Outdated as sample plugin

  • Hello, Dolly is meant to show how easy it is to create a plugin.

    But, to create a plugin for your own use may be even simpler.

    On the other hand: Much has changed in WordPress since this plugin was launched. Almost all new plugins that are submitted to the plugin directory of www.ads-software.com are now supposed to be correctly prepared for community translation. This plugin isn’t “Translation ready”, after all, it’s just a piece of lyrics (i.e. something that is hard to translate in itself, especially the way the code is written…)

    Nowadays, a big part of all WordPress installations are in other languages than en_US. If someone happens to activate this plugin in a language with different script (say, Russian), it looks strange. In a RTL environment (Arabic, for instance) it will just be awkward. We’re able to translate EVERYTHING ELSE that comes with a standard installation package but this piece of sample plugin.

    I think it’s time for a new sample plugin, a correctly i18n-prepared sample plugin. A sample plugin that new plugin developers actually may study to learn how to do things right.

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