Theme localization

Hi all,

I’m trying to apply theme localization. I followed the steps below to generate a .pot file and a .mo file.

Copied my theme into poedit/bin/ directory and fired up PoEdit and made a New Catalog. In “Paths”, I have chosen ./ as base path and ..(double dot) as Paths. Next inside “Keywords”, I have deleted the available ones and added _e and __(two underscores).

This means the .po file will be created with ../ as base directory. Which is fine, since I want to put the .mo file in themes/yourtheme/languages folder.

So I created that folder languages and copied the .mo file there. Then I modified my header adding the following code:


<?php load_theme_textdomain('theme_name', get_template_directory() . '/languages'); ?>


From what I understand this is it, however, the .mo file is never loaded. The strings are not translated, so clearly I’m missing something here. Any help is appreciated.