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Revealing Our Fresh Take on Developer Guides

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As a developer with tight schedules, you don’t always have the time to read long tutorials – you want practical, hands-on guides. That’s why we’ve revamped our guide on internationalizing and translating WordPress themes and plugins. 

New Approach to Developer Tutorials

Our updated guide focuses on a practical, step-by-step approach. Instead of just explaining the theory behind internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n), it uses a demo plugin to show you exactly how it’s done. 

What’s New?

  • Step-by-Step Guide: Learn how to make a WordPress plugin translation-ready, translate text strings, and integrate these translations into your plugin.
  • Demo Plugin Workflow: Follow each step by reviewing code changes via GitHub commits.
  • Practical Examples: See real-world applications of PHP and JavaScript localization functions.
See the Updated Developer Guide

What’s in It for You?

By following this guide, you’ll be able to offer your WordPress themes and plugins in multiple languages. Whether you’re developing free, premium, or custom projects, adding language support can enhance user experience and marketability.

And that’s not all.

We have many exciting projects coming up in WPML. We’re also getting closer to releasing PTC (Private Translation Cloud) – a revolutionary software translation tool built by developers, for developers. 

We want to make sure that all our future content is as helpful and practical as possible, and your feedback can help us achieve this goal.

Tell Us What You Think

We’re excited about this new approach and want to know what you think:

  • Does this hands-on method help you more than theoretical explanations? 
  • Is there anything you think we could improve? 

Please share your feedback in the comments section below. 

2 Responses to “Revealing Our Fresh Take on Developer Guides”

  1. Please be so kind embed in the guide as well the entire multisite installation process too. Since years (despite our subscritiption which is meanwhile just one of our WPML loyalty) we weren’t be able to get WPML up and running properly at a multisite.

    Thanks