GlotDict

GlotDict extension implements many new features to improve the quality of translation and speed up the process on translate.wordpress.org, where users can translate plugins, themes, WordPress itself and other related projects.

PS: If you are using NoScript or Privacy Badger enable wordpress.org domain or else the extension will not work!

Features

• Checks for:
  • missing glossary terms
  • missing start capitalization
  • missing start and end space
  • missing end hellip …
  • missing end symbols ; . ! : 、。؟ ？
  • straight single ' or double quote " usage
• Highlights non-breaking-spaces
• Review translations button to show and count warnings
• Links Glossary terms to Consistency tool
• Autoloads Consistency suggestions in the editor
• Easy insertion of non-translatable items
• Bulk Actions in the footer
• Auto-save after "Copy from Original" bulk action.
• Link and scroll to locale button for the Translation Global Status
• Right column with quick Approve/Reject/Fuzzy buttons
• Character and Word counts in Meta panel
• Localized dates in the Meta panel
• QuickLinks in Meta menu - open or copy link
• Optional sticky header
• Marks older than 6 months strings - black border
• Notices counts for Approved, Rejected, Fuzzied, Submitted and Selected rows
• Daily update of the list of locales
• Anonymous author search filter
• Dropdown Pagination
• Custom Style Guide link
• Many hotkeys and shortcuts

Hotkeys

Settings

• Don’t validate strings ending with ..., ., :
• Don’t validate strings ending with ;.!:、。؟？！
• Don’t show a warning when the translation doesn't contain an initial uppercase letter when the original string starts with one.
• Don’t show a warning when the translation is missing a glossary term.
• Don’t visualize non-breaking-spaces in preview.
• Hide warning for initial space in translation.
• Hide warning for trailing space in translation.
• Show a warning for missing curly apostrophe in preview.
• Show a warning for using non-typographic quotes in preview (except for HTML attributes quotes).
• Auto-submit the Copy From Original Bulk Action (Warning: When enabled will submit all originals).
• Auto-copy original to clipboard on editor opening.
• Don’t validate strings during "Copy From Original" Bulk Action to bypass validation. (Warning: When enabled will submit originals with Glossary terms or other warnings.)

Download

• Firefox Instructions: Download
• Chrome Instructions: Download

The pack-ext.py script generate 2 different packages one for Firefox using Manifest V2 and for Chrome Manifest V3.

Spell Checking?

If you are looking for spell checking we recommend Grammarly and LanguageTool as they both provide browser extensions for spelling and grammar checking.

Update times and release

When the developers of the extension think that a new release is ready and tested, they create a new release and publish it on Firefox and Chrome addons stores. Then, we have to wait a few hours for Chrome and Firefox. After that, all installations will be updated automatically.

Additional resources

Videos

• GlotDict – How a Browser Extension Changes Your Translation Workflow - 2016 (Daniele Scasciafratte)
• GlotDict, Pte-Bot and BulkRejectGP – Why Your Community Needs A Glossary - 2017 (Daniele Scasciafratte)
• GlotDict demonstration - 2021 (Vlad Timotei)

Presentations

• Translating english variants with GlotDict (Garrett Hyder)

Contributors

Maintainers

• Daniele Scasciafratte Donate
• Garrett Hyder
• Loïc Antignac
• Vlad Timotei

Other contributors

• Olegs Belousovs - The ideator
• Pascal Casier - For the help with the glossaries and hotkeys
• Aurélien Joahny - For all the patches
• Jb Audras - Ex co-Maintainer