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[Localization & i18n](/categories/localization) 4. / 5. afragen/language-pack-maker ActiveLibrary[Localization & i18n](/categories/localization) afragen/language-pack-maker =========================== Library that helps create git sourced WordPress Language Packs from po files. 12964PHP Since Nov 11Pushed 1y ago2 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/afragen/language-pack-maker)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/afragen/language-pack-maker)[ RSS](/packages/afragen-language-pack-maker/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced yesterday READMEChangelogDependenciesVersions (1)Used By (0) 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 — LowBetter than 14% of packages Maintenance30 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity19 Limited adoption so far Community12 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity16 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. 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