[theme-reviewers] Translation-ready themes

[Christine Rondeau]

Edward, if you want to take the plunge, I'd be happy to translate one
of your themes in French for you....

Christine Rondeau
Bluelime Media
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Edward Caissie
<edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:
> @Ulrich - Yes, I have changed my mind on the matter ... although I will
> likely never tag one of my themes as "translation-ready" (although with the
> exception of an included .po/.pot file my current "favorite" most likely is)
> I have put a lot of thought into i18n related issues over that period of
> time as well.
>
> Edward Caissie
> aka Cais.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>> Skickat från min Samsung Mobil
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Originalmeddelande --------
>>> Från: Sami Keijonen
>>> Datum:24-06-2014 17:39 (GMT+01:00)
>>> Till: "Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers."
>>> Rubrik: Re: [theme-reviewers] Translation-ready themes
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
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