README.md

Installation

To install, you need to have the WordPress i18n library on your computer. Check it out using SVN:

sudo svn co http://i18n.svn.wordpress.org/tools/trunk/ /usr/lib/wpi18n

You don't have to put the library in /usr/lib/wpi18n, but if you don't put it there, make sure to set the $WP_I18N_LIB environment variable in your .bashrc or .bash_profile file (with no trailing slash):

export WP_I18N_LIB="/path/to/i18n/lib"

Put makepot.sh anywhere in your path (I put mine in /usr/local/bin) and rename it to makepot. Make it executable by running

chmod +x makepot

Use

To use the script, simply go to the plugin's directory and run

makepot

It will use the project type wp-plugin by default, you may change this by specifying a different project type as an argument.

makepot wp-theme

You can also specify the text-domain as optional second argument

makepot wp-theme textdomain

And finally you may specify the plugin or theme directory as optional third argument

makepot wp-plugin textdomain path/to/plugin

The script will use the name of the plugin directory as the .pot file's name, unless a textdomain is given. In that case the file will be called textdomain.pot. It will look first for a directory called languages, then for lang and put the file in whichever it finds. If neither of those directories exists, it will put the .pot file in the base plugin directory.

License

GPLv2 or Later

Copyright (C) 2012 Avendi Media, Inc.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

makepot.sh

#!/bin/bash

if [ ! -d "$WP_I18N_LIB" ]; then
	WP_I18N_LIB="/usr/lib/wpi18n";
fi

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
	projectType="wp-plugin"
else
	projectType="$1"
fi

if [ -z "$2" ]; then
	textdomain=""
else
	textdomain=$2
fi

if [ -z "$3" ]; then
	projectDir=`pwd`
else
	projectDir="$3"
fi

pluginBasename=$(basename "$projectDir")

if [[ ! $textdomain ]]; then
	textdomain="$pluginBasename"
fi

if [ -d "$projectDir/languages" ]; then
	php "$WP_I18N_LIB/makepot.php" $projectType $projectDir "$projectDir/languages/$textdomain.pot"
elif [ -d "$projectDir/lang" ]; then
	php "$WP_I18N_LIB/makepot.php" $projectType $projectDir "$projectDir/lang/$textdomain.pot"
else
	php "$WP_I18N_LIB/makepot.php" $projectType $projectDir "$textdomain.pot"
fi

Great piece of code! Saved me lots of time. Thanks! :)

Thanks, Works for me :) 👍