[theme-reviewers] Translation-ready themes

[Ulrich Pogson]

The template file should be `theme-slug.pot`. The `theme-slug.mo` is
useless and not needed.

You can read up here on how to generate the POT files.
https://make.wordpress.org/docs/theme-developer-handbook/theme-functionality/localization/

@Edward - Interesting that you changed your view. A few months ago you
thought that the POT file should not be compulsory.

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.


On 24 June 2014 15:20, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> I've never included a .POT file; I've only ever included POMO files?
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I think it would be preferable to have a POT file.  It should be named
>> `theme-name.pot`.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> IIRC, translation-ready requires proper implementation of translation
>>> strings, proper theme declaration of translation, and inclusion of a .po
>>> file.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Jose Castaneda <jomcastaneda at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was wondering that the other day too. I feel that is should have
>>>> either a .po or .pot file
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 5:33 AM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If a theme is tagged as "translation-ready", shouldn't it include a
>>>>> default .po file? Just been dealing with a support request regarding <
>>>>> https://wordpress.org/themes/serene/> and languages. The theme is
>>>>> tagged as "translation-ready" and functions.php appears to point to a
>>>>> /languages folder but there is no such folder in the theme.
>>>>>
>>>>> What would the requirements actually be in such a case?
>>>>>
>>>>> Mel
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