Title: _e Function for Conent
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# _e Function for Conent

 *  [MountainTop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mountaintop/)
 * (@mountaintop)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_e-function-for-conent/)
 * I’m using Roots theme and WPML. I did some research on gettext, _e and text domains.
   Right now WPML is set up along with Roots to translate the title, description,
   and keywords.
 * The index.php file has the header/titles translated:
 *     ```
       <div class="page-header">
       <h1><?php _e('Latest Posts', 'roots');?></h1>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * However, how do I translate the content on my page? I’m guessing I need to edit
   loop-page.php and the_content(). I’m not exactly sure what to do at this point?

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 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_e-function-for-conent/#post-2684042)
 * There are translation plugins for content, and things like that… or you would
   write in the appropriate language in the first place.
 * _e and things like that are for translating parts of the theme/plugin. Static
   stuff.
 * You can’t translate dynamic content in the same fashion
 * the_content refers to a million different things. It’s dynamic, it changes in
   every post. So you aren’t going to have static translations sitting in a language
   file to translate every iterance of all content.
 * The functions you are pointing to aren’t magic… they don’t translate anything
   in an automatic fashion. They point to a language file that can sub out terms
   for a different term
 *  Thread Starter [MountainTop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mountaintop/)
 * (@mountaintop)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_e-function-for-conent/#post-2684045)
 * Thanks for explaining it to me.
 * I thought maybe WPML automatically translated everything, but as I read more 
   you can, like you said, only translate static content and everything else has
   to be manually translated or sent through the plugin to translators.
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_e-function-for-conent/#post-2684046)
 * You’ve got it!!

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 * [the_content](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/the_content/)
 * [_e](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/_e/)

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