WordPress is a worldwide phenomenon, with users embracing the platform all around the globe. To create a more specific experience for users in different locales, WordPress offers the ability to translate all of its user- and visitor-facing content, resulting in numerous localizations becoming available for download online. Like most other functionalities in the platform, internationalization is also available to plugin developers through a set of easy-to-use functions--the main difference being that plugin translations are typically included with the extension, instead of being downloaded separately as is the case with WordPress.
To prepare their plugin to be localized, developers must use special internationalization functions when dealing with text elements. Once this structure is in place, any users can create localizations by themselves for languages that they...
