WordPress Credits Journal

My Posts

What is this section about?

These are the eight short entries required by the course. They are ordered from the initial setup to the completed Astra translation batch. Together they show what changed, what went wrong, and what I actually learned.

The WordPress site after launch

01

Building My WordPress Site

The setup looked simple until four different WordPress services and their login pages got involved.

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Audit of the Astra translation set

02

Choosing Polyglots and Astra

Why I picked a contribution with a public count, a locale, and a real reviewer.

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Astra translations waiting for review

03

My First 33 Translations

The first batch showed me why software strings cannot be translated like a normal paragraph.

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Public Polyglots review request

04

Halfway Check-In

The translation count was done; the important part was checking the set and reporting its status honestly.

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05

Starting the WPCredits Project

Before translating anything, I had to figure out which WordPress website did what.

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06

What Onboarding Actually Taught Me

WordPress.com and WordPress.org are not interchangeable, and submitted translations are not final translations.

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The Easy-to-Break Parts

Why placeholders, HTML, and missing context mattered more than the total count.

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Final Astra Translation Count

The result, the review request, and the difference between submitted and approved.

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