Built-in Plugin Wishlist
For the next version of Fauna, I want to know which plugins you want built-in support for. For the beta 1 release I chose only the ones I saw as the most important, but obviously I’m missing a few.
So please leave a comment if Fauna is missing support for your favourite plugin.
I think Ultimate Tag Warrior should be included for sure. Although it’s very easy to incorporate it would still be nice to have it built in.
flickrRSS, Ultimate Tag Warrior, Gravatar. And please provide an easy way for localization of the theme…
“Ultimate Tag Warrior” and “del.icio.us cached” and easy localization would be nice. I could translate it to Norwegian and make it available for the enormous horde of Norwegian bloggers who want Fauna in Norwegian :p
flickrRSS, Blogtimes, Nice Categories
Thanks for your feedback guys.
I see a few duplicates here, they’ll obviously get included.
As for “easy localization”, I’ll need some more info.
I’ve already used the function @_e@ to allow all text strings to be localized using a single external file, as described here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress
Do you guys need anything else than this?
I helped with a localization for the theme Squible, but for that i was provided with a .pot-file. I don’t know too much about the localization process, but i guess, you would have to provide a file with all the strings and then somehow include it in the theme again…
Oooh, that makes sense. You somehow have to scour all the _e strings in the theme, put them in an external file and allow people to translate these.
Well, I do want to do this, but I can also tell you that I won’t have time to do this until, at the earliest, mid january.
If you know, how to do it and can explain it in a rather simple way, then i’m sure, this could get done by your community earlier - eg, i have a lot of time at the moment, so i volunteer for it…
Ralph,
Thanks so much for your offering.
I took a look at what’s required to create such a file, and it seems it’s actually somewhat automated:
The first step in the localization process. A program is used to search through the WordPress source code and pick out every string passed to a __() or _e() function. This list is put together in a specially-formatted template file that will form the basis of all translations.
The second step in the localization process. Using the POT file as a template, the list of messages are translated and saved as a PO file.
The final step in the localization process. The PO file is run through a program that turns it into an optimized machine-readable binary file, which is the MO file. Compiling the translations to machine code makes the localized program much faster in retrieving the translations while it is running.
For these steps there are a number of options mentioned on http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress
I’m not sure if you’re up for the challenge, but if you are, I’d appreciate it very much!
chalk up another UTW and Gravatar request. I’m not too sure about FlickrRSS, would be good for use but I feel sidebar implementation would break up the clean look and feel to Fauna. Personal choice of course.
Gravatars make sense now that there’s favatars.
In general a requirement for implementation of a plugin to Fauna is that it’s upload and activate. If it requires further information such as username, and this is not provided by the plugin option, I will not add support for it.
Ok, i want to give localization / translation an try. Just one more question: Can two different localizations for the backend and theme be used at the same time? I mean, for the backend there is already a translation, so i would “only” have to go for the theme…
I’m afraid that already now, you know more than me about this. My guess is yes, since they’re in two separate directories, so I imageine they’d grab POT files from separate languages sub directories.
Can someone make an POT file available? As of what I’ve understood, every translator can use the file. Besides, I don’t think I’ll manage to get gettext working in OS X this year…
If there’s a POT file available, I can do the rest, I hope…
Another Gravatar vote, and UTW. Have a look at my archive page - I have UTW in there, but be damned if I can get the styling right. If anyone wants to help, I want it to look like (more or less) the tag cloud at Binary Bonsai.
I’d also like to be able to show tags for posts and bring up a tag archive with a header. I haven’t tried doing this, but probably could. Too busy this week.
Erm… Tired. Posting at midnight. UTW is working fine as far as the cloud is concerned. I’d still like proper Tag Archives and tag listings on posts. I’m using a folksonomy rather than categories, so I want tags to be ultra-functional.
I’d also like Extended Live Archives, but ONLY the time-based view. And here is where my styling sucks. Any ELA gurus?
Regarding localization, this post by Boren may help a bit.
As for the plugin wishlist, your comment preview thingy would be very swell to have (or did I miss it in Fauna B1 somehow?). I’d like to add code viewer to the list, but being quite specialized I don’t know if any others may be interested too. Edit comments would be something wonderful to have included in WordPress itself, why not in Fauna? ;) And perhaps quote comment would be a nice addition too.
Just my 2 pennies
Serge, that’s good feedback.
As I’ve warned earlier, I won’t be able to update fauna until early next year, but I’ll read through all of this when I do.
I too, like the “quote comment” feature, and I adore the “edit comments” feature. I think adding a “quote comment” feature makes sense, but “edit comments” will have to wait until it matures a bit and gets the quirks worked out… it’s quite a bit of editing of the comments.php template, so I want to make sure I’m not doing it in vain.
I found this post on [wp-hackers] and, after some searches, I sort of rediscovered this on the old WordPress Wiki (WordPress Localization may also help).
It’s not a ready-made solution for Windows, but the info on those posts/pages could help in creating the POT file for Fauna (or K2, for that matter, since Michael seems also interested in this ).
That being said, translating Fauna even without gettext/poEdit is the matter of a good afternoon’s work (and lots of tea, granted).
BTW, Joen, I really hope to make a clean translation of Fauna in French, and perhaps in Italian, around January. If anybody needs a French translation meanwhile, I can send a copy of the (somewhat hacked) files used over at tcf.ch , but you’ll be on your own in rolling them back to the original Fauna (not many changes were made, I mainly adapted the noteworthy and asides functionality). You can drop me a line at serkel_at_gmail_dot_com
Finally (and then I stop spamming this thread, i promise!), for all German-speaking people out there, there is this article at WordPress.de which seems pretty complete about the creation of POT files and the use of poEdit.
live search would be also nice… :D
All of these are great. I really like the quote comments and the edit comments would be nice but yes as you said, it is a long process to implement. Thanks for your work, I love the theme.
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Jean
A question for you Universal Tag Warrior users.
How would you like the built in support?
Technorati Tags, Internal Tags? On the home page or permalinks or both? What else?
Mmh… I’d say internal tags first, if technorati/del.icio.us tags can be added even better, but not a must. Internal tags are useful for my own content, though.
That being said, having them on the permalink’ed post would be sufficient for me (it also avoids visual clutter on the homepage).
That’s just me, though…
reply to 21: what i don’t really understand is, if this procedure is meant only for WP itself or can be used for themes as well…
reply to 25: i’d also like to see internal tags. It would be nice to have the option to use
a.) internal tags,
b.) internal + technorati tags (with icon),
c.) internal + technorati tags + RSS for tag (with icons).
Ralph: LiveSearch per se can be applied a little bit everywhere where you have search forms. See here for more information , but basically it is a set of javascript adding that functionality to a search form.
HTH
@Joen
Internal and technorati please
Ok, i used the tutorial from comment 20 and built a rudimentary german translation.
What is the next step, to make the theme use this po-file?
Would it be possible to integrate something like “Nifty Corners” into the code? So, I could make rounded boxes rather than square on a box-by-box basis. For example, have the sidebar have rounded corners and the comment boxes be squared. Ty.
how can i have gravatars appear on my site and favatars? my sites blog is in a subdir
also how can i get the comment live preview like i see beneath this comment box?
Makki - I just read somewhere that the live preview will be in the next release..
Would be great if you could add in your script for have multiple link categories available to show on page instead of just one main one - and to add to these categories, please also make available that we can use graphics/buttons to link to as well.
Technorati pings do not go unnoticed, a large amount of my traffic is from them. I do not care which plugin, but I need technorati in the post meta!
Great job so far, don’t fail me now! ;)