is marked a fuzzy if it is translated differently by different translators. The language validator (admins) can choose the best string out of such duplicates to mark it translated.
- Translated: Strings that are already translated and don’t need any further work.
Step 4: Click on the name of your language to see all available strings (Screenshot)
Step 5: Click on any string and translate it (Screenshot)
Once you translate the strings, project validators take a look at them and approve them.
Once the validator approves the translations or makes updates, the latest transnational automatically appears as an update in the WordPress backend if the project is on WordPress.org Repository. For projects that are not on the WordPress.org Repository (like Astra Pro Addon Plugin), project developers usually ship the completed translations through their project files with the updates.
Would you like to become a Translation Validator?
If you’re interested in becoming a validator, please get in touch with us with the details as below –
- Your WordPress.org username
- Your username on our GlotPress Portal here.
- The locale you would like to become validator for.
- Details of your previous translations, etc if you have any.
Once you submit the request, we can get you added as the translation validator. Translation validators are able to approve the translated strings so they can be shipped to all users.
Need to add translation in your project immediately?
Should you wish to implement this translation in your website immediately, you can export the current translation file in the .po & .mo format and use on your website by uploading it to the languages folder using FTP / SFTP with correct naming convention.
- For themes: wp-content/languages/themes/
- For plugins: wp-content/languages/plugins/
Correct naming convention is very important. This will make sure that WordPress understands what language you are referring to. Be sure to prefix the text domain before the language code. Capitalization is also important here.
For languages codes, please refer this list.
Text domain can be found in the style.css file of the theme, or main PHP file of the plugin.
Examples of file names for Astra theme –
- For German: “astra-de_DE.po” & “astra-de_DE.mo”
- For French: “astra-fr_FR.po” & “astra-fr_FR.mo”
Please note, we’re adding translation files in the /wp-content/languages/ directory. Many tutorials on other websites might ask to upload the file inside a theme or plugin’s folder. However, it’s not a recommended way as, with every theme or plugin update, you will lose all the translations and edits you have done.
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