Translate theme strings with Polylang?

[strarsis]

Is it possible to translate the strings in a sage9 theme (blade with __(...)) and is it good practice? The user shiould be able to easily and quickly change translations (without involving gettext tools).

[strarsis]

Localization of Blade templates

I think there’s a misunderstanding here. We were trying to get strings from our own custom theme (written in Blade) translated. We were not trying to get official Sage translations into WordPress. The .pot file created by this NPM script is meant to be a base to create .po and .mo files in a specific language. A .pot file doesn’t contain any translation in itself. Speaking of this, I recently tried Polylang as a replacement for WPML, and it works like a charm with this plugin! Just replace __() …