International WordPress Sites
What is it?
Since October 2007, every team translating WordPress can have their own local web site at a wordpress.org subdomain.
The site is a WordPress install, which has three aims:
- to give brief information/description of WordPress
- to provide installation instructions
- to let the users download localized version of WordPress
- allows automatic upgrades to work with localized packages
These are accompanied by a simple blog, letting users follow the news about the translations.
What it is not?
- A place for documentation. Although not perfect, use the Codex for now.
How to get such a local site?
- First of all, you need to have a directory for your locale in the WordPress Localization Repository.
- Once you are all set with WordPress package localization files, add a couple of local site specific files:
- Translate the theme-specific pot file for your local site and commit it to your SVN repository:
http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/locale/rosetta/rosetta-locale.po
- Make a screenshot of the localized version. For inspiration, you can use those on wordpress.org. Commit the image to:
http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/locale/rosetta/shot-locale.png
- Ask for a new site on wp-polyglots mailing list. Please include these information in the message.
- Locale
- Sub-domain: use your locale and/or language.
- Site Title: the name shown on the front page. Usually "WordPress" + "country or language name".
- Site Description: tagline for the site; longer sentence which describes your site including the language and/or location.
- Admin Username(s): WordPress.org Forums username(s) for the administrators of your local site.
Example:
- Locale: es_ES.
- URL: http://es.wordpress.org/
- Site Title: WordPress Español (or WordPress Spain, WordPress España, etc.)
- Site Description: "WordPress en español de España."
- Admin Usernames: XXX, XXXX
You can also read about how to start your language's support forum site on WordPress.org.