How to add a new string to a *.po file w/ a PO editor

Question

I MANUALLY created a file: test.po with the contents:

msgid "greeting"
msgstr "Hello World"

Now I can edit the translation (hello world) in editors like "poedit" and "GTranslated" (I'm using Ubuntu). I can even add comments to that translation. However neither "poedit" and "GTranslated" will let me ADD a new translation string - I've looked online to no avail and looked at screenshots of other editors and none seem to have a "new" button.

What am I missing??? It seems stupid to have to edit new keys w/ a "plain" text editor and then edit them in these PO editors (whichever they may be). (If you can't tell I'm new to this 'gettext' world - I'm building a website in Zend/PHP.)

Answer 1

You should never be adding strings directly to a .po file; they will be added by msgmerge from the .pot file generated by xgettext.

Answer 2

Here's what I did:

Edit the .po file and add your new string, for example:

msgid "All Catalogues"
msgstr "Todos los catalogos"

Save the .po file.

Now open it in poedit and in the menu select: Catalog > Update from POT file

Once you've updated you should see the new string and will be able to change it.

Save changes and you're good to go.

Answer 3

MacOS:

1. Edit the .po file in any text editor.
2. Open the .po file in Poedit (free)
3. In Poedit, select file -> Compile to .MO

This is what worked for me in a Wordpress Genesis .po file.

Answer 4

open the .po file with any text editor, add these line or what ever the text need to added.

msgid "All Catalogues"
msgstr "Todos los catalogos"

save and launch :-D

Answer 5

Old thread but I found myself wanting to translate strings that are stored in the WordPress database and not translatable with Polylang.

What I did was creating a PHP file in the theme and I added strings with __("A string to translate"); The PoEdit automatically added it to the .po file.