wordpress in not english - wordcamp hamburg 2014
DESCRIPTION
Presentation from WC Hamburg about how using WordPress in languages other than English can sometimes be frustrating, and what the community is doing about this.TRANSCRIPT
WordPress in not English
Yoav Farhi
yoavfarhi.com
@yoavf
Yoav Farhi
Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiønër
Automattic
2.7 2.8 2.9 3.0 3.1
3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6
3.7 3.8 3.9
Today
• What's broken • How we're going to fix it • Questions
Install
1. Get and upload language files (?)
2. Edit wp-config.php
3. Some things are still in English
Change language
Themes & Plugins
Update
Let's fix it
Install & CoreUpgrades
• No more locales builds*
• Language can easily be changed (during or after install)
• Updates to language packs can happen between WordPress releases too
Core Language Packs
• Builds with custom PHP/CSS
• Translation of Readmes, licences etc
Technical Challenges
Themes & Plugins
• Localized directories
• Plugins/Themes in the directories will show supported languages (available via search too)
• Also in your WordPress Install
Themes and Plugins
• Detecting what is translated to what
• Get more plugins and themes translated
• Set translations free from developers (and developers free from translations)
Challenges
• For themes and plugins in the repository.
• Independent from plugin/theme authors
• All translations at http://translate.wordpress.org Think: translation-memory, fuzzy matching...
Language Packs
cc by-nc-sa thewmatt http://flic.kr/p/3QMH8y
• Internationalization goals for 4.0http://wp.me/p2AvED-2ID
• http://make.wordpress.org/core/components/i18n/
Help!
Thanks!