Internationalizing WordPress projects are arguably more important now than ever. With WordPress’ market share as large as it is, it’s never been used by such a wide audience.

To that end, it makes sense that a project accessible to people all over the world can be translated into the various languages said people use.

I think it’s important to make a clear distinction, though:

• If you’re working on a project for a particular client and you know that it doesn’t need to support internationalization, then building the project for that specific language is okay.
• If on the other hand, you’re working on a theme or a plugin that will be distributed in one of the public repositories or marketplaces and has the potential to be used by people who speak a language different than your own, then your should be internationalizing your project.

In the past few years, it’s become easier than ever to internationalize WordPress projects. And in my latest set of articles for Envato, I’m walking readers through exactly how to do it.

Continue reading

Partials in WordPress, regardless of if they are part of a plugin or part of a theme, can help maintaining a project much easier (let alone building a project).

But if you’re working with them to help drive your settings pages or your WordPress administration pages, part of working with them is making sure they are adequately represented on the server-side, too.

Generally speaking, this is usually referred to as the domain logic or may even be thought of as part of the “model” or “controller” code when thinking regarding MVC. Of course, this isn’t MVC, and I’m no fan of trying to apply patterns where they don’t fit.

My point, though, is that I’m talking about object-oriented classes that are responsible for managing data and handling coordinating information rendered in the partials and how the user interacts with it.

Continue reading

Templates in WordPress is a topic that seems to come up for discussion every now and again. There are plugins aiming to make it possible, too. And though I’m intrigued by the idea, I’ve yet to go all in on it.

That’s a topic of discussion for another post, though.

Over the last few years of writing plugins for others, one of the things I’ve found to be one of the easiest things to do is to separate our views into partials.

Continue reading