_x( string $text, string $context, string $domain = 'default' )
Retrieve translated string with gettext context.
Description #Description
Quite a few times, there will be collisions with similar translatable text found in more than two places, but with different translated context.
By including the context in the pot file, translators can translate the two strings differently.
Parameters #Parameters
- $text
-
(string) (Required) Text to translate.
- $context
-
(string) (Required) Context information for the translators.
- $domain
-
(string) (Optional) Text domain. Unique identifier for retrieving translated strings.
Default value: 'default'
Return #Return
(string) Translated context string without pipe.
Source #Source
File: wp-includes/l10n.php
function _x( $text, $context, $domain = 'default' ) {
return translate_with_gettext_context( $text, $context, $domain );
}
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Changelog #Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 2.8.0 | Introduced. |
Related #Related
Uses #Uses
| Uses | Description |
|---|---|
| wp-includes/l10n.php: translate_with_gettext_context() |
Retrieve the translation of $text in the context defined in $context. |
Used By #Used By
| Used By | Description |
|---|---|
| wp-admin/includes/credits.php: wp_credits_section_title() |
Display a the title for a given group of contributors. |
| wp-admin/includes/template.php: get_post_states() |
Function to retrieve an array of post states from a post. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-debug-data.php: WP_Debug_Data::debug_data() |
Static function for generating site debug data when required. |
| wp-includes/functions.php: wp_get_default_update_php_url() |
Gets the default URL to learn more about updating the PHP version the site is running on. |
| wp-admin/includes/post.php: taxonomy_meta_box_sanitize_cb_input() |
Sanitizes POST values from an input taxonomy metabox. |
| wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php: register_and_do_post_meta_boxes() |
Registers the default post meta boxes, and runs the |
| wp-admin/includes/privacy-tools.php: wp_privacy_generate_personal_data_export_file() |
Generate the personal data export file. |
| wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-media-gallery.php: WP_Widget_Media_Gallery::__construct() |
Constructor. |
| wp-includes/customize/class-wp-customize-nav-menu-locations-control.php: WP_Customize_Nav_Menu_Locations_Control::content_template() |
JS/Underscore template for the control UI. |
| wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-media-audio.php: WP_Widget_Media_Audio::__construct() |
Constructor. |
| wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-media-video.php: WP_Widget_Media_Video::__construct() |
Constructor. |
| wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-media.php: WP_Widget_Media::__construct() |
Constructor. |
| wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-media-image.php: WP_Widget_Media_Image::__construct() |
Constructor. |
| wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php: wp_dashboard_events_news() |
Renders the Events and News dashboard widget. |
| wp-includes/theme.php: get_theme_starter_content() |
Expand a theme’s starter content configuration using core-provided data. |
| wp-includes/class-wp-editor.php: _WP_Editors::get_translation() | |
| wp-admin/includes/update.php: wp_print_update_row_templates() |
Prints the JavaScript templates for update and deletion rows in list tables. |
| wp-includes/class-wp-customize-manager.php: WP_Customize_Manager::customize_pane_settings() |
Print JavaScript settings for parent window. |
| wp-includes/general-template.php: wp_get_document_title() |
Returns document title for the current page. |
| wp-includes/functions.php: wp_maybe_decline_date() |
Determines if the date should be declined. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-screen.php: WP_Screen::render_meta_boxes_preferences() |
Render the meta boxes preferences. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-users-list-table.php: WP_Users_List_Table::get_role_list() |
Returns an array of user roles for a given user object. |
| wp-includes/customize/class-wp-customize-nav-menu-setting.php: WP_Customize_Nav_Menu_Setting::sanitize() |
Sanitize an input. |
| wp-includes/class-wp-customize-nav-menus.php: WP_Customize_Nav_Menus::search_available_items_query() |
Performs post queries for available-item searching. |
| wp-includes/class-wp-customize-nav-menus.php: WP_Customize_Nav_Menus::enqueue_scripts() |
Enqueue scripts and styles for Customizer pane. |
| wp-includes/class-wp-customize-nav-menus.php: WP_Customize_Nav_Menus::customize_register() |
Add the customizer settings and controls. |
| wp-includes/class-wp-customize-nav-menus.php: WP_Customize_Nav_Menus::load_available_items_query() |
Performs the post_type and taxonomy queries for loading available menu items. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-posts-list-table.php: WP_Posts_List_Table::handle_row_actions() |
Generates and displays row action links. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-ms-themes-list-table.php: WP_MS_Themes_List_Table::column_name() |
Handles the name column output. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-comments-list-table.php: WP_Comments_List_Table::handle_row_actions() |
Generate and display row actions links. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-ms-sites-list-table.php: WP_MS_Sites_List_Table::handle_row_actions() |
Generates and displays row action links. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-ms-users-list-table.php: WP_MS_Users_List_Table::column_name() |
