Native Gettext for WordPress
This plugin has no setting or UI. It just does one thing : use the php-gettext library to handle translations. This results in much faster translation than using the default PHP gettext implementation of WordPress. If the extension is not available, the plugin will simply do nothing. You can verify that the plugin is working by looking for an HTTP header: X-Native-Gettext: 1, that will be sent as soon as a string will be translated by the native library. If your WordPress install is in English, this plugin has no purpose. Otherwise, it can help speed up your install quite a lot. Requirements: – php-gettext – OS-level support for the locale(s) you want to translate to.
Speed Up – Translation Cache
This plugin is no longer needed on WordPress 6.5 or later. Version 6.5 introduced performant translations: the core caches parsed translations itself, through .l10n.php files, without transients and faster than this plugin can. You can safely deactivate it. On WordPress 6.4 and earlier it still does useful work. The translations reduces speed of WordPress. For localized WordPress the loading time of translation files accounts for 30% of the entire processing time (less or more 40 milliseconds per page). For each translation file, WordPress unpacks it and then everyone will be converted in an “Translation_Entry” object. This process, repeated at each page view, is a waste time and resource. You can make this process 3 times faster by just installing this plugin. This plugin offers a caching solution using the WordPress standard cache mechanism that reduces this effects on performance. Configurations are not required! You just have to install it and after the plugin does it all, none further action it’s required. This plugin is very light: only 5 kB. Features No configuration Supports multiple languages Supports plugin’s translation files caching Supports WordPress Network/Multisite installation Cache automatically expire when translation file is updated Recommended Installation For better performance, verify that /wp-content/object-cache.php is installed (see https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Object_Cache#Persistent_Cache_Plugins).
