feat(wordpress): full reconciliation of WP plugin .pot → wordpress namespace

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Summary

Closes the gap between the WordPress plugin's PHP-side translatable strings (languages/loyaltydog.pot) and this repo's wordpress namespace bookkeeping. Was 46 keys → now 616 keys across 8 locales.

Why now

The plugin's .pot was regenerated as part of loyaltydog-wordpress-ecommerce PR #128 (SWE-502, merged 2026-05-10), which also landed strings introduced by the v2.x security + feature sprint:

• SWE-447 (table-removal cleanup)
• SWE-448 / SWE-508 (dormant-endpoint deletion)
• SWE-453 (encrypt customer emails at rest, VULN-12)
• SWE-488 (activation-key wizard sub-tab)
• SWE-499 (Stripe → activation email pipeline strings on the plugin side)
• SWE-504 (Settings_Sync_Service admin notices)
• SWE-506 (encryption-key relocation, HIGH-2)
• SWE-507 (subscription-lapse admin notices + read-only mode)
• SWE-510 (customer "Download my loyalty data")
• SWE-511 (tier-change email toggles + opt-out)

None of those were tracked in wordpress.json until now.

What's in the diff

570 new keys under wordpress.*, grouped by source-file area:

admin.activation         admin.connection         admin.credentials
admin.dashboard          admin.diagnostics        admin.encryptionKeyNotice
admin.help               admin.menu               admin.notices
admin.program            admin.settings           admin.settingsSync
admin.subscriptionLapse  admin.systemInfo         admin.testConnection
admin.trialNotices       admin.widget             admin.wizard
compliance               earning                  emails
frontend.account         frontend.blocks          frontend.checkout
frontend.checkoutService frontend.customerExport  frontend.points
frontend.redeem          misc                     plugin
privacy                  program                  rateLimiter
webhooks.stripe

Note: frontend.elementor was a candidate namespace in my generator's source-file map but produced 0 new keys because every translatable string in class-elementor-widget.php was already covered by a value-equal entry under wordpress.admin.widget.* (e.g., "LoyaltyDog Widget"). The shipped namespace list is frontend.blocks only. (Resolves Greptile P2 on PR #59.)

Naming algorithm: first 4-6 words of each msgid → camelCase → numeric-suffix dedupe. Scoping: wordpress.<area>.<camelKey>. The keys are mechanically generated, not curated — translators can refine paths in a follow-up; the bookkeeping role is the priority.

Placeholder syntax (Greptile P1 fix in commit 460f64d)

The first commit copied PHP printf placeholders (%s, %d, %1$s) verbatim from the .pot. Pre-existing keys in this namespace consistently use i18next mustache syntax ({{var}}), so a JS consumer would have seen the literal token unexpanded. Converted to mustache in the follow-up commit:

Source (PHP)	Converted (mustache)
%1$s	{{first}} (positional → ordinal name)
%2$s	{{second}}
%s (single)	{{value}}
%s (multiple sequential)	{{value}}, {{value2}}, ...
%d	{{count}} (or {{count2}} for sequential)
%f	{{number}}

37 leaves converted per locale; zero printf-style placeholders remain. Doesn't affect the WP plugin runtime — the plugin reads its own .pot/.po/.mo files; the localization-platform record is bookkeeping only (per the WP/platform split memo).

Conflict checks

Check	Found	Resolution
Path collisions with existing wordpress.* (across common.json, errors.json, wordpress.json)	3	2 skipped as semantic dupes (%s ↔ {{date}}, case-only); 1 renamed with Wp suffix
Value overlaps with non-wordpress namespaces	52	Allowed per the established pattern — each integration namespace is self-contained for translators (e.g. wordpress.admin.widget.save = "Save" coexists with common.actions.save = "Save")

Locale coverage

All 8 hyphen-form locale dirs (en-US, en-GB, es-ES, es-MX, fr, it, pt-BR, pt-PT) seeded with English values (placeholders in mustache syntax). Crowdin will translate on the next sync. en-US is source of truth.

Test plan

• All 8 wordpress.json files parse as valid JSON.
• No path-level overwrite of existing keys (3 collisions handled explicitly).
• No new top-level keys outside wordpress.*.
• No printf placeholders remain (Greptile P1).
• Description matches the actual namespace list (Greptile P2 — frontend.elementor removed, frontend.blocks confirmed).
• Crowdin sync picks up the additions (verify on next scheduled run).

