Víctor Rodríguez – WordPress Credits

WordPress Credits Wrap-Up Report

During the WordPress Credits program, I had the opportunity to learn more about WordPress, open-source collaboration, and the different ways people can contribute to the WordPress community.

For my contribution project, I joined the Polyglots Team and focused on translating WooCommerce strings into Spanish for Costa Rica (es_CR) through GlotPress. My original goal was to suggest at least 100 translations. By the end of the project, my WordPress.org profile showed a total of 386 suggested strings, which allowed me to exceed my initial goal.

During the translation process, I learned that software translation is not simply changing words from one language to another. It requires understanding the context, following the official glossary, maintaining consistent terminology, using appropriate language for Costa Rican Spanish, and protecting technical elements such as placeholders, variables, and HTML tags.

I also learned how the GlotPress review process works. A translation suggestion may remain in the “Waiting” status until an editor reviews it. It may later be approved, rejected, or returned for changes. This helped me understand that open-source contribution is a collaborative process and that quality is more important than only completing a large number of strings.

Another important part of the program was connecting with the WordPress community through Slack. This gave me the opportunity to introduce myself, share my progress, and observe how contributors communicate and support each other in an international open-source community.

I also attended the online event “WordPress & AI: Agentic Engineering,” presented by Al-Amin Firdows. The session explained how developers can use artificial intelligence as a development partner while still reviewing the generated code, following WordPress Coding Standards, maintaining security, and making the final technical decisions.

One challenge during the event was understanding the speaker’s English accent. I had to stay very focused, especially during the technical explanations. Although this made the session more difficult, it also helped me practice listening to technical English and adapting to different accents in an international community.

Throughout the program, I created a personal WordPress website and used it to document my progress through several reflection posts. Writing these posts helped me review what I had accomplished, identify the challenges I experienced, and recognize how much I learned during the project.

Overall, the WordPress Credits program gave me practical experience with WordPress, GlotPress, open-source collaboration, translation workflows, online community participation, and technical communication. I am satisfied with the results because I exceeded my original contribution goal and gained a better understanding of how individual contributors support a global platform.

This experience showed me that WordPress is more than a tool for creating websites. It is a large community made up of developers, translators, designers, organizers, and users who contribute their knowledge and time. I would consider participating in WordPress projects again in the future.