Create a project

Create your first project by following these steps

Only Team owner and Team manager can create projects in TranslationsPress.

1. Navigate to your TranslationsPress Dashboard and click the Let’s Go! button.

Create a project button

2. Create new project

General

Create project general tab

Name


Give your project a name. It should be your project name.

Slug


Leave the slug field empty. Your project name will be used.

Description


Used in the header of the project’s translation page. Useful for your contributors.

Processing

Mass create translations sets Use languages blueprint to create translations sets based on most used locales in WordPress and also supported by WP-Translations.

VCS Configuration

Create project VCS tab

Source File URL

Enter your GitHub or GitLab project’s URL.
You can use %file% and %line%.
E.g. https://github.com/acme/my-awesome-plugin/blob/master/%file%#L%line%

Access Token

Add your personal access token created in GitHub or GitLab.
More info in our documentation to how to create your token.

Processing

Check Yes if you want to get source strings from VCS repository (requires an access token). To enable automatic string extraction from your GitHub/GitLab projects, you need to create a new webhook.

Language Packs

Create project Language packs tab

Status

Check to activate language packs creation and REST API endpoint.
If your project is hosted on another platform like translatewp.org, it shouldn’t be activated.

Language pack percentage

Setup any percentage to trigger the creation of the project language packs.
Note: TranslationsPress use a 95% percentage, you should leave this field empty only if you have really specific need for your project.

3. Click the create button.

You’re project is now ready to be translated if you filled up the VCS configuration.
If not you just have to Import Originals from your project page.

Create project import sources

Or from your dashboard by clicking on the button

Click the Import Originals button, and from the import interface browse to find your .pot file on your computer

Format: Leave it on Auto Detect, TranslationsPress will do the job for you.

Click the Import button

Your project is now ready to be translated

and showing in your Dashboard