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Opened 10 years ago

Last modified 5 months ago

#30169 new feature request

show available languages in theme details

Reported by: kniebremser's profile Kniebremser Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version:
Component: Themes Keywords:
Focuses: Cc:

Description

Hi!

WordPress reads it from the header of the theme style.css the data for the theme-details.
There, but an additional line can be added.
Languages​​: with the available languages ​​(en, fr, it, de, etc)

This could in theme details are made visible and at the wordpress.org themes in the discription.

This would facilitate users to find a theme that does not speak English.
When looking on wordpress.org theme would be an additional criterion in the Theme selection.

Change History (9)

#1 @Apiweb
10 years ago

I think this functionality should also be extended to the plugins.

Another suggestion would be to add a filter, displaying only the themes / plugins that have translation, or are prepared for translation.

#2 @Kniebremser
10 years ago

That would be the second step.
Theme details come frome the style.css. Plugin details come frome plugin.php.

Step 3:
Add to profile at wordpress.org your preferred language.
And now you could be displayed on wordpress.org by the search at plugins and themes in your language first.
I think there would be much changed.
But it would be much easier for users.

#3 follow-up: @johnbillion
10 years ago

This will probably be done at the wordpress.org API level (instead of requiring themes and plugins to maintain this information themselves) as part of the per-language functionality which is being added to the plugin directory in time for WordPress 4.1.

I'll leave this ticket open as a tracking ticket for now.

#4 in reply to: ↑ 3 @Kniebremser
10 years ago

Replying to johnbillion:

This will probably be done at the wordpress.org API level (instead of requiring themes and plugins to maintain this information themselves) as part of the per-language functionality which is being added to the plugin directory in time for WordPress 4.1.

I'll leave this ticket open as a tracking ticket for now.

the first step could be already done.
The tags of the style.css are displayed under theme-details.
Then you could still display the available languages ​​in WP 4.1.
Then the theme / plugin developer and the bad boy's from wordpress.org the API have enough time to adjust everything to WP4.2. And if all childhood diseases are eliminated in one go the same for plugins.

#5 @boonebgorges
10 years ago

  • Version trunk deleted

#6 @swissspidy
9 years ago

  • Keywords 2nd-opinion added

Is this still a thing with the localized plugin/theme directories?

Is this a WordPress.org-API-only thing?

#7 @SergeyBiryukov
9 years ago

  • Component changed from I18N to Themes

Related: #meta1383

#9 @poena
5 months ago

  • Keywords 2nd-opinion removed

Even though there are localized theme directories on .org, WordPress itself does not show the information about available languages.

Not all translations are provided through the API, themes can also include the translation files.
Instead of listing the languages in style.css, WP could look for the languages by interpreting the files in a designated theme folder.

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