Introduction Hello, as you may have noticed, I’m Sebastián Méndez, a Computer Systems Engineering student at Fidélitas University in Costa Rica. I’m happy to share my final report for the WPCredits course. This report summarizes my contributions to the Polyglots team and my experience working on my first open-source projects. Teams and Projects I Contributed…

What I learned When I started this project, I thought contributing to open source meant writing code. The Polyglots experience showed me that contributions can take many forms, and that language is infrastructure. Every string I translated is a small contribution I made; these strings are part of the interface that real users in Costa…

The result After several translations on translate.wordpress.org, my contribution to the Astra theme is complete. All submitted strings are now visible on my public profile and are attributed to my username, smendez09. My Contribution I translated several sections of the Astra theme, including header settings, customizer options, dashboard labels, and feature descriptions. Each string went…

Back to the queue After working with translations for a while and overcoming the challenge of variables and HTML, I returned to translating Astra with a clearer understanding of the process. This time, I made quick and confident progress, applying what I had learned previously. Adjusting the approach One adjustment I made was to focus…

The challenge My main challenge was discovering that not all text strings are plain text. While working with the strings in the Astra theme, I encountered one that gave me trouble, or rather, made me rack my brain trying to figure out if I was doing it right or wrong, for example, the “%s”. %s…

Continuing the work After completing my first few lines of translation, I felt more comfortable and continued working. This time, I focused on a different section of the Astra theme. What I translated Some of the strings in this batch were more user-oriented, such as headings or status confirmations, where I had to carefully consider…

The first real step After setting up my account, it was time to make my first contribution, as required by the course I’m taking. So I opened the Astra theme project for es_CR, filtered it by “Untranslated,” and started suggesting translations one by one. First strings translated My first translated string was a simple, straightforward…

Accessing the translation platform With my WordPress.org account already set up, the next step was to access translate.wordpress.org and find the Astra theme strings for the es_CR locale. The direct URL is: translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-themes/astra/es-cr/default/ First contact with the strings Once inside, I filtered by “Untranslated” to see only the strings that still needed work. The Astra…

Why WPCredits? I’m Sebastián Méndez, a Computer Systems Engineering student at Fidélitas University in Costa Rica. I’m currently enrolled in the WPCredits program, and one of the program’s activities is making real-world contributions to the WordPress. Why Polyglots? Among the available contribution areas, I chose Polyglots because the impact is immediate and verifiable. Every string…