Localize plugin name

Question

Plugin name is a comment in WordPress. Since you can't write php code in the comments, is there a way to localize the plugin name and make it translatable?

Answer 1

Just add the full string of the plugin name into the plugin's text domain. WordPress looks this up automatically. Same with Description, PluginURI, Author and AuthorURI.

See the internal function _get_plugin_data_markup_translate.

The string extractor in Glotpress (and my own plugin Loco Translate) adds these header strings automatically to new POT files.

Answer 2

Not easily. You could copy all the files and change the plugin name. But you still have to go through line by line. Why not just use google-translate plugin on the page the plugin is displaying? All languages are good then.

GTranslate works well for me.