Steven Zahm@ boerup
There’s another way of looking at it…
I design for plugin and play… the only setting you have to configure is the directory home page, nothing else. The other options on the settings admin page are completely optional. Honestly… there’s probably already too many options available. I’d love to take some away.
All the shortcode options… they are provided for users who wish to do “advanced” tweaking/configuring.
I could “lock” everything down and not provide the more advanced config options (ie, the dizzying number of shortcode options) like most, nearly all, other plugins do.
That said… I’ve found it easier user to use shortcode options for the strings (* template specific*) and Say What? for core plugin changes. I guess we run and use different plugins because I’ve only run into a handful which allow changing labels at all. So my experience is that is rare, not common.
Could you show me examples? I always keep an eye out for how other plugins solve problems.
The alternative… you would have to deal with a POT file, translating it with Poedit to create the PO file that can be compiled to a MO file which has to be named precisely and uploaded to the correct folder via FTP.
Which sounds easier to you as an end user?