# Localization
Bricks uses standard WordPress localization functions (opens new window) in its templates, such as _e() or esc_html_e(), to prevent hardcoded text strings.
The default text domain (opens new window) is named bricks.
Example:
<?php esc_html_e('My translatable text string', 'bricks') ?>
Gulp scans template files for all localization functions that use bricks as text domain, and updates the languages/template.pot file, that you can use as a base for your translations (read more about this subject on WordPress developer's handbook (opens new window)).
To take advantage of this, you should use bricks as text domain even for your own translatable strings.
Actual *.po and *.mo translation files should be placed inside languages/ folder as well, and can be generated with a tool like Poedit (opens new window).
TIP
Bricks' templates have English text strings by default, and already includes translations for the following languages:
- 🇨🇿 Czech
- 🇫🇷 French
- 🇩🇪 German
- 🇮🇹 Italian
- 🇱🇹 Lithuanian
- 🇪🇸 Spanish
Contributions to add translations for additional languages are kindly welcome, and could be a nice way to help improve this project. If you want to contribute you can open a pull request on the GitHub repository (opens new window).
WARNING
The localization task is included only in yarn build script, and not in yarn dev or yarn watch, to prevent updating template.pot too often during active development.
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