The MasterStudy plugin includes many units, elements, and widgets with dynamic content. The entire website's content—such as pages, posts (courses and their contents), headers, and footers—is made up of these elements and widgets. You can add content directly by editing these pages, elements, and widgets.

If you want to translate your website that uses the MasterStudy plugin, make sure you have already added the content in the desired language to your pages, posts, and other areas.

Dynamic and Static Strings

So there are two types of strings when it comes to translating WordPress website:

• Dynamic Strings - strings that have been entered by the user or can be modified by the user within the plugin or theme settings (no need for other plugins). For example, the name, description, and lessons of the courses, as well as texts in emails, are dynamic. You can change them directly to your language in the course builder or the plugin settings without any third-party plugins.

• Static Strings - these are texts that are hard-coded in your WordPress themes or plugins. They remain the same unless someone manually changes them in the code. For example, you cannot edit texts in your plugin settings, menus in the student dashboard, or any texts inside buttons. These texts don’t change unless the developer updates the code. We need a third-party plugin to translate them.

Technically, translating static strings in WordPress is replacing one word with another, regardless of the language. Here comes Loco Translate to help.

The easiest way to translate the plugin is by using the Loco Translate plugin.

Install Loco Translate

Loco Translate is a free plugin that can be installed from WordPress's default repository.

1. In the WordPress dashboard go to Plugins>Add New Plugin:

1. On the opened page, search for Loco Translate, then install and activate it.

Change The Website and WordPress Language

When you change the website and/or WordPress language, the MasterStudy interface (plugin's static strings) will also change, as long as it has been translated into your chosen language.

You can check the list of translated languages in MasterStudy LMS here.

Change the site Language

1. Open the general settings from the WordPress dashboard: Settings >General

1. Find the Site Language setting and select the language according to your needs:

1. Save the changes:

Change the WordPress (including plugins) Language

1. Go to Edit Profile on the upper-right corner:

Alternatively, you can also follow WordPress Dashboard > Users > Profile:

1. Find the Language setting then choose the one according to your needs:

1. Update the profile settings:

Create the Translation File

Before starting the translation, the translation file should be created.

1. Open the plugins page in Loco Translate by following Loco Translate > Plugins then choose MasterStudy LMS:

1. In the opened page click on New Language:

If you find the language you need in the list, you can freely edit it. There is no need to create it again:

1. Choose the language and select the last option (languages/plugin/...) as the location:

After clicking the Start Translation button, you will be directed to the Loco Translate editor where you can start translating the plugin strings.

Translation Process

The translation process is straightforward. Just write the translation to the designated area and save the changes:

For instance:

Example

Let's change the text inside the 'Preview this course' button. We will change it to 'Preview LOCO' just for testing.

1. Search for 'Preview this course' and write 'Preview LOCO' to the translation.

1. Save the changes:

Here is the result:

Update Translation File

Stylemixthemes cares about its clients, so we continuously add new and colorful features to our plugins to improve them. That's why it's important to keep your plugins up to date. During updates, new strings will be added or removed. After updating the plugin, you also need to synchronize it in the Loco Translate plugin.

1. Edit the language (translation file) that you are using:

1. Click on the Sync button and Save the changes. You can see what kind of changes were made: