Localizing dates in WordPress themes
Our theme on the English side and the Japanese side are the same. And by that I mean, we only have one copy of the theme files that is used for both sides. For this to work, it has to be fully localised and independant. One thing that is quite different in the two languages is the formatting of dates. A date like Dec 13th 2009 might be formatted as 2009年12月13日 Chapp worked from a theme that had the date formats hard coded into the theme. As in: <?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?> If we left that in, the Japanese side’s dates wouldn’t be right, but if we took out the ‘F jS, Y’ part, it defaulted to outputting the time. As a workaround, we used: <?php the_date(); ?> which does fetch and use the right formatted date...
Thoughts on the GPL and WordPress themes
Why the GPL doesn’t matter WordCamp Kyoto 2009 was a great experience. One presentation by Digital Cube provoked a discussion about GPL amongst a small group of attendees, myself included. The major worry about releasing themes or plugins as GPL is that after all the work and effort at producing it, someone you sell it to is going to turn around and re-release it either at a discount or for free. Leaving you, the original developer, feeling cheated. The GPL definitely allows this. But it doesn’t much matter if you understand the concept of competitive advantage. Let me explain: GPL theme/code + something = what you are selling That something is called your competitive advantage. If your competitive advantage is not compelling enough, then you...
WordPress and MovableType
In recent years, I have constructed and customized many kind of web blog software and japanese blog service. This time, I share my feelings I had used “WordPress” and “MovableType” represent two of them all. I have used “MovableType” before about three years, but we switch it to “WordPress” in this our official site updating. I begin to use “WordPress” over the past a month, there are differences of “WordPress” and “MovableType” of the points I’ve noticed. [WordPress] + Open source project + No restructuring + Easily developing design themes + Post revision - Creating new blog difficulty - Need to having PHP skill for easily customizing [MovableType] + Creating new blog...