[wp-hackers] Trying to add i18n

Tom Barrett tcbarrett at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 16:10:56 UTC 2012


I should RTFM. Thanks Otto. Works perfectly.

add_action( 'plugins_loaded', 'tcb_wpg_localisation' );
function tcb_wpg_localisation() {
  load_plugin_textdomain( 'wp-glossary', false, dirname( plugin_basename(
__FILE__ ) ) . '/lang/' );
}


On 23 October 2012 07:31, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> Two things:
> 1. You should use the plugins_loaded hook, not "init", although init
> will work fine for many cases.
>
> 2. Using plugin_dir_path(__FILE__) is probably wrong.
> plugin_dir_path() gets the path to the plugin directory in an absolute
> form. The third parameter to that function call is a relative path to
> the plugin directory only.
>
> If you examine the codex, it shows this method:
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/load_plugin_textdomain
>
> load_plugin_textdomain( 'my-plugin', false, dirname( plugin_basename(
> __FILE__ ) ) );
>
> -Otto
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Tom Barrett <tcbarrett at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to add language support to my plugin.
> >
> > What I have done:
> >
> > 1. This is how I add my text domain.
> >
> > add_action( 'init', 'tcb_wpg_localisation' );
> > function tcb_wpg_localisation() {
> >   load_plugin_textdomain( 'wp-glossary', false,
> plugin_dir_path(__FILE__) .
> > '/lang/' );
> > }
> >
> > 2. I used the wp.org 'Generate POT file' to create a .pot file - and
> put it
> > in /lang/
> >
> > 3. Installed
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codestyling-localization/ to
> > test and create .po and .mo files - translating 2 of the items.
> >
> > 4. Editing wp-config.php to change my language.
> >
> > The problem:
> >
> > I'm not seeing the translated text. Here are two code snippets:
> > 1. the_content filter: $content .= '<div
> class="glossary-references"><h4>'
> > . __('Reference:', 'wp-glossary') . ' ' . $title . '</h4></div>';
> > 2. CPT slug: 'rewrite' => array('slug' => __('glossary', 'wp-glossary')),
> >
> >
> > What have I missed?
> >
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