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Greptile Summary

This PR reconciles the WordPress plugin's .pot translatable strings into the wordpress namespace of the localization platform, growing the namespace from 46 to 616 keys across all 8 locale files. Previous review findings (printf-style placeholders, missing plural forms, stray top-level admin key, contradictory PHP version copy) have all been addressed in subsequent commits.

• 570 new keys added across admin.*, frontend.*, emails, privacy, misc, and plugin sub-namespaces, with PHP printf tokens (%s, %d, %1$s) converted to i18next mustache syntax ({{value}}, {{count}}, {{first}}).
• Non-English locales seeded with English values \u2014 Crowdin will supply translations on the next sync; existing translations are preserved.
• Residual single-brace tokens in misc.nameFree / misc.nameValueCurrency* and several admin.menu.* strings use PHP custom-template syntax ({name}, {value}, {currency}) which was not included in the printf \u2192 mustache conversion pass.

Confidence Score: 5/5

Safe to merge — all 8 locale files are valid JSON, no existing keys were overwritten, and the change is bookkeeping-only (the WP plugin reads its own .po/.mo files at runtime).

The change is additive JSON data with no runtime coupling to the JS application layer. All prior blocking findings have been fully resolved. Two residual concerns (unconverted single-brace tokens and missing namespaces in the PR description) are documentation-level rather than functional defects in a bookkeeping-only change.

No files require special attention for merge safety. The en-US/wordpress.json misc and admin.menu sections contain {name}-style tokens worth cleaning up in a follow-up if these keys are ever consumed by the JS i18n layer.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
packages/i18n/locales/en-US/wordpress.json	Source-of-truth locale: 570+ keys added across all wordpress.* sub-namespaces; prior-review issues resolved; residual single-brace {name}/{value} tokens in misc and admin.menu not converted to mustache; five PR-described namespaces absent from actual file.
packages/i18n/locales/en-GB/wordpress.json	Seeded with English source values identical to en-US; inherits all the same key-set. Carries same residual {name}-style tokens.
packages/i18n/locales/es-ES/wordpress.json	Previously translated keys retained in Spanish; 570 new keys seeded with English values awaiting Crowdin translation.
packages/i18n/locales/es-MX/wordpress.json	Existing translations preserved, new keys seeded with English values pending Crowdin sync.
packages/i18n/locales/fr/wordpress.json	French locale seeded with English for new keys; existing translations preserved; no structural issues.
packages/i18n/locales/it/wordpress.json	Italian locale seeded with English for new keys; existing translations preserved; no structural issues.
packages/i18n/locales/pt-BR/wordpress.json	Brazilian Portuguese locale seeded with English for new keys; no structural differences from other non-English locales.
packages/i18n/locales/pt-PT/wordpress.json	European Portuguese locale seeded with English for new keys; no structural differences from other non-English locales.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    POT["loyaltydog.pot\n(PHP plugin source)"]
    GEN["Key generator\n(camelCase + dedup)"]
    POT --> GEN
    GEN -->|"printf tokens\n%s → {{value}}\n%d → {{count}}"| CONVERT["Placeholder Conversion"]
    GEN -->|"single-brace tokens\n{name}, {value}\nnot converted"| WARN["⚠️ Residual {name} tokens"]
    CONVERT --> ENFILE["en-US/wordpress.json\n(source of truth, 616 keys)"]
    WARN --> ENFILE
    ENFILE -->|"seeded with EN values"| OTHER["7 non-EN locales"]
    OTHER -->|"next sync"| CROWDIN["Crowdin (translates non-EN)"]
    ENFILE -->|"bookkeeping only"| PLATFORM["Localization Platform"]

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Fix the following 2 code review issues. Work through them one at a time, proposing concise fixes.

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### Issue 1 of 2
packages/i18n/locales/en-US/wordpress.json:544-546
**Single-brace `{name}` placeholder tokens left unconverted**

The printf conversion work (`%s` → `{{value}}`, etc.) did not cover the PHP custom-template tokens in `misc.nameFree`, `misc.nameValueCurrency`, and `misc.nameValueCurrency2`, which use `{name}`, `{value}`, and `{currency}` with single braces. Several `admin.menu.*` strings carry the same pattern (`{friendlyNameToBeAdded}`, `{friendlyName}`, `{name}`, `{value}`, `{currency}` at lines ~339–345). i18next's default interpolation uses `{{var}}` delimiters, so any JS consumer calling `t('wordpress.misc.nameFree', { name: '...' })` will receive the literal token `{name} (FREE)` unexpanded. The previous printf P1 was addressed, but this second class of non-mustache tokens was not included in the conversion table.

