# Are there any good Chinese plugins?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/400973
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 18, 2026, 7:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/400973 "2026-04-18T19:24:23Z")
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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/400973/2 "2026-04-18T22:27:37Z")

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I don’t think there is a plugin that translates these. The reason why setting names are not translated is that this way they are identical for everyone. If I, for example, ask how I can avoid the information from the forum being sent out via email and someone tells me the setting is called `private email`, then I can search for that and find the setting - even though my forum is in German. Otherwise, I still wouldn’t know what to search for in German.

> [@Translating site setting names in the future?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translating-site-setting-names-in-the-future/205100/8):
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> Translation of site setting names isn’t going to happen for the reasons already stated. Translated names would be a support nightmare unless we would also display the English name. And then, what’s the point of having translated names in the first place? I’d rather see improvements to the existing descriptions of settings if some of them are unclear.

I have suggested to show [translated subtitles](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-translated-subtitles-to-site-setting-names/396962)

> [@DEV: Ensure all site settings have a keyword entry](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dev-ensure-all-site-settings-have-a-keyword-entry/344861/14):
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> ![trolle](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/6/5/565dcb556f84234c6fb72e61f11600a3a5034a4c.png)

And I have created a theme component to try how that feels - not just on a screenshot - but in my forum. But I haven’t translated all settings yet. There are about 900 (without plugins). It looks like this (usually the subtitles aren’t red, I changed the color to highlight them in the screenshot. I copied the Chinese translations from `/admin/config/about`)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/e/b/aebe1b207dfa355e57c4c3588b0d00ea357772cc.png)  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/d/8/5d852a7d392805b910a1391046008bf2da906bdc.png)

If you’d like to translate all the settings yourself, I can see if I can publish the component, but that’s not really a good solution. New settings are added frequently, but I need to update the component manually and then the translations need to be updated manually.

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