Chronique d’un provincial à Paris lors du WordCamp à Montmartre non loin des Grands Boulevards

Setting time, on the fly, in current language of the current post is not very easy in Wordpress. After some research in core’s source and in php functions, several pathways are available here

This release 1.1.8 adds new features dedicated to multilingual theme’s creators and webmasters. Some new php functions, a folder to include functions shared by themes (not necessary to put functions in functions.php of the current theme); example with a shortcode to insert link inside content toward another post in a language. Since this release, xili-language is also tested with future wordpress 2.9-rare.

In this table, all the main template tags, functions and hooks are grouped.

Example with shortcode linkedpost

When studying FAQ of xili-language about some themes with localization (lots of theme’s creator forget to add in tags – localization or international, translation-ready,…), we discover that lot of improvements can be done during creation/design steps to easy transform them in a real multilingual theme.