If you want to echo the translated string, then you will be using _e and when you just want to have the translated string, then you will be using __. Example: _e(‘this is a message’, ‘twentyfourteen’); is same as echo __(‘this is a message’, ‘twentyfourteen’);
There is a second argument in the __() function. It should be set to the domain you are are using for your plugin or theme. In the examples below I use ‘text_domain’. Your domain string should be unique. It should not match any other domain string. Not using a text domain argument defaults to ‘default’ … Read more
The Editor There are others, but this is most used: Poedit, a cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. The Formats .mo stands for Machine Object — compiled export of the .po file which is used by WordPress .po stands for Portable Object — editable text file with the translations strings — based on the master … Read more
You may try Eazy Po. From file menu select “New from source code files..”. In xgettext Command Manager window; Press “Browse folder” to select base source folder. In Build pane press “Execute Command” button to generate Pot file.
We are facing 2 problems with timber and WPML, we enabled the translation per domain (3 domains). We have the default French version, a Belgian version and a Swiss version. (website.fr, website.be and website.ch). The first one is that our translations are not taken into account. We used this syntax to recognize our translatable fields: … Read more
‘\0′ equals 0. It’s a relic from C, which doesn’t have any string type at all and uses char arrays instead. The null character is used to mark the end of a string; not a very wise decision in retrospect – most other string implementations use a dedicated counter variable somewhere, which makes finding the end of … Read more