Force Update Translations

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1. ★★★★★ Irina

   4.7y ago

   Very handy when editing a translation! Thanks for the plugin you need!

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2. ★★★★★ Yui

   5.9y ago

   Fetches freshly translated strings in a jiffy. Essential.

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3. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   5.9y ago

   Oh, this is an awesome plugin so I fully localize this plugin’s UI and page for zh_TW. This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Alex Lion (阿力獅).

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4. ★★★★★ Martin Sauter

   5.9y ago

   If you are translating a plug-in or a theme, this plug-in is a must-have. It allows you to pull your translations from translate.wordpress.org into your website to see these translations in context – which is often the only way to tell whether something is well translated or not. In the most recent version of the plug-in, this works not only for plug-in translations but for theme translations as well. Easy to use, works fine.

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5. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   6.2y ago

   This plugin is very helpful! We able to use themes/plugins in our language, even it is not 100% translation.

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6. ★★★★★ NSquared

   6.9y ago

   I am so glad to find this plugin. We have international users for our plugin that help out by submitting translations. The problem is, there is no way for them to use the translations until it goes through a formal approval process. This is a wonderful solution, we can point our users to this plugin so they can use the translations right away. Thanks so much for making this!

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7. ★★★★★ Bonaldi

   7.4y ago

   Bad description of the features in the readme: no possibility to import translations for themes. Bad support.

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8. ★★★★★ Lidia Pellizzaro

   7.7y ago

   When I translate plugins or themes I need to see partial translations to check I’m doing right. Exporting .mo files was boring me… just when I found this plugin! Very useful. Thank you for developing it.

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.3 Force Update Translations <= 0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2025-09-22 CVE-2025-58236 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 0.5 Patched in 0.6.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 47 languages, 10 at 90% or more

Plus 23 more locales with partial translations.

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Competes with

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• TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation 400K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
• Cyr-To-Lat 300K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
• Translate WordPress – Google Language Translator 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A

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Force Update Translations: 1K+ active installs, 4.6★ (10 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-25. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/force-update-translations