It took me a while to get back to work on Green Park after a little break and some vacations. So, this is only a small update to the translations for Green Park 2 Beta 5 but Beta 6 is on the way. Thanks to the following users, the theme now features native support for 12+1 language.

1. Chinese by wxzbb
2. English (default) by me
3. French by Julien
4. German by Andreas Jacob
5. Icelandic by Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
6. Italian by Saverio Tonno
7. Norwegian Bokmål by Bjørn-Arild Eriksen-Woll
8. Polish by Tosiek
9. Romanian by Cristian Boba
10. Russian (formal) by Dr. Dmitry Tarasov
11. Russian (informal) by Perllover
12. Spanish (castellano) by José Manuel Mao
13. Swedish by Jon Klarström

Many thanks for your contributions!

The new release (still Beta 5) is now available for download from the Green Park 2 page and should be available within a few hours from Wordpress.org.

The really simple solution we came up is resource-friendly while he can keep all of his links. Most probably the best thing of this simple usage of Wordpress functions: it’s entirely based on Wordpress’ template tags and there is no need for another plugin.

Wordpress Template Tags

Our weapon of choice is the wp_list_bookmarks template tag. It comes in handy if you use a new Wordpress theme as starting point, which already uses this tag. If not, now it’s the time to get rid of deprecated tags like get_links() or get_links_list().

To start, open the file where your link-list is located, most probably sidebar.php or footer.php. The default usage for wp_list_bookmarks is:

<?php wp_list_bookmarks(); ?>

Useful parameters: limit and orderby

Remember, we need to limit the output because of the new design while still giving link-love to all of our blog-friends. To achieve this goal, we applied two parameters to the tag:

limit and orderby.

The Function

These two parameters combined provide us with the limited set of randomized links we need. Seven randomized links fit into the available space, so here is the final template tag with two parameters applied:

<?php wp_list_bookmarks('limit=7&orderby=rand'); ?>

Jupp, it’s remarkably simple, but it works exactly as intended.

Late last month I released Green Park 2 Beta 4 with a small support for i18n — thanks to a lot of people with a lot more eyes than I have, I could fix around 15 smaller issues, two bugs and I got a lot of feedback regarding the i18n of the theme. Thanks to the community, we have support for the following languages:

1. Chinese by wxzbb
2. English (default) by me
3. French by Julien
4. German by Andreas Jacob
5. Polish by Tosiek
6. Spanish (castellano) by José Manuel Mao
7. Swedish by Jon Klarström

I’d love to see your language here as well Please check this posting: Green Park 2 – for translators

Green Park 2 Beta 5 is available for download

So it’s time to release Green Park 2 Beta 5 into the wild. The download is now available:

Download Green Park 2 Beta 5 | Demo (Changelog)

Like it? Buy me a cup of coffee

As you might know, coders love coffee — and I need a lot. If you like my free themes, feel free to send me 1$ for a coffee.

During the last five years I studied literature and linguistics, worked as webdesigner for an agency, gained a lot of good and some not so good experiences, travelled about 29 thousand miles, made the decision to resign from my job and started to work as freelance webdesigner which I didn’t regret and — I had one blog.

Five years ago I started this blog on August 19^th, 2004 as a personal blog with an entry about a lost laptop of my Korean friend Young. The focus shifted slowly and I covered mainly web 2.0 services. For about three years now the blog is about web development & webdesign with few exceptions.

Statistics of five funny years

• 2 domains (cordobo.de & cordobo.com)
• 3 webhosters
• 6 plugins (Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, Dean’s Permalinks Migration, Google XML Sitemaps, Twitter for Wordpress & WP Super Cache)
• 7 MySQL databases
• 12 wordpress themes (some are available for free)
• 24 wordpress updates/upgrades
• visitors from 151 countries, mostly from the USA, Germany, China, Brazil, India, Australia, Canada & the U.K.
• 332 articles (+11 drafts)
• 1,952 comments, trackbacks and pingbacks
• 4,540 backlinks (says Google)
• 131,132 spams
  highest: July 2008 – 7,927 spams
  lowest: November 2006 – 35 spams
• 1,260,113 visitors
• 4,019,760 served pages
• 3,753 GB of Traffic
• and infinite hours spent with CSS, HTML, Wordpress, Photoshop, Illustrator, Eclipse …

Today I celebrate my blogs fifth birthday with some new clothes – the actual theme used on Cordobo is called “Hardbound 2“. Its a clean theme optimized for fast rendering, features a lot of accessibility improvements with a strong focus on typography. Although there are still some minor issues, misalignments and unformatted areas here and there, I couldn’t resist any longer to change to the new theme.

Hope you liked it so far, for another term of five years.

Comments not related to Beta 5 pre will be removed from this post to keep the focus on translations.

If you want to help translate Green Park 2 (GP2) into your language, download the pre-release theme. The theme contains a folder with default.mo/default.po files (English) and example files de_DE.mo/de_DE.po (German).

Translations for Beta 5 should be zipped and mailed to the e-mail mentioned in the readme.txt file.

Ressources for Translators

Localizing Wordpress Themes (English) (German version)
Localizing WordPress Themes and Plugins (English)
Wordpress Codex: Translation Tools

Feedback

If you encounter any issues regarding the grammar or syntax in your language, please let me know.
Feedback, bug reports and workarounds in general are highly appreciated.

Download

Not recommended for production use
Green Park Beta 5 – i18n (Updated August 21^st, 2009)

Translations

These translations will be available for Beta 5:

1. Chinese by wxzbb
2. French by Julien
3. German by Andreas Jacob
4. Polish by Tosiek
5. Spanish (castellano) by José Manuel Mao
6. Swedish by Jon Klarström