WordPress Internationalization Workflows

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WordPress Internationalization Workﬂows WordCamp Johannesburg 2018

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Pascal Birchler  @swissspidy

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What You Will Learn Today

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WordPress + Internationalization

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Making a Plugin Translation-Ready

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Internationalization Workﬂow Optimization

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Prerequisites

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The process of creating a product in such a way that it can be easily adapted to speciﬁc local languages and cultures Internationalization (I18N)

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The process of adapting a product or service to a particular language, culture, and desired local “look-and-feel.” Localization (L10N)

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“Localization is like translation but with a cultural twist” Localization

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Internationalization Done Right bit.ly/i18nDoneRight

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WordPress I18N Efforts

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Making WordPress Global

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translate.wordpress.org

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Language Packs

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WordPress Plugin Internationalization Behind the Scenes

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WordPress Plugin Internationalization WordPress.org

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Writing a Plugin

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my-plugin/ my-plugin.php readme.txt

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=== My Super Awesome Plugin === Contributors: swissspidy Requires at least: 4.6 Stable tag: 1.0.0 License: GPLv2 or later My WordPress plugin that does nothing.

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WordPress.org Plugin Directory

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wordpress.org/plugins/my-plugin

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translate.wordpress.org

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wp-content/ languages/ my-plugin-de_DE.mo my-plugin-de_DE.po

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1. Write Plugin 2. Submit to WordPres.org 3. Translate 4. Done!

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WordPress Plugin Internationalization Private Plugin

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Writing a Plugin

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String Extraction

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makepot grunt-wp-i18n Poedit

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my-plugin/ my-plugin.php languages/ my-plugin.pot

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Manual Translation

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my-plugin/ my-plugin.php languages/ my-plugin.pot my-plugin-de_DE.po my-plugin-de_DE.mo

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load_plugin_textdomain( 'my-plugin', false, __DIR__ . '/languages' )

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1. Write Plugin 2. String Extraction 3. Translate 4. Load Translations 5. Done!

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Comparison

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WordPress.org Private Plugin - Very easy to use - Translation Platform - Just-in-time Translation Loading - Complicated process - String Extraction - No Translation Community - Manual Translation Loading

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Introducing Traduttore

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WordPress.org For Everyone

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translate.wordpress.org For Everyone

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How it Works

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WP-CLI

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# Create a POT file for the WordPress plugin in the current directory $ wp i18n make-pot . languages/my-plugin.pot

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github.com/wp-cli/i18n-command

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\Required\Traduttore_Registry\add_project( 'plugin', 'my-plugin', 'https://translate.example.com/api/translations/my-plugin/' );

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WordPress.org & Traduttore Private Plugin - Very easy to use - Translation Platform - Just-in-time Translation Loading - Complicated process - String Extraction - No Translation Community - Manual Translation Loading

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required.com/en/blog/

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github.com/wearerequired/traduttore github.com/wearerequired/traduttore-registry