Where applicable, please strive for making all strings available for translation. Consider the following guidelines when doing so:
PHP
- Instead of
__
,_e
,_x
and similar functions, use their safe versions:esc_html__
,esc_html_e
,esc_html_x
and others where possible. - Use an appropriate unique text domain in your plugin or Composer package.
- Make use of our Automattic/jetpack-composer-plugin and related packages to ensure i18n works in the published plugin.
JavaScript
- Use Gutenberg’s @wordpress/i18n package.
- Use an appropriate unique text domain in your JS code.
- Make use of @automattic/babel-plugin-replace-textdomain when building to ensure i18n works in the published plugin.
- When using TypeScript in Webpack, use
@babel/preset-typescript
rather thants-loader
.- To generate
.d.ts
files, eitherfork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin
ortsc --emitDeclarationOnly
may be used.
- To generate