Easiest way to create localization POT file for WordPress theme?

On my themes I’m starting to get a lot of requests for localization capabilities… and because I’m just a silly American that only speaks English, it’s never occurred to me to learn how to do it. I’ve been reading about it on a bunch of different websites (WordPress Codex, neettuts, and a bunch of other stuff I found on Google) and I’m getting a little confused.

I have gone through my entire theme and made all outputted strings that the users see like this: __("Text here...").

But now I’m having trouble figuring out how to create a POT file, which is the final step now if I understand correctly?

I’ve found many different ways of creating POT files and I’m not having much luck. Do you guys have any tips on this? What is the easiest way to create a POT file for your theme? How do you guys do it?

Probably you know about it, but this sounds pretty easy and straightforward, what doesn’t work out for you?

Hi themeblvd! Check this Hope this will help.

Ah yes I really want to know this too! I’ve done the same thing as you, making all my outputted strings __(“stuff”) compatible. I just want to know an easy way to convert the rest of the (static) text in my themes. Anyone have any tips or tuts?

Thanks!

Hi themeblvd! Check this Hope this will help.

Thanks man! Really useful!

Hi themeblvd! Check this Hope this will help.

Ahw great! Thanks for the link

This also helped me:

http://www.deluxeblogtips.com/2010/04/how-to-localize-themes-in-wordpress.html

This also helped me:

http://www.deluxeblogtips.com/2010/04/how-to-localize-themes-in-wordpress.html

this is the same man. Only one notice guys use TEMPLATEPATH instead of TEMPLATE _PATH. For me TEMPLATE _PATH doesn’t work

This also helped me:

http://www.deluxeblogtips.com/2010/04/how-to-localize-themes-in-wordpress.html

this is the same man. Only one notice guys use TEMPLATEPATH instead of TEMPLATE _PATH. For me TEMPLATE _PATH doesn’t work

I use my own themepath just because that problem, the get_template_directory() is relative to the PARENT theme.

So on functions:

define('THEME_PATH', get_template_directory());

load_theme_textdomain( 'my_theme', THEME_PATH . '/languages' );

$locale = get_locale();

$locale_file = THEME_PATH . "/languages/$locale.php";

if ( is_readable( $locale_file ) ) require_once( $locale_file );

Then i use poedit for the .po and .mo files.

This also helped me:

http://www.deluxeblogtips.com/2010/04/how-to-localize-themes-in-wordpress.html

this is the same man. Only one notice guys use TEMPLATEPATH instead of TEMPLATE _PATH. For me TEMPLATE _PATH doesn’t work

Oh, didn’t noticed ! Sorry…