Recent I18N Improvements in WordPress Core

Caching, timezones and internationalisation are just a few things that make developers cringe. In this lightning talk at WordCamp London 2017 I highlight some recent enhancement in the field of I18N in WordPress to show how we’ve got you covered. I also gave a glimpse at what may come in the future.

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1. Recent I18N Improvements in WordPress Core
2. Language Packs
4. WordPress 4.6
6. load_plugin_textdomain( 'myplugin', false, 'languages' )
7. Good bye, load_plugin_textdomain()
8. Just-in-time Loading for Translations
9. WordPress 4.7
10. User Admin Language
12. Back End: Français Front End: English
13. Locale Switching
14. $switched = switch_to_locale( get_user_locale() ) // Do stuff. if ( $switched ) { restore_previous_locale(); }
16. Beyond
17. Preferred Languages
19. JavaScript Internationalisation
20. // PHP: wp_localize_script( 'myplugin-script', '_myPluginL10n', array( 'helloWorld' => __( 'Hello World','myplugin' ) ) ); // JS: alert( _myPluginL10n.helloWorld );
21. wp.i18n.__( 'Hello World' )
22. User Timezones
24. Thanks!