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Add Polylang-aware alt text generation - #50

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Add Polylang-aware alt text generation#50
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Summary

  • resolve the generated alt-text locale from Polylang when it is active
  • pass the current editor post as context so reused images follow the active translation
  • fall back through the attachment parent, attachment language, and WordPress locale
  • expose an optional ability argument and a locale filter for non-editor integrations
  • document the behavior and extension points

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  • PHP syntax checks
  • composer format:check
  • composer lint
  • composer analyse
  • locale-priority behavior checks for context post, parent, attachment, and WordPress fallback
  • pnpm run format:check
  • pnpm run lint
  • pnpm run build

Closes #11

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rafaucau self-requested a review August 21, 2026 18:48
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Thanks, but this PR looks like it was AI-generated, and something feels off about parts of the code. I've got mixed feelings about it - not sure if it's worth doing a detailed review here or if it'd be faster to just implement this myself.

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Thanks for the candid feedback. You are right: I used AI assistance here, and I should have caught that the implementation drifted from the contract you described in #11. You asked for frontend language detection plus a language parameter in the API; this PR instead introduced post-ID plumbing, backend inference, fallbacks, a filter, and an analyzer stub. That is over-scoped and creates review work without first agreeing on the design.

I do not want to spend your review time on that, so I am closing this PR. No detailed review is needed. Thanks again for calling it out plainly.

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Quick correction: this wasn't really scope drift from #11 - passing a context post ID and resolving the locale server-side is a fine design.

What I was reacting to was the linters being tricked into silence instead of the actual issues being fixed: the as unknown cast routed around a TS error instead of importing the typed store from @wordpress/editor, and the pll_get_post_language stub in .mago-stubs.php papered over Mago instead of using the existing wpsyntex/polylang-stubs Composer package. That makes tooling green while working against the DX it's supposed to protect.

I implemented this myself in #51, filter-based so Polylang support doesn't live inside the core generator.

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