Posts tagged with ‘locale’

Localizing WordPress Themes and Plugins

Aug 14, 2007 | 27 comments

It would be easy to assume that everyone on the internet speaks English. The majority of software is produced in English simply for the reason that doing so gives it a larger potential audience (or, maybe more appropriately, gives it access into the American market). However, you shouldn't assume this means everyone reads and writes English at the same level, or that non-native speakers wouldn't want software in their own language. There is a world of speakers outside of English and now is the time to tap into them.

Maltese Falcon

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Adding a localization menu to WordPress

Jul 18, 2005 | 10 comments

You may have noticed a small drop-down menu labelled 'Localization' in the sidebar of this blog. It's something I've been playing about with since localizing the Giraffe theme and, while it doesn't magically translate the entire blog, it does provide a viewer with a simple method to change the locale.

But what is a locale? In WordPress terms it refers to the framework around which your posts are displayed. That is, the words, phrases, dates, and times, that surround your posts.

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