One of the first big problems that I faced when I started with WordPress was how to generate a POT file. In the meantime have been able to look at all of the different tools and see their shortcoming with…
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Why a string text domain is not a must
A discussion that I keep coming across with i18n in WordPress is the use of variables and constants for text domains. Everyone keeps on linking to Mark Jaquith’s post “Translating WordPress Plugins and Themes: Don’t Get Clever” and Otto’s post…
How to load theme and plugin translations
You may ask yourself what is so special about this post. Does not the codex cover load_plugin_textdomain() and load_theme_textdomain() but this posts will show what else you can do with it. With this code for the theme and plugin you can…
Help: WordPress i18n Tools
When I was at WordCamp Europe 2013 I listened to Otto’s talk on internationalisation. I have had time to play around with the WordPress i18n tools. I would like to add a few more features and see how the code…
How to update translations quickly
This is for Windows users. Set Up WebTranslateIt Synchronization Tool I use webtranslateit for managing all of the theme and plugin translation. Up till recently I have always download the files in a zip and then extracted them to the language folder.…
