Translation jobs abort with a misleading prerequisite error
Auto-translate jobs abort with 'translate strings with the Auto Translate button first' and strings remaining.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 12 November 2024 · last reported 27 December 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners translating large plugins and themes with the Loco Translate addon report that jobs stop partway and show a message telling them to use the Auto Translate button first, even though they already did.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
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