[theme-reviewers] Adding information to the WordPress Updates page

[Chip Bennett]

I think this is the much better approach - to provide external downloads of
translation files. Two reasons:

1. As Phil said, it allows for much more agile/frequent updates to and
additions of translation files
2. Translation files represent bloat for anyone not using them.

What would be really cool (hi, Otto!) would be for Theme developers to have
some sort of SVN-commit access for a companion repository for Theme
translation files, so that the translation files could be made available
through Extend, but would be separate from the Theme upload/approval
process.

Chip

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
<philip at frumph.net>wrote:

>   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 simple.
>
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> wp_remote_fopen($url);
>
> documentation:
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_remote_fopen
>
>
>
>  *From:* Mats Birch <birch at birchware.se>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 03, 2012 7:16 AM
> *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] Adding information to the WordPress
> Updates page
>
>  Since I didn't find an answer, I'll probably do that.
>
> Another, related, thing:
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> I know the "phone home" thing is considered bad. But is that a rule
> without exceptions?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> On 2012-07-02 20:09, Chip Bennett wrote:
>
> I would recommend searching for, and if none exists, opening a ticket in
> Trac for this functinoality: http://trac.wordpress.org
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chip
>
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Mats Birch <birch at birchware.se> wrote:
>
>> 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://
>> make.wordpress.org/themes/, but that wasn't it.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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."
>>
>> I'd like to add a short description of what is new, like "Added german
>> language support".
>> Can it be done?
>>
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