What's the point of managing core plugin translations via WordPress?

[Barbara]

Hi guys,

For some plugins, I occasionally get update notifications through the WordPress admin environment about updating translation files. Very interesting and very useful (and very easy as well :)).

Is that only done for the WordPress-‘software’ itself or should plugins like yours be part of this as well? It would make sense to push updated mo/po files through any user with that language selected without having to check the Mo/Po files manually.

Cheers,
Hans

[Geoff]

Hey Hans,

Good question. WordPress has made it known that they would like any open source plugin in the WordPress.org repo to go through WordPress.org for the translations process. We like to play by WordPress standards any time we can, so this is part of that process.

So, in other words, those updates should show up when The Events Calendar is pushed and new translations are indeed available. On the other hand, the premium plugins are managed on our translations site, where they are always available to update — though we do roll in updated translations with each dot release.

Cheers!
Geoff

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