Translators, everything here is automated to a large degree. You only need to translate on the GlotPress site. .po files will be extracted from there. .mo, .json, and .l10n.php files will be generated automatically.
AspireUpdate Translations uses Language_Pack_Maker installed via composer to create a directory of zip archives of the translation files (.mo/.po/.json/.l10n.php) and a language-pack.json file containing data to pass to Git Updater or afragen/translations-updater.
The format of the generated JSON file is as follows.
[
{
"translations": [
{
"type": "(plugin|theme) from Git Updater",
"slug": "{$slug}",
"language": "en_US",
"version": "from Git Updater",
"updated": "PO-Revision-Date from .po file header",
"package": "/packages/git-updater-en_US.zip",
"autoupdate": "1"
}
]
}
]The update transient expects the $transient->translations in the following format.
$transient->translations( array(
0 => array(
'type' => 'plugin',
'slug' => 'akismet',
'language' => 'de_CH',
'version' => '3.1.11',
'updated' => '2016-05-12 18:04:38',
'package' => 'https://downloads.wordpress.org/translation/plugin/akismet/3.1.11/de_CH.zip',
'autoupdate' => 1,
),
) );