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<DIV>I found that not including the translations with the releases of either
plugins or themes is a better idea – and have them available off my
site. Translations are a finicky thing, to the point where
just a single word in a string might need updating and then you’ll have to go
through the entire process of the theme review over again for something so
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<DIV>This way also that people who do the translations can keep a space for the
translations on their site and you just link to them. That has worked well
for me in the past.</DIV>
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<DIV>You *can* do a phone home from within a theme, however you should/will have
to use this function in order to be accepted by the repo:</DIV>
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<DIV><CODE>wp_remote_fopen($url);</CODE></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=birch@birchware.se
href="mailto:birch@birchware.se">Mats Birch</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 03, 2012 7:16 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [theme-reviewers] Adding information to the WordPress
Updates page</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>Since I didn't find an answer, I'll probably do
that.<BR><BR>Another, related, thing:<BR>As I said, most updates right now are
new (and updated) translations. And apart from the fact that most people don't
want/need another translation, it seems like a waste of time (yours, mostly) to
go through the review process for such things.<BR><BR>Would it be permissible to
have an update checker in the theme? That is, to occasionally "phone home" and
display information about for example a new translation, or even give the user
the opportunity to try a beta?<BR><BR>I know the "phone home" thing is
considered bad. But is that a rule without
exceptions?<BR><BR>Thanks.<BR><BR><BR>On 2012-07-02 20:09, Chip Bennett
wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
cite=mid:CAPdLKqcK8O+o7TVSV=VMjrxNedPLOTtRZD1x2cTfgmr7T+Cxsw@mail.gmail.com
type="cite">I would recommend searching for, and if none exists, opening a
ticket in Trac for this functinoality: <A href="http://trac.wordpress.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://trac.wordpress.org</A>
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<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
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<DIV>Chip<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Mats Birch <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:birch@birchware.se" target=_blank
moz-do-not-send="true">birch@birchware.se</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote>This is probably the wrong forum for this, but I don't
know of any other place where I can get an answer to my question. I
triedhttp://<A href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/" target=_blank
moz-do-not-send="true">make.wordpress.org/themes/</A>, but that wasn't
it.<BR><BR><BR>I have a theme, Kippis, that is in a phase where I mostly add
translations. That means that most people are not interested in the updates.
It is totally unneccesary for a site to update, just to add a language it
doesn't use.<BR><BR>So, I was looking for a way to add to the WordPress
Updates page, the one that now says something like this: "You have version
1.13.1 installed. Update to 1.13.3."<BR><BR>I'd like to add a short
description of what is new, like "Added german language support".<BR>Can it
be
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