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

[Simon Prosser]

We found the best way was to install glotpress, it shares the same
userbase as our main blog. Then let the community have a go ;)
As you can see its fairly busy :)

On 3 July 2012 15:48, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> 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
>> 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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