[theme-reviewers] Translation-ready themes

[Sami Keijonen]

If Poedit creates page template names and style.css headers, then I don't
see why not. I can check this out.


On 24 June 2014 18:29, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> Is generation of a .POT file really as trivial as taking the
> Poedit-generated .PO file, and changing the extension from .PO to .POT?
>
> If so, I don't really see the criticality of requiring a .POT file over a
> .PO file.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Sami Keijonen <sami.keijonen at foxnet.fi>
> wrote:
>
>> I also vote for `theme-slug.pot`. That's the most generic file and
>> translators can use any tool they want if that's included.
>>
>> Ulrich pointed out the link which have 3 good solutions to create .pot
>> file.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> On 24 June 2014 16:44, Ulrich Pogson <grapplerulrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>> Sami Keijonen
>> Fox Holding Oy
>> sami.keijonen at foxnet.fi
>> foxnet.fi
>> foxnet-themes.fi
>>
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Sami Keijonen
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