[theme-reviewers] Translation-ready themes

[Edward Caissie]

@Otto42 - Slightly off-topic, but quickly, can the "makepot.php" be applied
to plugins as well ... or is there a similar functionality for plugins in a
different folder? (I'll look into it more later, just being a bit a lazy
*grin*)

@Christine - Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.


Edward Caissie
aka Cais.


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> A PO file is literally just a POT file with the translated parts filled
> in. Renaming it will work fine for POEdit.
>
> I don't recommend using POEdit to actually generate POT/PO/MO files from
> the source code itself, as it is a generic tool and it does not know about
> the WordPress-specific i18n functions. Nor does it really know about
> WordPress theme and plugin headers.
>
> The WordPress makepot.php tool uses the actual wp core code to do a lot of
> the work, so it's up-to-date and will always work correctly. The resulting
> POT file it generates can then be used in any translation tool, such as
> POEdit, to do the actual translation.
>
> The handbook mentions the makepot.php file first. This is the recommended
> method.
>
>
> https://make.wordpress.org/docs/theme-developer-handbook/theme-functionality/localization/#generating-pot-file
>
> Note that it says "You need thegettext (GNU Internationalization
> utilities) package", however I do not believe this is true anymore. I'll
> investigate, but I've been able to run the makepot.php file on a Windows
> box with XAMPP installed without issues. Pretty sure it lacks the gettext
> package. That information may be outdated and need to be revised.
>
> Additionally, it does not mention that you need to check out the entire
> /trunk directory, and not just the /tools/i18n directory. The makepot.php
> file makes references back to the WordPress code in the /trunk/src
> directory, so the entire copy of WordPress needs to be checked out as well.
> WordPress does not have to be configured or anything, but the code must be
> available for usage.
>
> -Otto
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Note that I took the "make a .POT file by renaming a .PO file" from the
> previously linked Codex/Handbook reference:
> >
> https://make.wordpress.org/docs/theme-developer-handbook/theme-functionality/localization/
> >
> > "There are a few other tools that can be used for generating a pot file.
> You can use locally Poedit. After generating the po file you can rename the
> file to POT."
> >
> >
> > I've never played with the WP developer tools. I'll have to take a look.
> >
> >
>
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