Over the past months I have been building a virtual competition, for one of my clients, for the tournament 2014 in Brazil.

1. Full integration and signup to the game through Facebook
2. Multi-language setup
3. Choose your own team of players from the 32 competing countries, with countries only represented once in your team.
4. Update your team until the start of the tournament
5. During the tournament your team scores according to real data coming in from a sport result data provider. Team scores are calculated by a fixed rule set.
6. You have 3 substitutes that you can deploy during the tournament to optimize your team or replace players that have been eliminated
7. You play for a specific country or you can join or create a group to compete against each other with friends.
8. Team ranking is provided on country and group level.
9. Social sharing, invites and posting to Facebook

The project had its challenges and I plan to dive into some of those areas in the future, as soon as the tournament is over ;)

Cheers
Alex

Still looking for a nice way to integrate this Terminal plugin it into some of my current websites :)

jQueryTerminal

Debugging can be such a pain sometimes. Kint has saved my bacon more than once ;)

Kint

The Contact Form 7 for WordPress is a nice simple plugin to build contact forms fast. But when it comes to making it completely multilingual it lacks a bit.

I am currently creating a website with 13 different languages, that would mean to create the same contact form 13 times, not really practical :)

I am translating the form labels on the fly with some javascript magic, but for the messages I had to go a bit deeper.

1. Open wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/classes.php
2. Go to line 800 function message
3. Change this
   
   public function message( $status ) { $messages = $this->messages; $message = isset( $messages[$status] ) ? $messages[$status] : ''; $message = $this->replace_mail_tags( $message, true ); return apply_filters( 'wpcf7_display_message', $message, $status); }

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   public function message( $status ) { $messages = $this->messages; $message = isset( $messages[$status] ) ? $messages[$status] : '';   $message = $this->replace_mail_tags( $message, true );   return apply_filters( 'wpcf7_display_message', $message, $status); }

   
   to this
   
   public function message( $status ) { $messages = $this->messages; $message = isset( $messages[$status] ) ? $messages[$status] : ''; $message = $this->replace_mail_tags( $message, true ); return __(apply_filters( 'wpcf7_display_message', $message, $status ),'textdomain'); }

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   public function message( $status ) { $messages = $this->messages; $message = isset( $messages[$status] ) ? $messages[$status] : '';   $message = $this->replace_mail_tags( $message, true );   return __(apply_filters( 'wpcf7_display_message', $message, $status ),'textdomain'); }

   
   See how I wrapped the gettext function for the return, that does all the magic.
4. Next we have to make sure that the messages are being found by localization helpers like Codestyling Localization
5. In your theme functions.php add a translation for each of the Contact 7 Form messages
6. The first message in the Contact 7 Form admin says: Your message was sent successfully. Thanks.
   
   $contact_form_msgs = array( 'msg_1' => __('Your message was sent successfully. Thanks.','textdomain'), 'msg_2' => __('Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact the administrator by another method.','textdomain'), 'msg_3' => __('Validation errors occurred. Please confirm the fields and submit it again.','textdomain'), );

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   $contact_form_msgs = array( 'msg_1' => __('Your message was sent successfully. Thanks.','textdomain'), 'msg_2' => __('Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact the administrator by another method.','textdomain'), 'msg_3' => __('Validation errors occurred. Please confirm the fields and submit it again.','textdomain'), );

   
    
7. Do not change these messages in the Contact 7 Form admin anymore or the setup will break. These updates will have to be repeated with each plugin update, unless the author does something similar.
8. Happy translating.

Cheers
Alex

The GitHub repository from Saša Stamenković provides a nice list of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes.

Available formats are:

• Text
• JSON
• YAML
• XML
• HTML
  • Select
  • Flags
• CSV
• SQL
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQLite
  • SQL Server
• PHP

Github