Handles the name column output. |
| wp-includes/customize/class-wp-customize-theme-control.php: WP_Customize_Theme_Control::content_template() |
Render a JS template for theme display. |
| wp-includes/post-template.php: the_meta() |
Display a list of post custom fields. |
| wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php: wp_install_maybe_enable_pretty_permalinks() |
Maybe enable pretty permalinks on installation. |
| wp-includes/general-template.php: get_the_archive_title() |
Retrieve the archive title based on the queried object. |
| wp-includes/link-template.php: get_the_posts_pagination() |
Retrieves a paginated navigation to next/previous set of posts, when applicable. |
| wp-includes/l10n.php: wp_dropdown_languages() |
Language selector. |
| wp-includes/comment-template.php: get_comments_number_text() |
Display the language string for the number of comments the current post has. |
| wp-login.php: login_footer() |
Outputs the footer for the login page. |
| wp-admin/includes/network.php: network_step1() |
Prints step 1 for Network installation process. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-ms-users-list-table.php: WP_MS_Users_List_Table::get_bulk_actions() | |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-ms-users-list-table.php: WP_MS_Users_List_Table::get_columns() | |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-plugins-list-table.php: WP_Plugins_List_Table::single_row() | |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-links-list-table.php: WP_Links_List_Table::get_columns() | |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-list-table.php: WP_List_Table::pagination() |
Display the pagination. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-theme-install-list-table.php: WP_Theme_Install_List_Table::install_theme_info() |
Prints the info for a theme (to be used in the theme installer modal). |
| wp-admin/includes/schema.php: populate_options() |
Create WordPress options and set the default values. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-theme-install-list-table.php: WP_Theme_Install_List_Table::prepare_items() | |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-theme-install-list-table.php: WP_Theme_Install_List_Table::single_row() |
Prints a theme from the WordPress.org API. |
| wp-admin/includes/plugin-install.php: install_plugin_information() |
Display plugin information in dialog box form. |
| wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php: wp_dashboard_recent_posts() |
Generates Publishing Soon and Recently Published sections. |
| wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php: wp_dashboard_recent_drafts() |
Show recent drafts of the user on the dashboard. |
| wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php: _wp_dashboard_recent_comments_row() |
Outputs a row for the Recent Comments widget. |
| wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php: wp_install_defaults() |
Creates the initial content for a newly-installed site. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-plugin-install-list-table.php: WP_Plugin_Install_List_Table::display_rows() | |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-plugin-install-list-table.php: WP_Plugin_Install_List_Table::prepare_items() | |
| wp-admin/includes/template.php: list_meta() |
Outputs a post’s public meta data in the Custom Fields meta box. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-ms-sites-list-table.php: WP_MS_Sites_List_Table::__construct() |
Constructor. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-ms-sites-list-table.php: WP_MS_Sites_List_Table::get_bulk_actions() | |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-ms-sites-list-table.php: WP_MS_Sites_List_Table::get_columns() | |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-users-list-table.php: WP_Users_List_Table::single_row() |
Generate HTML for a single row on the users.php admin panel. |
| wp-admin/includes/post.php: bulk_edit_posts() |
Process the post data for the bulk editing of posts. |
| wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php: wp_ajax_ajax_tag_search() |
Ajax handler for tag search. |
| wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php: wp_ajax_autocomplete_user() |
Ajax handler for user autocomplete. |
| wp-admin/includes/revision.php: wp_prepare_revisions_for_js() |
Prepare revisions for JavaScript. |
| wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php: post_submit_meta_box() |
Displays post submit form fields. |
| wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php: attachment_submit_meta_box() |
Display attachment submit form fields. |
| wp-admin/includes/meta-boxes.php: post_tags_meta_box() |
Display post tags form fields. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-media-list-table.php: WP_Media_List_Table::get_views() | |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-media-list-table.php: WP_Media_List_Table::get_columns() | |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-media-list-table.php: WP_Media_List_Table::_get_row_actions() | |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-post-comments-list-table.php: WP_Post_Comments_List_Table::get_column_info() | |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-comments-list-table.php: WP_Comments_List_Table::get_bulk_actions() | |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-comments-list-table.php: WP_Comments_List_Table::get_columns() | |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-terms-list-table.php: WP_Terms_List_Table::get_columns() | |
