Title: Simple Translation Remover Author: Peter Lawrenson Published: Meurth 7, 2025 Last modified: Meurth 7, 2025 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/simple-translation-remover/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3252377) # Simple Translation Remover By [Peter Lawrenson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lorro/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/simple-translation-remover.1.4.1.zip) * [Details](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-translation-remover/#description) * [Reviews](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-translation-remover/#reviews) * [Installation](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-translation-remover/#installation) * [Development](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-translation-remover/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-translation-remover/) ## Description The plugin enables the easy deletion of unwanted translations. This will remove nags to update translations for unwanted locales, and enable some server disk space to be reclaimed. Website back-ups will be a bit quicker and backup files will be a bit smaller. Deletion of unwanted translations can be done using FTP and the site host’s file manager, or by using a file manager plugin, but administrators should find this easier and quicker with this plugin. The plugin will suit administrators who are uncomfortable with using FTP or who don’t have FTP access. ### Deactivating Deactivate or delete the plugin at Dashboard > Plugins > Installed Plugins ### Usage Go to Dashboard > Tools > Translation Remover Select the translations you would like to be removed. Several can be removed with one pass. The default action is to just list the translation files so you can check they are the correct ones, or you can select the deletion of the files. Click “Go”. The plugin will not allow the removal of translations for the active locale. To remove the translations for the active locale, go to Dashboard > Settings > General and select a new site language. When you come back to the Translations Removal tool, the original site language translations can be selected for removal. If you inadvertently remove any translations that you would like to keep, select their locale as the site language, go to Dashboard > Updates and click the “Update translations” button. The locale: “English (United States)” is the language used in the code. It doesn’t have any translation files. ## Screenshots * [[ * Tool screen – Select the translations to be removed ## Installation Load and activate the plugin in the normal way at Dashboard > Plugins > Add New ## FAQ ### Does it work with custom translations? No. ### Will it work with Polylang or the WPML (WordPress Multilingual Plugin) Its up to the administrator to make sure they are not removing the translations for one of the site’s supported locales. The plugin will not check this. ### Will it work on multi-site installations? Not tested on multi-site installations. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b637695efae13c4f2736f67eac13e9ce6504644be89629128b391f294d9ed2cb? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Excellent useful tool](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-useful-tool/)󠁿 [darrenjames](https://profiles.wordpress.org/darrenjames/) Mis-Genver 12, 2026 What a super useful plugin. After a client got a bit overzealous with installing way too many unnecessary languages using Polylang the /wp-content/languages/ directory was full of 100s of files. This was a great way to clean them up. Thank you for such a useful tool ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6ddc525ae47cdce6c4d632d40ad0ebdfa590fdb36dfca0c85a4cbd5cccaf5351? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[It does what it promises](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-does-what-it-promises-32/)󠁿 [Fernando Tellado](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fernandot/) Ebrel 1, 2025 Simple, easy, perfect. I’ve tried with some test webs and it worked fine. It does what is expected. [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-translation-remover/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Simple Translation Remover” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Peter Lawrenson ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lorro/) “Simple Translation Remover” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/simple-translation-remover/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Simple Translation Remover” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/simple-translation-remover) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-translation-remover/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-translation-remover/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-translation-remover/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-translation-remover/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.0 Submitted to WordPress.org for review. #### 1.1.0 Revised to meet WordPress.org plugin guidelines. #### 1.2.0 Revised to meet WordPress.org plugin guidelines. #### 1.3.0 Revised to meet WordPress.org plugin guidelines. #### 1.4.0 Revised to meet WordPress.org plugin guidelines. #### 1.4.1 Minor fixes ## Meta * Version **1.4.1** * Last updated **1 year ago** * Active installations **50+** * WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.7.5** * PHP version ** 7.3 or higher ** * Languages * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-translation-remover/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-translation-remover/), ha [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-translation-remover/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/simple-translation-remover) * Tag * [translations](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/translations/) * [Advanced View](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-translation-remover/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 2 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-translation-remover/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-translation-remover/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-translation-remover/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-translation-remover/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-translation-remover/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-translation-remover/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-translation-remover/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Peter Lawrenson ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lorro/) ## Support Got something to say? 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