Internationalization for Your WordPress Theme

WordPress is used to create a variety of types of websites. When building a WordPress theme, you should build it for as large of an audience as possible. That goal also implies that your theme should be ready for sites in different languages. WordPress provides a simple API that you can use in a theme to provide internationalization for it. In this article, you will see how you can make your theme ready for different languages.

How to Configure WordPress for Different Languages

You can add different languages to your WordPress site. For that, you can download the translation files from the blog of the WordPress translator team. From this page, you can see the various languages whose translations are present, as well as what percentage of the translation is complete. Suppose I want to download the French language. I will go to the French language row, then click on the percentage as shown in the image below.

Then, you can click on the WordPress version, and export the .mo file as shown in the image below

Once you have downloaded the .mo file, you will have to upload it to the wp-content/languages folder of your WordPress installation. You can then go to the Settings -> General in your WordPress admin. There you should be able to see the language options which you have put in the wp-content/languages folder as shown below in the image. Please select the desired language you want to change the site to and click 'Save Changes'

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Podcast: Google Ventures on When Design Sprints Go Bad

In 2016 Google Ventures (GV) design partner Jake Knapp released a seminal book called Sprint. The book introduced the idea of 'Design Sprints', a concept that had existed within Google for several years and was a mainstay in the toolset employed by GV with their portfolio of companies.

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Many of you will have heard of Design Sprints and perhaps even read the book. Some of you may have even run one. The design community at large loved the idea and before long articles were popping up all over the web and consultancies were adding Design Sprints to their lists of services.

When Design Sprints Go Bad

The beauty of Jake’s book is that it is very specific, there is even a 15-page checklist for when you are running your own Design Sprints. However, this didn't stop a swathe of folks from appropriating the name, but not the core ideas. This in turn meant is that acts were being committed under the name of Design Sprint but were not even remotely close to what Jake describes in Sprint.

The next domino to fall was the inevitable backlash announcing thatDesign Sprint are snake oil. In this episode of True North, we speak with Jake and Michael Margolis, a UX Research Partner at GV, about how design sprints were created, what they really are, and when they are best used.

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We also visit the enterprise giant,Aus Post, speaking to a team lead where they ran 4 sprints in 5 weeks. Their story was featured on theSprint Stories blog.

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Creating a Blogging App Using React, Part 1: User Sign-In

VaynerX

Neat reference to a simple Parent Company One Pager for VaynerX - who now host VaynerMedia and PureWow.

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Searching for Syria

Searching for Syria is a responsive, interactive site made in partnership with UNHCR. It explores the top five questions the world is asking about the Syrian refugee crisis.
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Why We Explore

Gorgeous One Pager for 'Why We Explore' - a unique Single Page blog about Space Exploration. Owner and developer Nicolas Lanthemann says the idea was to learn more about modern web technologies - just love how he combined this with a passion. The horizontal scrolling site features a draggable interface, interactive comets for the news and an image-of-the day-pulled from NASA's RSS feed. Final shout out to the VR mode if browsing on your phone, super impressive!

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Divergent Realities: Augmented vs Virtual Reality (infographic)

Oftentimes you will hear about virtual reality and augmented reality in the same sentence, as though they are the same technologies. There are some important differences between the two, though. Augmented reality is a more integrative technology, in which the world becomes your screen and things...

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