| wp-admin/includes/nav-menu.php: wp_nav_menu_item_post_type_meta_box() |
Displays a meta box for a post type menu item. |
| wp-admin/includes/class-wp-posts-list-table.php: WP_Posts_List_Table::get_columns() | |
| wp-admin/includes/class-custom-image-header.php: Custom_Image_Header::step_1() |
Display first step of custom header image page. |
| wp-includes/class-wp-customize-manager.php: WP_Customize_Manager::register_controls() |
Register some default controls. |
| wp-includes/l10n.php: _ex() |
Display translated string with gettext context. |
| wp-includes/formatting.php: capital_P_dangit() |
Forever eliminate “Wordpress” from the planet (or at least the little bit we can influence). |
| wp-includes/formatting.php: wp_trim_excerpt() |
Generates an excerpt from the content, if needed. |
| wp-includes/formatting.php: wp_trim_words() |
Trims text to a certain number of words. |
| wp-includes/formatting.php: wptexturize() |
Replaces common plain text characters into formatted entities |
| wp-includes/general-template.php: register_admin_color_schemes() |
Registers the default admin color schemes. |
| wp-includes/general-template.php: feed_links() |
Display the links to the general feeds. |
| wp-includes/general-template.php: feed_links_extra() |
Display the links to the extra feeds such as category feeds. |
| wp-includes/general-template.php: get_calendar() |
Display calendar with days that have posts as links. |
| wp-includes/general-template.php: get_search_form() |
Display search form. |
| wp-includes/class-wp-query.php: WP_Query::get_search_stopwords() |
Retrieve stopwords used when parsing search terms. |
| wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-recent-comments.php: WP_Widget_Recent_Comments::widget() |
Outputs the content for the current Recent Comments widget instance. |
| wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-search.php: WP_Widget_Search::__construct() |
Sets up a new Search widget instance. |
| wp-includes/class-wp-locale.php: WP_Locale::init() |
Sets up the translated strings and object properties. |
| wp-includes/taxonomy.php: create_initial_taxonomies() |
Creates the initial taxonomies. |
| wp-includes/taxonomy.php: get_taxonomy_labels() |
Builds an object with all taxonomy labels out of a taxonomy object. |
| wp-includes/admin-bar.php: wp_admin_bar_new_content_menu() |
Add “Add New” menu. |
| wp-includes/user.php: wp_insert_user() |
Insert a user into the database. |
| wp-includes/user.php: wp_dropdown_users() |
Create dropdown HTML content of users. |
| wp-includes/post-template.php: wp_post_revision_title() |
Retrieve formatted date timestamp of a revision (linked to that revisions’s page). |
| wp-includes/post-template.php: wp_post_revision_title_expanded() |
Retrieve formatted date timestamp of a revision (linked to that revisions’s page). |
| wp-includes/media.php: wp_enqueue_media() |
Enqueues all scripts, styles, settings, and templates necessary to use all media JS APIs. |
| wp-includes/media.php: wp_underscore_playlist_templates() |
Outputs the templates used by playlists. |
| wp-includes/media.php: wp_get_attachment_id3_keys() |
Returns useful keys to use to lookup data from an attachment’s stored metadata. |
| wp-includes/post.php: wp_set_post_terms() |
Set the terms for a post. |
| wp-includes/post.php: get_post_mime_types() |
Get default post mime types. |
| wp-includes/post.php: get_post_type_labels() |
Builds an object with all post type labels out of a post type object. |
| wp-includes/post.php: create_initial_post_types() |
Creates the initial post types when ‘init’ action is fired. |
| wp-includes/ms-functions.php: wpmu_signup_blog_notification() |
Send a confirmation request email to a user when they sign up for a new site. The new site will not become active until the confirmation link is clicked. |
| wp-includes/ms-functions.php: wpmu_signup_user_notification() |
Send a confirmation request email to a user when they sign up for a new user account (without signing up for a site at the same time). The user account will not become active until the confirmation link is clicked. |
| wp-includes/post-formats.php: get_post_format_strings() |
Returns an array of post format slugs to their translated and pretty display versions |
| wp-includes/comment-template.php: comment_form() |
Outputs a complete commenting form for use within a template. |
| wp-includes/comment-template.php: comment_type() |
Display the comment type of the current comment. |
| wp-includes/comment-template.php: get_comment_excerpt() |
Retrieves the excerpt of the given comment. |
| wp-includes/class-wp-customize-widgets.php: WP_Customize_Widgets::enqueue_scripts() |
Enqueues scripts and styles for Customizer panel and export data to JavaScript. |
| wp-includes/script-loader.php: wp_default_styles() |
Assign default styles to $styles object. |
| wp-includes/script-loader.php: wp_just_in_time_script_localization() |
Load localized data on print rather than initialization. |
| wp-includes/script-loader.php: wp_default_scripts() |
Register all WordPress scripts. |
| wp-includes/comment.php: get_comment_statuses() |
Retrieve all of the WordPress supported comment statuses. |
| wp-includes/class-wp-editor.php: _WP_Editors::editor() |
Outputs the HTML for a single instance of the editor. |
User Contributed Notes #User Contributed Notes
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Example
Since the string ‘Read’ on its own could have one of several different meanings in English, context is given so that translators know that they should be supplying a short term that means “Books I have read.”