[theme-reviewers] Translation-ready themes

[Chip Bennett]

Currently, only front-end string translation is required for the
translation-ready tag. Back-end string translation is recommended but not
required. I would expect that, eventually, both front-end and back-end
string translation will be required.


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:18 AM, myazalea <myazalea at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  What about theme options?
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>  Skickat från min Samsung Mobil
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> Från: Sami Keijonen
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> Rubrik: Re: [theme-reviewers] Translation-ready themes
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>  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:
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> 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.
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>  On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Sami Keijonen <sami.keijonen at foxnet.fi>
> wrote:
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>  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.
>
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> 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.
>
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