

Internationalization: You’re probably doing it wrong.You definitely need to read the following two articles by Otto: These should be enough to get things started and do things properly, right? Probably, you already thought that instead of typing a text-domain over and over, you will use a variable or a constant, so that you can easily copy-paste from theme to theme, right? Translation with POEdit – Internationalize / Localize WP Themes Guide – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3.I am not going to repeat what already has been written, so here is a small list of tutorials on the subject (in case you are too lazy to search for them): There are a lot of excellent tutorials on the web regarding how to prepare your WordPress theme for translation, as well as how to translate it using Poedit. pot you can create translation files without much of the following information. If your theme provides an up-to-date language file, either. The free, open source version of Poedit will continue to get updates and will remain community-supported.Please note: The following tutorial is mostly about creating language files from scratch. Poedit Pro costs $19.99 for a license and it comes with direct, personal support from the Poedit developer. Of course, you can still set it up manually with the free version of the app.

This is useful if you don’t know anything about gettext, don’t want to spend time learning it or simply want to add a little bit of automation into your translation process. It automatically sets everything up for you when you create a new translation. Poedit Pro provides intuitive support for translating WordPress themes and plugins. Poedit 1.6 brings a more polished UI, a completely new translation memory implementation, word count, and improved handling of languages and user-friendly plural forms expressions. This release introduces a new Pro version of the app with built-in support for translating WordPress themes and plugins. For many WordPress developers, Poedit is their go-to app for generating language files for extensions. Poedit 1.6 was released earlier this week.
