WordPress Internationalization Workflows

I've presented an updated version of my WordPress I18N Workflows talk at WordCamp Johannesburg 2018.

In this presentation I'm explaining how internationalization and localization work in WordPress and how one can leverage the powers of WordPress, GlotPress, and WP-CLI to improve the translation workflow in their WordPress projects.

Transcript

1. WordPress Internationalization Workflows WordCamp Johannesburg 2018
2. Pascal Birchler
 @swissspidy
3. What You Will Learn Today
4. WordPress + Internationalization
5. Making a Plugin Translation-Ready
6. Internationalization Workflow Optimization
7. Prerequisites
8. The process of creating a product in such a way that it can be easily adapted to specific local languages and cultures Internationalization (I18N)
9. The process of adapting a product or service to a particular language, culture, and desired local “look-and-feel.” Localization (L10N)
10. “Localization is like translation but with a cultural twist” Localization
11. Internationalization Done Right bit.ly/i18nDoneRight
12. WordPress I18N Efforts
13. Making WordPress Global
14. translate.wordpress.org
17. Language Packs
18. WordPress Plugin Internationalization Behind the Scenes
19. WordPress Plugin Internationalization WordPress.org
20. Writing a Plugin
21. my-plugin/ my-plugin.php readme.txt
22. <?php /** * Plugin Name: My Super Awesome Plugin * Plugin URI: https://wordpress.org/plugins/my-plugin/ * Description: My WordPress plugin that does nothing. * Version: 1.0.0 * Author: Pascal Birchler * Author URI: https://pascalbirchler.com */ __( 'Translate me', 'my-plugin' );
23. === 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.
24. WordPress.org Plugin Directory
25. wordpress.org/plugins/my-plugin
26. translate.wordpress.org
28. wp-content/ languages/ my-plugin-de_DE.mo my-plugin-de_DE.po
29. 1. Write Plugin 2. Submit to WordPres.org 3. Translate 4. Done!
30. WordPress Plugin Internationalization Private Plugin
31. Writing a Plugin
32. String Extraction
33. <?php /** * Plugin Name: My Super Awesome Plugin * Plugin URI: https://wordpress.org/plugins/my-plugin/ * Description: My WordPress plugin that does nothing. * Version: 1.0.0 * Author: Pascal Birchler * Author URI: https://pascalbirchler.com */ __( 'Translate me', 'my-plugin' );
34. makepot grunt-wp-i18n Poedit
35. my-plugin/ my-plugin.php languages/ my-plugin.pot
36. Manual Translation
37. my-plugin/ my-plugin.php languages/ my-plugin.pot my-plugin-de_DE.po my-plugin-de_DE.mo
38. load_plugin_textdomain( 'my-plugin', false, __DIR__ . '/languages' )
39. 1. Write Plugin 2. String Extraction 3. Translate 4. Load Translations 5. Done!
40. Comparison
41. 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
42. Introducing Traduttore
43. WordPress.org For Everyone
44. translate.wordpress.org For Everyone
47. How it Works
48. WP-CLI
49. # Create a POT file for the WordPress plugin in the current directory $ wp i18n make-pot . languages/my-plugin.pot
50. github.com/wp-cli/i18n-command
52. \Required\Traduttore_Registry\add_project( 'plugin', 'my-plugin', 'https://translate.example.com/api/translations/my-plugin/' );
54. 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
55. required.com/en/blog/
57. github.com/wearerequired/traduttore github.com/wearerequired/traduttore-registry
58. What's Next
59. Improving Traduttore
60. Improving translate.wordpress.org
61. Gutenberg
62. JavaScript Internationalization
64. Thank You.