[wp-hackers] Improving Plugin (and Theme) metadata

[Jennifer Hodgdon]

Right. But the trac ticket's patch doesn't address that concern; just 
the explanation of how to set up a plugin file was incorrect.

     --Jennifer

Ryan Boren wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008 3:11 PM, Jennifer Hodgdon <yahgrp at poplarware.com> wrote:
>> I say: +1 on Westi's suggestion, reluctantly, since I like having just
>> one plugin file with all the info at the top.
>>
>> However, since I didn't fully understand what Ryan was talking about
>> in his latest comment on the Trac ticket, Ryan -- does this satisfy
>> your concerns?
>>     http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3089#comment:20
> 
> Yes. This meets those concerns.
> 
> When creating a gettext po file, we search the source for __() and
> _e() and extract the strings within them.  Strings meant for
> translation must be within __() or _e() somewhere in the source.  If a
> plugin's files don't do __() or _e() on the metadata strings, those
> strings won't be available for translation lookups.
> 
> Doing __($variable) will result in the literal string "$variable"
> showing up in the po file.  We don't want that.


-- 
Jennifer Hodgdon

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