Running "makepot" task keeps running forever

[jamesthemullet]

Firstly I potentially love this plugin - if I can get it to work! I am very new to grunt, so it could be something dumb on my part, however when I run grunt it keeps bringing up 'Running "makepot" task' repeatedly. It's been going on for an hour now.

In the Gruntfile, under initConfig, I have:

makepot: {
        target: {
            options: {
                cwd: 'web/wp-content/themes/mytheme/includes/store',
                domainPath: 'web/wp-content/themes/mytheme/languages',
                type: 'wp-theme',
            }
        }

The task is loaded:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-wp-i18n');

Then I register the task below:

grunt.registerTask('makepot', function() {
        grunt.task.run('makepot');
    })

The folder that I have selected only has one file in. Any ideas?

Thanks James

[bradyvercher]

The makepot task should only take a few seconds at most, so it sounds like something isn't quite right. The only thing I notice about your config is that the domainPath option should be relative to the working directory, so /languages should work for that.

I haven't run into any issues where the process would hang like that, so I'm not sure where to start. Are you certain that the PHP CLI is in your system path?

[BackpackerZen]

Bonjour together,

thanks for creating this plugin. Unfortunately I run into the same problem.

Here is my task:

makepot: {
  target: {
    options: {
      domainPath: '/languages',         // Where to save the POT file.
      exclude: [],                      // List of files or directories to ignore.
      include: ['*.php'],      // List of files or directories to include.
      potFilename: 'plugin-or-theme-slug.pot',         // Name of the POT file.
      potHeaders: {
          poedit: true,                 // Includes common Poedit headers.
          'x-poedit-keywordslist': true // Include a list of all possible gettext functions.
      },                                // Headers to add to the generated POT file.
      type: 'wp-theme',                 // Type of project (wp-plugin or wp-theme).
    }
  }
}

I have the PHP CLI installed and available on my cmd.

What am I missing? How can I make the plugin work?

Thank you! Max

[BackpackerZen]

Solved the problem. It's not the plugin, it's the user. Simple fix:

Call grunt makepot directly and don't create a task with a single command like this: grunt.registerTask('makepot', ['makepot']);.

[bradyvercher]

Good catch @BackpackerZen! That does appear to be the issue here. Thanks for following up!