Theme Check expects _n() to have at most three parameters, but it has four

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  • Plugin Author Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    6 years, 11 months ago

    No, theme-check only looks at “string” parameters. It doesn’t see the variable $count parameter because of the particular way that check works.

    The _n() function has three parameters that must all be plain strings. If you’re getting this error message, you’re calling _n() incorrectly, somehow.

    Thread Starter Nikolay Yordanov

    (@nikolayyordanov)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    OK, so it turns out that this results in an error:

    _n( 'one', '%d', (int)$foo['bar'], 'textdomain' ) );

    But this doesn’t:

    $foobar = (int)$foo['bar'];
_n( 'one', '%d', $foobar, 'textdomain' ) );

    Is this the expected behaviour?

    Plugin Author Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    6 years, 11 months ago

    Right. Theme check is not perfect, and it’s not meant to be. The extra string in there (‘bar’) is throwing it off. It can’t read code like a person can, because it’s not that sophisticated.

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