There are some strings in Twenty Ten 1.3-alpha .pot which purpose is unclear to me, since they don’t seem to be used anywhere. They are commented as follows:
- Theme Name of the plugin/theme
- Description of the plugin/theme
- Author of the plugin/theme
- Tags of the plugin/theme
Import plugins in GlotPress have this kind of strings too. Is this a groundwork for translatable descriptions in the future? Are they intended for translation? Am I missing something?
pavelevap, and 
WP Polyglots 
Milan Dinić 7:17 pm on November 27th, 2010 Permalink |
When gettext tools are used for generation of POT file for plugin/theme, they also put those information from header. If translated, you will see those translations at WP’s admin.
Sergey Biryukov 11:55 am on November 28th, 2010 Permalink |
I’ve translated these strings, however they are still displayed in English on Manage Themes page both in WordPress 3.0.1 and 3.1 Beta 1, because current_theme_info() uses the data directly from style.css, without calling any of the l10n functions. So I still wonder what is the purpose of their presence in the .pot file.
pavelevap 5:06 pm on December 5th, 2010 Permalink |
Yes, I reported this problem several months ago – http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14063
Sergey Biryukov 6:01 pm on December 5th, 2010 Permalink |
Thanks for the link. I completely forgot about that ticket and was going to create a new one.