[wp-hackers] wordpress.org *.pot file feature for plugins gets broken by PoEdit

[Stephen Rider]

Am I correct in thinking this would only work if the plugin is  
active?  This info needs to work for inactive plugins too.  Also it  
seems to require double-entry of data, which to me is a bad idea.

Stephen

On Jul 19, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Heiko Rabe wrote:

> ...

> This dissenting message entry creation is not standardized and won't  
> work with normal gettext pasing applications.
> There should be introduced a safe way this can also be handled by re- 
> scanning with gettext applications, otherwise this feature is  
> worthless.
> One option would be a section of code only for purpose of getting  
> this right by gettext processors like:
>
> function my_plugin_data($plugin_data) {
>   $plugin['Name'] => __('....', 'custom-field-images'),
>   $plugin['Title'] => __('....', 'custom-field-images'),
>   $plugin['PluginURI'] => __('....', 'custom-field-images'),
>   $plugin['Description'] =>__('....', 'custom-field-images'),
>   $plugin['Author'] => __('....', 'custom-field-images'),
>   $plugin['AuthorURI'] => __('....', 'custom-field-images'),
>   $plugin['Version'] => __('....', 'custom-field-images'),
>   $plugin['TextDomain'] => __('....', 'custom-field-images') ,
>   $plugin['DomainPath'] => __('....', 'custom-field-images')
>   return $plugin_data;
> }
> add_filter('wp_plugin_data-' .'custom-field-images',  
> 'my_plugin_data');