Just make sure that your plugin or theme uses translatable strings such as _(“My admin dashboard”), rather than just plain “My admin dashboard”. PO file to the languages folder of your theme or plugin.

Now, choose the language that you want to translate it to, and then translate every string to your language.Poedit will automatically extract all the translatable strings from your plugin or theme and then it will display them on the screen.In the next step, choose the exact folder of your theme or plugin.From the main screen, click on “Translate WordPress theme or plugin.”.Download, install and upgrade to Poedit Pro by entering your license key.Without further ado, here’s how it works: In just a few minutes, you can create a new translation for plugin and theme. Things just couldn’t get easier then this. The best part about the Poedit Pro version is that it comes with built-in support for translating WordPress themes and plugins. Translating Themes and Plugins Using Poedit Pro Poedit 1.6 features a brand new UI, improved language handling, completely new translation memory implementation and better support for plural forms expressions. Apart from the free version, there’s also a new Pro version of the app available which comes with some exciting new features, most notably, the option to translate WordPress themes and plugins. Poedit’s latest version, v1.6 is released recently.