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Translator Sign-up for GlotPress

Lets translators sign up for GlotPress with the languages they can translate, and lets admins approve them as reviewers.

by helgatheviking · github.com/helgatheviking/gp-translator-signup · website

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/helgatheviking/gp-translator-signup/archive/refs/heads/trunk.zip
Updates itself. It ships its own updater (Update URI header), so new versions appear under Dashboard → Updates.
Readme github.com/helgatheviking/gp-translator-signup ↗

Lets translators sign up for a GlotPress site on their own, with the languages they can translate, and lets you approve them as reviewers. No form plugin needed: it extends WordPress's own registration page.

How it works

  1. Sign-up. Translators register at wp-login.php?action=register. The page gains a checkbox for each language that has a translation set, an optional "Other languages" field, and a hidden honeypot field that blocks spam bots. A "Sign up to translate" link appears in the GlotPress header while registration is open.
  2. Pending. New users are created with the default role (set it to Subscriber) and marked Pending. Like any logged-in user, they can suggest translations straight away, but can't approve them. WordPress's new-user email to the admin lists their languages and links to the pending list.
  3. Approved. Approving a translator lets them approve translations in their languages, on every project, including projects added later. They get an email saying so.
  4. Rejected. Rejected translators can no longer suggest translations.

Translators can't change their own languages; only admins can, from the user's profile.

Setup

  1. Activate the plugin (GlotPress must be active).
  2. In Settings > General, tick Anyone can register and set New User Default Role to Subscriber.

Reviewing translators

  • Users has a Pending translators view, a Translator column with each user's status and languages, and Approve / Reject links under each translator.
  • A user's profile has a Translator section for changing their status and languages.

Approved translators' review rights come from this plugin, not from GlotPress's permission records, so they don't appear on GlotPress's Permissions screens. Manage them from Users.

Development

composer install   # also prefixes git-updater-lite into vendor-prefixed/ with Strauss
npm install
composer lint

Releasing

npm version patch   # or minor / major

This bumps the version in package.json and the plugin header, commits, tags, and pushes. The tag starts the GitHub Actions release workflow, which builds the zip and attaches it to a GitHub release. The release notes are the commit subjects since the previous tag, so write commit subjects as changelog lines.

Updates are delivered with Git Updater Lite, from the update server in the plugin's Update URI header.