I want “localizeable wordpress themes” !

It’s nice to see people create wordpress themes, but: I’d love to see those people make their themes localizeable!! O they are happy: I made a theme – but it is only in english – they did not read the manual for writing themes thorougly! That is, they did NOT make use of the gettext functions __( and _e(. If people would use localizeable themes they would have automatically reach a lot more people on the globe, and a lot more traffic and fame to their site…

Even at the WP themes site they don’t have no sort option for “internationalized theme“! I would like to see themes which already use the gettext functions __( and _e( ! Even if the theme would not have language file or a theme.pot file I could easily parse the files myself with for example poedit to create a .pot file which I then could start to translate into my own language.

(reference: Designing Themes for Public Release)

latest wordpress with latest opera

I don’t know if the wordpress developers don’t test there latest wordpress versions with the latest browsers – but opera always has some strange problems with the wordpress editor. For some days now I cannot use the visual editor anymore – either under xp or linux. I don’t know which version this actual WP2 is (would be nice to have a little info.php somewhere in the dashboard showing the WP version and may be TinyMCE version too by the way…), Opera is 9.23.

Is it a wordpress issue? or Opera issue? or TinyMCE issue?

If I deactivate the Use the visual rich editor when writing under my profile there’s no problem.

WP theme >> Subtle

I found a nice new theme for wordpress named Subtle, supporting widgets and localization. There’s already a turkish .po/.mo file made and I translated it into german.

line break problem

…and then the (unresolved) line break problem! Try
SHIFT + ENTER to get one LF – that may be easy… but to eliminate the unwanted line breaks! No chance!

sorting pages with help of Page Order field

It took me half an hour of searching with google under wordpress.org to find the solution for my problem: sorting pages setting Page Order field didn’t work as expected with widgets enabled under WP 2.1. I finally found it, … er,… one moment… here: baudesign’s comment! In widgets.php one has to change

wp_list_pages('title_li=');

to

wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=');