Shortcuts to Translation Projects

The WordPress project is large, with a lot of different parts. For many locales, a lot of our translation efforts focus on translating themes and plugins. Of course, this includes revisiting the theme and/or plugin page multiple times to finish an existing translation, or to check for new translations.

Here are a few options to save a few clicks when commonly visiting a plugin or translation project.

Finding projects from your profile

Whether you’re working on a new project, or checking one you’ve already contributed to, there’s an easy way to find all the projects that you’ve helped to translate.

To view all the projects to which you’ve contributed translations:

• Go to your WordPress.org profile, by visiting https://profile.wordpress.org/your-username (replacing your-username with your WordPress.org username).
• On the left sidebar, under Activity, click on the Translations tab.
• When you click on the Translations tab, you will be able to see all the locales to which you’ve contributed, and each project you’ve contributed to within that locale.

Clicking on the link for each project will bring you directly to the project page in https://translate.wordpress.org/

Marking a plugin or theme as a favorite

Another way to find projects you’re working on quickly is by adding the theme or plugin to your Favorites. To do this, follow these steps:

• Go to https://wordpress.org, where you will be presented with a menu.

• Within this menu select Plugins or Themes, or if you know the name of the project, enter it within the search bar.

• Then, after you have found the desired plugin or theme, click on it directly to go to its related page on WordPress.org. Once you’ve done that, you will see a screen like this:

• To the left of the Download button, you will see a small heart pictogram, which is gray if not marked/active. To mark the plugin or theme as a favorite, simply click on this heart icon (it will turn red when active).

And that’s it!

To find the full list of your favorites, visit https://wordpress.org and perform a search for any plugin. Then, you will see a My Favorites link on top of the screen.

If you’re a GTE, PTE, or a translator working on translating a specific plugin or theme, you can quickly filter for your favorites by visiting https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/nl/default/wp/ and replacing nl with your locale instead. (In this case, the link above will take you to the translation projects for the Dutch (nl) locale.)

Then, from the Themes or Plugins menu, you can select your favorites by modifying the query as shown below and filtering by My Favorites:

Once you’ve applied the filter, your favorite plugins or themes will be displayed and you can easily access the translation project.