wordpress-block-editor-po-json

Wordpress Gutenberg Block Editor PO file to JED1.X JSON

Generate Wordpress Gutenberg block editor compatible JED1.x JSON file from the PO files.

This library will come in handy, if you have multiple JS files in the block editor and the wp-cli ends up making multiple JSON files with md5 handles.

This npm package is a utility wrapper package built around the po2json npm package.

Usage instructions

Setup the Wordpress Gutenberg for internationalization

1. Create a languages folder in the root of your Gutenberg block.
2. Use wp-cli to generate the .pot and .po files or add in your .po files manually. Your .po files should be of the format {domain}-{locale}.po, where domain is the language domain used in the project. Example mydomain-fr_FR.po.
3. Do not generate the translation JSON files using wp-cli
4. Install this package using npm install --save wp-block-editor-po-to-json.
5. Create a new npm script in the package.json scripts section.

"scripts": {
    "build-translation-json": "block-editor-po2json -lf languages -wjh cg-blocks-js"
},

where -lf is the path to the language folder language where -wjh is the Wordpress javascript handle used for the blocks compiled js file during the wp_enqueue_script or wp_register_script. 6. Generate the translations using the command npm run build-translation-json

Author

Amal Ajith

Happy Coding!