Stringwatch – Untranslated Text Finder for TranslatePress

Description

If you translate your site by hand to keep its quality and tone consistent, it is easy to miss a string — a button label, an image alt text, a line somewhere. And every time you change the design, new strings appear that you might forget to translate. TranslatePress shows you one page at a time, so there is no quick way to see what is still missing across the whole site.

Stringwatch adds a Stringwatch tab to the TranslatePress settings. It compares every public page with each of its translations, as a logged-out visitor sees them, and lists every piece of text that is still identical. TranslatePress’ own string tables then tell you why:

• Not translated — TranslatePress knows the text but has no translation.
• Translated, not shown — a translation exists, but the page still shows the original, usually because of a spelling difference such as curly quotes, dashes or HTML entities.
• Not in TranslatePress — the text comes from somewhere TranslatePress does not see, such as JavaScript or another plugin.

Text you deliberately translated to the same words (brand names, « FAQ ») is recognised and hidden automatically.

Features

• Works with any language combination.
• Checks visible text, image alt texts, titles, placeholders, aria-labels, the page title and the meta description.
• Scans only when you open the tab or click Refresh — nothing runs in the background, nothing on the front end changes.
• Results appear while the scan runs.
• Every finding links to the translated page and straight into the TranslatePress editor.
• Re-check a single page after fixing it, without a full scan.
• Header, footer and popup strings are grouped once under « Sitewide ».
• Skip false positives, keep an allowlist of brand names, ignore whole components by CSS selector, or leave pages out of the scan — all reversible.
• Several translation languages in one scan.