WordCamp Geneva: Recent I18N Improvements in WordPress

Slides for my presentation at WordCamp Geneva, Switzerland, on November 18th, 2016.

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1. Internationalization Improvements in WordPress 4.6 and Beyond
2. Pascal Birchler
 @swissspidy
3. Language Packs, the Early Days
4. Automatic Updates
6. Change Your Mind
8. Language Packs for Plugins and Themes
9. WordPress 4.6
10. Localized Datepicker
12. Language Packs More Important Than Ever
13. Loading Translations in Different Order
14. load_plugin_textdomain( 'myplugin', false, 'languages' )
15. wp-content/plugins/myplugin/ languages/… ! wp-content/languages/plugins/…
16. wp-content/languages/plugins/… ! wp-content/plugins/myplugin/ languages/…
17. Just-in-time Loading for Translations
18. wp-content/languages
19. // Do stuff. _e( 'Hello World’, 'myplugin' ); // …Magic happens… // Prints: Hallo Welt
20. wp-content/languages/plugins/myplugin-de_DE.mo
21. Good bye, load_plugin_textdomain()
22. WordPress 4.7
23. User Admin Language
26. Back End: Français Front End: English
28. Locale Switching
29. switch_to_locale()
30. $switched = switch_to_locale( get_user_locale() ) // Do stuff. if ( $switched ) { restore_previous_locale(); }
31. Send Emails In the User’s Language
32. What About the Admin Toolbar?
34. Beyond
35. Preferred Languages
37. JavaScript Internationalization
38. // PHP: wp_localize_script( 'myplugin-script', '_myPluginL10n', array( 'helloWorld' => __( 'Hello World','myplugin' ) ) ); // JS: alert( _myPluginL10n.helloWorld );
39. if ( 1 == number ) { use( _myPluginL10n.singularString ); } else { use( _myPluginL10n.pluralString ); }
40. wp.i18n.__( 'Hello World' )
41. wp-content/languages/plugins/myplugin-de_DE.json
42. Good bye, wp_localize_script()
43. User Timezones
45. Questions?
46. Thanks!