[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #28537: Child Translations

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#28537: Child Translations
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 Reporter:  sooskriszta  |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  I18N         |    Version:
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:               |
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 Every once in a while a website owner or administrator wants to change a
 particular word to something else. The way to do it is to edit/create the
 language files.

 This is a workable but deeply unsatisfying solution. For one it takes a
 LOT of work to find and rename each reference to the particular item
 individually in POedit. More importantly, all the changes would be wiped
 off upon updating WordPress. Further, if someone is using WordPress in a
 non-English language, then they basically have to edit the language file
 which faces the same overwriting issues.

 So, what I propose is this:

 A while ago WordPress implemented Child Themes. This has been an immensely
 successful initiative. We could take inspiration from that and introduce
 Child Translations.

 Essentially, the site admin can create a language file containing ONLY the
 strings that are different on his/her blog compared to standard version of
 the translation. This file is placed in /wp-content/languages/child/ or
 something to that effect. When WordPress loads translations, the ones in
 the file in the child subfolder takes precedence over those in languages
 folder....so strings present in the child subfolder mo are loaded from
 that and the rest of the strings are loaded from the languages mo. When
 translations are updated the languages mo is overwritten with a new
 version, but it doesn't matter as the child mo still outranks it.

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