<div dir="ltr">I also vote for <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">`theme-slug.pot`. That's the most generic file and translators can use any tool they want if that's included. </span><div>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Ulrich pointed out the link which have 3 good solutions to create .pot file. </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Last time I checked Poedit didn't create style.css headers like description or custom page template names. If that's still the case that option is out. I use Grunt tool nowadays. <br>
</font><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 June 2014 16:44, Ulrich Pogson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grapplerulrich@gmail.com" target="_blank">grapplerulrich@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The template file should be `theme-slug.pot`. The `theme-slug.mo` is useless and not needed.<div>
<br></div><div>You can read up here on how to generate the POT files.</div><div><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/docs/theme-developer-handbook/theme-functionality/localization/" target="_blank">https://make.wordpress.org/docs/theme-developer-handbook/theme-functionality/localization/</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>@Edward - Interesting that you changed your view. A few months ago you thought that the POT file should not be compulsory.</div><div><br></div><div>PSA - Generate your own mo files when receiving a translation as the mo file could contain different strings to the po file. The po file is human readable but the mo file is not.</div>
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