Does WordPress speak your language?

by Petya Raykovska

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pril May June Ju @petyeah #WCCh does speak your language?

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@petyeah

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i18n & L10n WOrdPress & languages grow globally like

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WOrdPress & languages

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2003 Created 17.4% 21.0% 2011 WordPress is growing 13.1% 15.8% 2012 2013 2014 now 24%

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top languages in the world Chinese Spanish English Arabic Hindi Portueguese Bengali Russian

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top Wordpress languages Chinese Spanish English Arabic German Portueguese Japanese French

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WordPress 4.0 (2014) Non English downloads surpassed English downloads ENGLISH > 6,538,463 7,196,847

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English Japanese German Wordpress 4.0 - 13,743, 063 downloads 6,496,334 2,912,037 451,315

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WOrdPress & languages locale language + place + text direction + dates, numbers, currency…

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i18n & L10n

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Software l10n Translating Localization & so much more i18n creating Internationalization Translatable Software

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i18n translatable Internationalization making https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/ internationalization/ https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/ internationalization/localization/

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Theme Handbook Plugin Handbook developer.wordpress.org/ plugins/ internationalization/ developer.wordpress.org/ themes/functionality/ internationalization/

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i18n Internationalization test your i18n skills http://tinyurl.com/wpi18ntest

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l10n Translating Localization http://translate.wordpress.org http://make.wordpress.org/ polyglots/teams

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The native speakers developers non developers polyglots

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corpse by fisher We’ll eat your fingers off suffer from Diarrhea SCHWEPPeS TOILET WATER Body by fisher Turn it loose SCHWEPPeS TONIC WATER Finger lickin’ good ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH CHINESE SPANISH SPANISH ITALIAN

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Colours, shapes, sizes, styles symbols, Images, icons, graphics Social codes: humor, etiquette, rituals, myths Date & time formats, phone numbers Weights, measurements, geographical references Political views, culture sensitive content L10n > Translation

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English - official language

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HOWDY!

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HOWDY!

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HOWDY! Not cool, dude!

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How do you do! en_GB G’day! How’s it going! en_AU Kia ora! en_CA en_NZ HOWDY!

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0 25 50 75 100 2012 2013 2014 Wordpress is a CMS, not just a blogging tool 93% 89% 87%

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translate.wordpress.org resurrect a locale join a team create a team make.wordpress.org/polyglots

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choose language on install themes in your language plugins in your language WordPress WordPress, i18n & the future Plugins Themes

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translate.wordpress.org Themes Wordpress plugins make.wordpress.org/polyglots

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Theme Handbook Plugin Handbook developer.wordpress.org/ plugins/ internationalization/ developer.wordpress.org/ themes/functionality/ internationalization/