### Issue 2 of 2
packages/i18n/locales/en-US/wordpress.json:1-5
**PR description lists five namespaces absent from all locale files**

The "What's in the diff" section of the PR description explicitly names `compliance`, `earning`, `rateLimiter`, `webhooks.stripe`, and a top-level `wordpress.program` namespace as part of the 570 new keys. None of these namespaces exist in any of the 8 locale files — confirmed by grepping the final `en-US/wordpress.json`. Unlike `frontend.elementor`, which the description explicitly notes produced 0 new keys, these five are listed without caveat. A future reconciliation pass or automated key-coverage report will flag a gap between the PR's stated scope and the actual files.

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[haim-barad]

Greptile review addressed in 460f64d + PR description update.

P1 — Printf-style tokens won't interpolate in JS i18n layer
Converted all 37 placeholders per locale (×8 = 296 leaves total) from PHP printf to i18next mustache:

• Positional (%1$s, %2$s, ...) → ordinal names ({{first}}, {{second}})
• Sequential (%s, %d) → semantic names ({{value}}/{{value2}} for strings, {{count}} for ints, {{number}} for floats)
• Verified zero printf-style placeholders remain across all 8 locales.

This doesn't affect the WP plugin runtime — the plugin reads its own .pot/.po/.mo files, and the localization-platform record is bookkeeping-only (per the WP/platform split memo). The conversion makes the namespace internally consistent and unblocks future JS consumers.

P2 — frontend.blocks vs frontend.elementor mismatch
Description was wrong, code was right. frontend.elementor was a candidate namespace in my source-file map, but class-elementor-widget.php's only translatable string ("LoyaltyDog Widget") is already covered by wordpress.admin.widget.title, so the value-equal-skip filter dropped it — zero keys produced for that namespace. Updated the PR description to remove frontend.elementor from the namespace list and added a note explaining why.

[haim-barad]

Both P1 findings addressed in dc68286.

P1 #1 — Missing plural forms for trial countdown
The WP plugin's .pot actually uses _n() and emits both msgid + msgid_plural for these two strings; my generator only captured the singular msgid. Added the i18next-style _one / _other siblings:

trialNotices.trialDayRemaining_one   = "Trial: {{count}} day remaining"
trialNotices.trialDayRemaining_other = "Trial: {{count}} days remaining"
trialNotices.yourLoyaltydogTrialEndsInDay_one   = "Your LoyaltyDog trial ends in {{count}} day."
trialNotices.yourLoyaltydogTrialEndsInDay_other = "Your LoyaltyDog trial ends in {{count}} days."

grep confirms the .pot only has 2 plural pairs — exactly the two you flagged. Applied across all 8 locale files.

P1 #2 — Contradictory PHP version requirement
The platform record faithfully reproduced an actual contradiction in the WP plugin source: class-diagnostic-service.php said 7.4+ while loyaltydog.php said 8.0 or newer, and the real floor (per readme.txt + plugin header) is PHP 8.2.

Fixed at the source in loyaltydog/loyaltydog-wordpress-ecommerce#129 (and .pot regenerated). Mirrored on this branch so the platform record matches:

wordpress.admin.diagnostics.checkPhpVersionRequires82 = "Check PHP version (requires 8.2+)"
wordpress.plugin.loyaltydogRequiresPhp82OrNewer       = "LoyaltyDog requires PHP 8.2 or newer."

Old keys (...74, ...Php80Or) removed — the version was baked into the mechanically-generated camelCase, so stale-name retention would just be misleading. Crowdin picks up new keys on next sync.

Branch HEAD: dc68286.

[haim-barad]

P1 fixed in 2a3e407.

Stray top-level admin key removed
The pluralization commit (dc68286) had a dead first-walk in the migration script that did data.setdefault('admin', {}).setdefault('trialNotices', {}) before being superseded by the correct walk from data['wordpress']. The first walk left empty {trialNotices: {}} stubs at the root of every locale's wordpress.json — the actual pluralized content was correctly placed under wordpress.admin.trialNotices.* and is unaffected.

Verified pre-deletion that the stray block contained only empty sub-objects (no content loss). All 8 locale files now have {"wordpress": ...} as the sole top-level key, matching the test plan.