Playground in your language

The scenario

The site is built in English, but the client is Brazilian and wants to see the new page and its admin in Portuguese. A Playground link opens in English, and switching the language there means downloading translations by hand on a throwaway site.

The steps

1. In Users → Profile, your language is Português do Brasil (the site’s stays English).
2. Tools → Export: check the page and what it needs.
3. Details → Format: Playground, then Playground options:
   • Language → Your language (Português do Brasil);
   • Themes and plugins: the site’s theme and the plugins the page uses.
4. Export, then Open in Playground on the copy in Copies.

What the client sees

Playground installs the themes and plugins, then sets the site’s language to Portuguese and fetches the translations of WordPress and of everything from the WordPress.org directory. A custom plugin’s translations come from this site, inside the file. The dashboard, the theme’s texts and the plugins’ screens open in Portuguese.

What it doesn’t

• Only languages installed on this site are offered (Settings → General or your profile installs them).
• A theme or plugin without a translation stays in English.