I just tried to get a hold of a ready-made (and working) German translation of WP-PageNavi. Unsuccessfully, though.
Here are the files, ready to download. For the sake of completeness in both, the formal and informal versions:
WP-Pagenavi 2.61 German Languagefile (Informal)
WP-Pagenavi 2.61 German Languagefile (Formal)
Have fun with it!
A few months ago – when I wasn’t as familiar with WordPress as today – I downloaded a WordPress Plugin that promised to equip single pages and posts with custom header images. I noticed, that all options in the admin area were in English, and since I set up the plugin for a friend’s website, I wanted to top off my favor by translating the English descriptions, so he wouldn’t have a hard time with them. Unfortunately the plugin was developed by an ignorant shortsighted American, so I had to put all hardcoded strings into WordPress’ translation functions myself – and translate it. A few days later (and I am not making this up) he published an update with a few minor changes and – silly me – I updated it, overwriting all alterations I worked so hard on!
My plea to all plugin and theme authors: Internationalize! It makes your plugin/theme so much more attractive for users. You don’t even have to translate it yourself. Just set it up in a way, that people can work with it – in their own languages.
In the following days, I digged deep into the possibilities of internationalization in WordPress and I would like to quickly introduce the most important functions:
Sounds tempting? There’s just one minor catch to it: Authors can’t assume that the average WordPress user has PHP 5.3 up an running on their system.
When it comes to sitemaps, there is a variety of solutions with a ton of features and options out there for grabs. But anyone following my entries will have noticed, that I rather add a couple of lines of code to my functions.php than using another plugin. So I tried to create a simple way to implement a sitemap in my blog. Here is what I came up with: