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Currently i'm working on a simple WordPress Plugin.

I know within the Plugin i need to write my strings as __() or _e() and call load_plugin_textdomain() but i wonder how to localize the Plugin Description.

Example:
example

This is not the Plugin i'm working on. It's just an example to show what i mean.

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Plugin description is in comment block and I think it can't be localized – Mamaduka Aug 11 '11 at 11:59
I know it's a comment block thats why i ask :) Plugin URI and Author URI are parsed as link. It should be possible to translate. Makes sense imho... – gearsdigital Aug 11 '11 at 12:05

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Add two extra headers:

Text Domain: your-text-domain
Domain Path: /languages

Then use the plugin Codestyling Localization to create your language files. Usually it'll find the description.

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It's not exactly what i want if i understand you correctly. Localization is not the problem, i'm using Poedit. As i can read the Plugin only reads gettext components. But i'm not sure the Plugin-Description is a gettext component. – gearsdigital Aug 11 '11 at 13:12
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It is what you want – if you use the Codestyling plugin instead of Poedit. You could hack around Poedit’s restriction by inserting a dummy string with the content of your description somewhere. – toscho♦ Aug 11 '11 at 13:47
Ok, but every user who installed my plugin needs to install the Codestyling Localization Plugin too, isn't it? – gearsdigital Aug 11 '11 at 14:04
No, this plugin is needed to create the language files only. – toscho♦ Aug 11 '11 at 14:09
@toscho, +1+, this doesn't seems to be documented anywhere else... Cannot wait to try it :) – brasofilo Dec 18 '12 at 16:08

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