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afragen/language-pack-maker
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Library that helps create git sourced WordPress Language Packs from po files.

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Language Pack Maker
===================

[](#language-pack-maker)

Requires PHP 7.0 or higher.

Uses `class Language_Pack_Maker` installed via composer into your local translation repository to create a directory of zip archives of translation .mo/.po/.json files and a `language-pack.json` file containing data to pass to [Git Updater](https://github.com/afragen/git-updater) or [Translations Updater library](https://github.com/afragen/translations-updater).

Install the package via composer.

Run the composer command: `composer require afragen/language-pack-maker:dev-master`

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

This library requires all .po files to be in a `/languages` directory located in the repository root.

- It will copy all .po files from `/languages` to a temporary directory.
- It will create .mo files from the .po files.
- It will create .l10n.php files from the .po files.
- It will create .json translation files for your javascript.
- It will create zipfiles in a `/packages` directory in the repository root.
- It will create a `language-pack.json` file in the repository root.
- It will cleanup/remove the temporary directory when finished.

The format of the generated JSON file is as follows.

```
[
  {
    "{language}": [
      {
        "type": "{plugin|theme} from GitHub Updater",
        "slug": "{$slug}",
        "language": "en_US",
        "version": "from GitHub Updater",
        "updated": "PO-Revision-Date from .po file header",
        "package": "/packages/github-updater-en_US.zip",
        "autoupdate": "1"
      }
    ]
  }
]
```

The update transient expects the `$transient->translations` in the following format.

```
$transient->translations( array(
	0 => array(
		'type'       => 'plugin',
		'slug'       => 'akismet',
		'language'   => 'de_CH',
		'version'    => '3.1.11',
		'updated'    => '2016-05-12 18:04:38',
		'package'    => 'https://downloads.wordpress.org/translation/plugin/akismet/3.1.11/de_CH.zip',
		'autoupdate' => 1,

	),
) );
```

[Git Updater](https://github.com/afragen/git-updater) or the [Translations Updater library](https://github.com/afragen/translations-updater) will merge the correlative plugin or theme data with the data retrieved from the `language-pack.json` to add data to the update transient. Language updates will appear in the WordPress dashboard.

To utilize the Language Pack Creator, you will need to open and run `http://localhost//vendor/autoload.php` in localhost. This will create the necessary .mo, .l10n.php, .json, zipfiles, and `language-pack.json`.

With the following added to your `composer.json` file, it will run the sequence described above on `composer make-language-packs`.

```
  "scripts": {
    "make-language-packs": [
      "php ./vendor/autoload.php"
    ]
  }

```

###  Health Score

20

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LowBetter than 13% of packages

Maintenance29

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity18

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity17

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 95.6% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

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