Internationalization
This document provides an overview of internationalization in WP Bones. It includes a demo of how to implement internationalization features in your plugin, using the DocsBoilerplateDemo component with the internationalization slug. The demo showcases the process of making your plugin translatable and managing translations effectively.
Overview
Internationalization (i18n) is the process of designing and developing a software application so that it can be adapted to various languages and regions without engineering changes. Localization (l10n) is the process of adapting internationalized software for a specific region or language by adding locale-specific components and translating text.
You will find more information about the internationalization process in the WordPress Codex.
Overview
WP Bones already supports the internationalization process for the PHP code.
You can find the .pot file in the languages folder in our WPBones Boilerplate plugin.
Previously the .pot file was in the localization folder. Starting from WP Bones 1.6.0 we have renamed the folder to languages.
Anyway, you can still change the folder name used for the translations in the main plugin file by using the Domain Path header.
<?php
/**
* Plugin Name: WP Kirk
* Plugin URI: https://github.com/wpbones/WPKirk
* Description: WP Bones template WordPress plugin
* Version: 1.6.0
* Requires at least: 6.2
* Requires PHP: 7.4
* Author: Giovambattista Fazioli
* Author URI: https://wpbones.com/
* License: GPLv2 or later
* License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
* Text Domain: wp-kirk
* Domain Path: languages
*
*/Under the hood WP bones uses the load_plugin_textdomain() function to load the translations.
Starting from WP Bones 1.6.0 you will be able to use the internationalization process to translate the React components and the Blocks. The plugin uses the make-pot and make-json scripts to generate the .pot and .json files.
Useful additional tools
You can also use a text editor to enter the translation. In a text editor the strings will look like this.
#: plugin-name.php:123
msgid "Page Title"
msgstr ""Here are a few tools that can be used to translate PO files online:
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