WP Easy Translate

composer require sourcerer-mike/wp-easy-translate

This tool helps you with your tranlations. Real developer use their console ;), _(*1)

wp-easy-translate theme twentysixteen
wp-easy-translate plugin akismet

And then the magic happens:, _(*2)

All translations with will be fetched.
Your source files (po, php or json) will be updated.
The binaries (MO-Files) will be updated to.

Translate with ease!, _(*3)

Formats

Run wp-easy-translate themes --format php to get a PHP-Array:, _(*4)

<?php return array (
  'some_textdomain' => 
  array (
    '' => 
    array (
      'domain' => 'some_textdomain',
      'lang' => 'de',
      'plural-forms' => 'nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);',
    ),
    'General' => 
    array (
      0 => '',
      1 => 'Allgemeines', // THIS IS VERY THE TRANSLATION HAPPENS
    ),
    'Author' =>

    ...

My favourite! Or wp-easy-translate themes --format json to have a nice and clean list:, _(*5)

{
    "General": "Allgemein",
    "Author": "Autor",
    "Steak": "Schnitzel",
    "Tank": "Panzerwagen",
}

Formats like YAML are planned. Even CSV will come so that your customer can contribut with translations made in Excel. I guess they don't like to edit JSON or YAML files ;), _(*6)

Updates every time

Work and run wp-easy-translate themes again to update your PO-Files:, _(*7)

Obsolete translations will be removed
New translations will be added
MO-Files are updated every time.

Copy and Translate

Everytime wp-easy-translate theme foo runs there will be a "empty.po" (or "empty.php", "empty.json") file in the languages folder of every theme. Just copy it to "de_DE.po" or "en_GB.po" (or "php", "json") and add the translations., _(*8)

With every run of wp-easy-translate theme foo the according MO-File ("de_DE.mo", "en_GB.mo") will be updated., _(*9)