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The new profile pages need to be better prepared for i18n

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@yani- is already working on this.

Since Jun 4, 2026.

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[Site] Profiles i18n

When translating some new strings in the WordPress.org project, I stumbled upon some strings from the new efforts, co-ordinated by @yani- that are currently not well prepared for translation/localization.

Ref: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-breathe-2024/page-pledges.php

Code sample:

__( '%1$s &mdash; %2$s contributor. The <strong>%3$s</strong> filter is excluding you.', 'wporg-5ftf' ),
                    esc_html( $standing_user['name'] ),
                    empty( $standing_user['sponsored'] ) ? esc_html__( 'independent', 'wporg-5ftf' ) : esc_html__( 'sponsored', 'wporg-5ftf' ),
                    esc_html( $exclusion_label )
        ) );

Problem:
You should never build words/expressions/phrases/sentences by concatenating together smaller strings. Don't take for granted that all target languages have the same word and sentence structure as English.

Here are a couple of articles that cover most of the things that often make WordPress code unnecessary hard to translate:

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