Under certain circumstances, plugins such as WooCommerce German (de_DE) may not display a complete translation, even though the translation is generally available.
To fix this issue, you need to look for the file
woocommerce-de_DE.po
in
wp-content\languages\plugins
Copy this file and place it under
wp-content\languages
in a newly created folder called woocommerce. This prevents our file from being overwritten. Next, open the file and add the following at the end:
msgid "(Enter the text you want to translate here)"
msgstr "(Enter the German translation you need here)"
Then save your changes. Please note that only one word or sentence may be placed between the quotation marks at a time. For each additional translation, a new msgid and msgstr pair must be added.
For the changes to take effect, you also need to convert the modified .po file into an .mo file that can be used by a CMS (in our case, WordPress). For this, we need the free program "Poedit". Open the edited file with this tool and save it. After reloading the page, the changes should be visible.
