Translations keep reverting back

Please see FAQ #17 https://localise.biz/help/wordpress/translate-plugin/faqs#17

Who marked this as resolved? I sure didn’t.

Thanks for your reply, I’ve already read your FAQ, that’s why I submitted this support ticket.

Have you got any other tips?

Best,

Bart

I marked it as resolved, because I presented the only solution available. The solution offered will fix your problem if you’re able to disable automatic translation updates using the filter as suggested.

Okay, to recap because perhaps I am doing it wrong.

According to the article you pointed towards.

– I must add the following filter:

add_filter( 'auto_update_translation', '__return_false' );

– I must add this filter in a Must-Use plugin located in the following folder:

/wp-content/mu-plugins/

This folder is empty.

The latest update by Buddypress was published the 2nd of March 2016 (which is a while ago and can’t be the source of the disappearing translations).

Best,

Bart

I must add this filter in a Must-Use plugin located in the following folder:

I think they are telling you to create a plugin in which to add your code. Presumably to guarantee that your code is run when you need it to be run.

Thanks for the help! I suppose it’s working now, not sure yet but we’ll see.

If any one else is struggling with this issue, here is an actual description on what to do:

• create a folder in /wp-content/
• rename it to /mu-plugins/
• inside this folder create a .php file and give it a name
• my-plugin.php will do just fine

In the head of my-plugin.php add the following text:

<?php
/**
 * Plugin Name: My Plugin
 * Description: Disable automatic translation updates
 * Author:      rockitman
 * License:     GNU General Public License v3 or later
 * License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
 */

// Basic security, prevents file from being loaded directly.
defined( 'ABSPATH' ) or die( 'Cheatin’ uh?' );

Below this text paste the following line to prevent automatic language updates from happening:

add_filter( 'auto_update_translation', '__return_false' );

• save the my-plugin.php without the php closing tag at the end
• upload the my-plugin.php to the folder: /wp-content/mu-plugins/

And your done!

This is the entire file structure of my-plugin.php:

<?php
/**
 * Plugin Name: My Plugin
 * Description: Disable automatic translation updates
 * Author:      rockitman
 * License:     GNU General Public License v3 or later
 * License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
 */

// Basic security, prevents file from being loaded directly.
defined( 'ABSPATH' ) or die( 'Cheatin’ uh?' );

add_filter( 'auto_update_translation', '__return_false' );

For anyone reading this. Please disregard the description above, because it is simply not working. This morning all my files were reverted back to the original state and all of my translations are yet again, gone.

There is no solution for this issue. I feel that the plugin is unreliable, unless you don’t mind painstakingly re-translating all of your files every single day.

I haven’t given up and figured out it is probably a Buddypress issue. As soon as I adjusted the translations using Loco Translate, my wordpress got the message that buddypress had a newer translation file available.

What I did to resolve the overwriting of language files was to create a special folder:

Copy-paste the buddypress po and mo files to a folder you need to create here:
/wp-content/languages/buddypress/

That should do it. The previous ‘solution’ of using a MUST USE plugin, did not stick.

Thanks for the update.

Note that version 2.0 (currently in beta) provides a “safe” directory at “languages/loco”.