A wise man once said, “Hard things are hard.” WPML aims to make the hard things easier by adding multilingual capabilities to your site. But during the course of your development, you will come across times when you’ll have to roll up your sleeves and get into the code to make something work. This talk will show how I’ve met challenges in site traslation, and the code that made it happen.
Topics will include
– adjusting server settings to avoid drama
– what a text domain is and how to use it
– escaping translated text and why you should
– crafting string translations that make your translator’s life easier
– making your own language switcher
– and any other gotchas I can think up.