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Add to Home Screen & Progressive Web App · support · 2025-10-28T15:32:00+00:00

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Knut Sparhell unresolved
Please don’t use % signs, except for sprintf placeholders, in translatable strings. They are hard to translate correctly since they indicate a placeholder, and translate.wordpress.org gives warnings. Especially %s (as in %site) or %d (as in %device). Tip: Use real printf placeholders with __( sprintf( 'My %s translatable string here', $arg ), 'domain' ) , or use str_replace with non printf placeholders, like {site_name} or #site_name . You may support old and new in a (long) transition period for en_US sites, since they are also stored in the settings. Hi Thanks a lot for the feedback! I just update the plugin and I replaced the placeholders from % to {} in translatable strings for better compatibility with WordPress translation system. Thanks again for your help!

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Knut Sparhell 2025-10-28T16:16:00+00:00

Tip: Use real printf placeholders with __( sprintf( 'My %s translatable string here', $arg ), 'domain' ) , or use str_replace with non printf placeholders, like {site_name} or #site_name . You may support old and new in a (long) transition period for en_US sites, since they are also stored in the settings.

Ziyad Bachalany 2025-10-31T00:37:00+00:00

Hi Thanks a lot for the feedback! I just update the plugin and I replaced the placeholders from % to {} in translatable strings for better compatibility with WordPress translation system. Thanks again for your help!