wp_set_script_translations( string $handle, string $domain = 'default', string $path = null )

Sets translated strings for a script.

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Description

Works only if the script has already been registered.

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See also

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Parameters

$handle

(string) (Required) Script handle the textdomain will be attached to.

$domain

(string) (Optional) Text domain.

Default value: 'default'

$path

(string) (Optional) The full file path to the directory containing translation files.

Default value: null

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Return

(bool) True if the text domain was successfully localized, false otherwise.

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Source

File: wp-includes/functions.wp-scripts.php 

function wp_set_script_translations( $handle, $domain = 'default', $path = null ) {
	global $wp_scripts;

	if ( ! ( $wp_scripts instanceof WP_Scripts ) ) {
		_wp_scripts_maybe_doing_it_wrong( __FUNCTION__, $handle );
		return false;
	}

	return $wp_scripts->set_translations( $handle, $domain, $path );
}

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Used By

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Used By Description
wp-includes/blocks.php: register_block_script_handle()

Finds a script handle for the selected block metadata field. It detects when a path to file was provided and finds a corresponding asset file with details necessary to register the script under automatically generated handle name. It returns unprocessed script handle otherwise.

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Changelog

Changelog
Version Description
5.1.0 The $domain parameter was made optional.
5.0.0 Introduced.

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User Contributed Notes

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    Contributed by Kris Kelvin —

    Remember to check the path in the third argument. I wasted 3 days investigating what’s wrong and it turned out I gave 

    plugin_basename( __DIR__ ) . '/languages/'

    instead of 

    plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . '/languages/'

    —

    With plugin_dir_path() works fine.

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    Contributed by Ronald Huereca —

    If you have to generate your own JSON language pack files, use WP CLI to generate your JSON file for you. Just navigate to your plugin folder and run the following command.

    wp i18n make-json languages

    Then set the language folder in wp_set_script_translations

    wp_set_script_translations( 'wp-presenter-pro-js', 'wp-presenter-pro', plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . 'languages' );

    Warning: If someone translates your plugin with the same locale on the WordPress Plugin Directory, the language will not show up if using the third argument.

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    Contributed by shewa —

    wp_set_script_translations() should not be called before register or wp_enqueue_scripts or with init hook. To make wordpress able to load handled scripts this function should be called after text domain handled script load. Here is an example:

    add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', array( $this, 'wpdocs_load_scripts' ) );

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', array( $this, 'wpdocs_load_text_domain' ), 100 );

function wpdocs_load_text_domain() {
    wp_set_script_translations( 
         'wpdocs-js',
         'wpdocs-text-domain',
         plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . 'languages' 
    );
}

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