Currently i’m investigating if it’s worth the hassle to generate translation files for plugins.
I’m orientating on which tools i should use and which are the best.
Any ideas welcome. I use OSX. So Windows based tools will be worthless to me.
I’ll be experimenting with a smaller plugin IF i put this through.
A ton of information here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#Internationalizing_Your_Plugin
Any help is welcome!
[update]
Well after a few hours of searching i think this is totally doable were it not that there are NO working tools for OSX. So i guess it’s a no go after all. There is Poedit ofcourse. But it keeps writing faulty files or missing headers that are clearly there. It makes no sense and i’m not in the “fixing-other-man’s-crappy-application” business. It’s either missing a header that is present, or it cannot read the UTF-8 charset. Epic fail!
Hi, yes its bad that there are no alternative to poedit .espec on Mac. But poedit is not dead project now in ver. 1.5 and they have correct some mac issues. check changelog http://www.poedit.net/changelog.php
Would be sweet to have you plugin Events translateable!!
And just now i find plugin for eclipse gted http://www.gted.org.
And the best seems be LocFactory
http://www.triplespin.com/en/products/locfactoryeditor.html
please please give it try
I don’t have on plan on having Eclipse and buying Loc Factory isn’t worth it for me either.
you dont have to buy locfactory. they have free lite version, you can download and use right now. i supose it will satisfy your needs (just check the features table), but well i dont have mac to try…
iam curious myself. planing to switch for this soft.. maybe if you try, can you write a post review about it to promote it more? //iam not developer:-)//
Well i’ve tried locfactory… it cannot read the .pot files that wordpress.org makes.
Poedit could not either…