Here’s a quick thought that hit me while I was swearing over how unstable Poedit can be. The idea is to get more and better localization of themes in particular, but plugins too, by putting the localization work within WordPress admin. What we need is a plugin that in fact lets you do your localization when logged in. Ideally this plugin would then store any localization files in a directory so that others could get to them easy enough. Better yet, make it a part of the WordPress core and urge people to translate when translations are missing!
Why? It would definitely mean an increase in localizations being made by users, and hence further add to the international WordPress ecosystem. Not everyone wants their sites in English after all.
The lack of localization in themes and plugins is frustrating to a lot of us. We should do better.
Update! Interesting response, read on please. (more…)