[wp-polyglots] 2.9: Loss of translation for certain plugins

[S K]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Peter Westwood
<peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk> wrote:
>
> If the plugin was translatable but expected the files to be placed inside
> the plugins own directory rather than in the root of wp-content/plugins and
> they have added a translation file not included in the plugin download then
> it will get removed by the plugin updater when they update the plugin as it
> removes all old files before putting the new ones in.
>=======================

 You are right.

But I find that the problem is bit more complex than that.

To wit, not only my translated files (.po & .mo) disappear on each
auto-update, the strings that are input on the plugin's
option/settings menu in my language are also getting overwritten. I
have to rewrite them after each upgrade. But this doesn't happen with
the Lesterchen plugins. It happened to me with ones like Contact Form
7.

This will become a regular pain if you have many such installations in
your language.

I think the only solution left for people like me is not to use
automatic upgrade of plugins until a workaround is made available.

S.K

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