Theme and plugin translation for Polylang (TTfP)

What is “Theme and plugin translation for Polylang”?

Extension for Polylang plugin (Polylang is an extension to make multilingual WordPress websites.).
Plugin is needed to translate the WordPress themes and plugins by Polylang.

How to configure it?

Select themes and plugins to find texts for translation by Polylang.
In admin dashboard:

Languages -> TTfP Settings 

How it is work?

“Theme and plugin translation for Polylang” automatically searches all files of WordPress themes and plugins. It chooses from this file only those files with extensions:

• php
• inc
• twig

In addition, is implemented the integration with Timber library (read more: http://timber.upstatement.com) – which allows to translate twig’s skins in simple way.
Plugin in searched skins or plugins chooses texts from Polylang functions, such as:

• _e(string $text, string $domain = ‘default’);
• __(string $text, string $domain = ‘default’);
• _x(string $text, string $context, string $domain = ‘default’);
• pll_e(string $text);
• pll__(string $text);
• esc_html(string $text);
• esc_html_e(string $text, string $domain = ‘default’);
• esc_html__(string $text, string $domain = ‘default’);
• _n(string $single, string $plural, int $number, string $domain = ‘default’);
• esc_attr_e(string $text, string $domain = ‘default’);
• esc_attr__(string $text, string $domain = ‘default’);

In your function.php, themes or plugins.

For example:

<p><?php pll_e('My text'); ?></p> <p><?php _e('My another text', 'my_theme'); ?></p> 

On the timber context declare this functions like:

$context['pll_e'] = TimberHelper::function_wrapper('pll_e'); $context['pll_'] = TimberHelper::function_wrapper('pll_'); 

See more on: https://polylang.wordpress.com/documentation/documentation-for-developers/functions-reference/
These functions are defined by Polylang plugin for printing translations.
Thanks “Theme and plugin translation for Polylang” you can find these strings to translate and add to Polylang register on very simple way.
And then you can translate these texts from the admin dashboard.
The scan result can be seen on the tab with translations:

Settings -> Languages -> String translation 

or

Languages -> String translation 

You don’t need programs like poedit – you don’t change files with extensions like: .pot, .po, .mo.
“Theme and plugin translation for Polylang” is highly efficient because the scanner is worked only on admin dashboard in tab:
In dashboard:

Settings -> Languages -> String translation 

or

Languages -> String translation 

Export and import string translation

In dashboard:

Languages -> TTfP Settings 

Filter reference

ttfp_domains 

Allows plugins and themes (in functions.php) to modify list of text domains (unique identifier for retrieving translated strings).
List of text domains is displayed on “TTfP Settings” page to select them for translation by polylang engine.

Example:

add_filter('ttfp_domains', 'custom_ttfp_domains', 10, 1); function custom_ttfp_domains(array $domains):array { $domains[] = "my-custom-domain"; return $domains; } 

Filter reference

ttfp_translation_access 

Returns whether the user has capability to view and edit translations provided by TTfP.

Example:

add_filter('ttfp_translation_access', 'custom_ttfp_translation_access', 10, 1); function custom_ttfp_translation_access(bool $hasAccess):bool { return current_user_can('edit_posts'); }