Jorge Pedret » Wordpress

Pears: Common patterns of markup & style

Jorge Pedret — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:08:00 +0000

Great WordPress theme for creating a pattern library

How to translate WordPress’ admin to a different language?

Jorge Pedret — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:40:52 +0000

While traveling in Venezuela, I was helping a friend setup his first WordPress site. He loved every single part of it, except that it was all in English and he wanted to see it in Spanish. Que problem-o.

Using a different language for WordPress’ admin, was something I’ve always wanted to learn, so I started looking around and I couldn’t believe how easy it was…

1. Download the language files

Go to this url http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language and search for the language that you’re looking for:

Find the language that you’re looking for (i.e.: es_ES)
Download the whole WordPress package for that language
Uncompress the downloaded .zip file
All the language files will be under the /wp-content/languages/ directory

2.Move the languages files to your current WordPress installation

Copy the language files from the previously uncompressed package (from /wp-content/languages/) and move them to /wp-content/languages/ in your current WordPress installation.

3. Change the wp-config.php file

Go to the /wp-config.php file in your current WordPress installation and change the WPLANG constant to your language.

This is what mine looks like:

define('WPLANG', 'es_ES');

That’s it!

Reload your admin panel and it should now be translated to your own language (or your clients’).

While researching this stuff, I also found an amazing plugin to manually translate WordPress templates that use the __() and _e() l10n’s functions. If you don’t know what I’m talking about check this out http://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers. I’ll be writing a post about that soon, so stay close if this is something you’re interested in!

WordPress Custom Post Type Free Icon Collection

Jorge Pedret — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:48:21 +0000

Randy Jensen’s icon collection for WordPress Custom Post Types, it really helps your backend look a lot more professional. Click on the link to download them and see how it works.

Thanks @thoronas & @mor10 for the link!

WordPress Code Highlight

Jorge Pedret — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:22:28 +0000

While I was writing the last post, I was trying to find a nice code highlighter with this requirements:

Keep Indentation: I want to code to look nice, but if it’s not indented correctly as I submit it, then it’s garbage
Support Different Languages: I’m going to be writing post about Javascript, PHP, XHTML and I need all these languages/markups to be highlighted
Line number/Plain code view: You should be able to switch between plain code view and line number. I couldn’t find specifically what I was looking for but this one had a different approach to solve this problem.
W3C Compliant: The code produced has to be W3C Compliant.

After like 1 hour of research and testing, I found SyntaxHighlighter Evolved! here is the plugin’s website: http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/syntaxhighlighter/.

To install it you can go to your WordPress Admin panel and look for SyntaxHighlighter Evolved and install it.

To use it:[language]…code…[/language]
Example:

It’s pretty straight forward, for better details on how to use it, I went to my WordPress Admin Back-end > Plugins > Installed, then I looked for SyntaxHighlighter Evolved and clicked on Settings, at the bottom of this page you’ll see the details of what parameters you can pass to change the functionality.

Do you know another code highlighter that works better than this one?