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A theme or plugin update can add new texts. Your translations are kept. Loco Translate’s Sync button adds the new texts to your language file, then you translate them. Do this for the child theme and for the WPResidence Theme Core Functionality plugin.
Update the child theme translation
- Set the template once. Go to Loco Translate > Themes > WpResidence child theme > Advanced. In Template file, write ../wpresidence/languages/wpresidence.pot and click Save config at the bottom. This is the template inside the main theme, and each theme update replaces it with the new texts. The template in the child theme stays the same after updates.
- After each theme update, open your language, click Sync, translate the new texts and click Save. Open the language from the Overview tab of WpResidence child theme.
Update the WPResidence Core translation
- Go to Loco Translate > Plugins and open WPResidence Theme Core Functionality. Its template, languages/wpresidence-core.pot, is set by default and updates with the plugin.
- Open your language file, click Sync, translate the new texts and click Save. Keep this file in languages/loco/plugins, so the plugin update leaves it in place: Rename WPResidence Core words.
The full translation guide: Translate WPResidence.