WordPress in not English

Yoav Farhi

yoavfarhi.com

@yoavf

Yoav Farhi

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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

Auf deutsch, bitte!

cc by-nc https://flic.kr/p/c1APuC

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

Let’s get to work

cc-by galato901 http://yoav.fr/towork

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!