Title: change language file
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# change language file

 *  Resolved [MarionFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marionfw/)
 * (@marionfw)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-file/)
 * For my new WordPress-site, using the Hueman-child, I downloaded the file en_US.
   po from Hueman (no such file for child), translated it and uploaded it again (
   FileZilla). I did not change the name of the file, so I suppose it should work(
   at least untill the next update of the theme). Still the English text is shown.
 * I synced the .htaccess file (although I have no clue if this has anything to 
   do with it, but just to make sure….)
 * Can anyone help? My site is not online yet.

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 *  [bdbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdbrown/)
 * (@bdbrown)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-file/#post-5644681)
 * Hi MarionFW. I haven’t actually done a translation but I believe WP uses the 
   compiled .mo file, not the editable .po text file. I found a pretty good explanation
   of the process in [this article](http://www.designwall.com/guide/how-to-translate-wordpress-theme/).
   Also, [the Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language)
   states that, for WP 4.0 and above, you can change the language designation in
   the Admin panel instead of wp-config. Or, you might take a look at the [Codestyling Localization](https://wordpress.org/plugins/codestyling-localization/)
   plugin. Hope that helps.
 *  Thread Starter [MarionFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marionfw/)
 * (@marionfw)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-file/#post-5644709)
 * Thanks, I now used Poedit, and it works.
 *  [ansgar55](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ansgar55/)
 * (@ansgar55)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-file/#post-5644946)
 * Hi Marion,
 * could you explain the workflow how you fixed it as:
 * I created a new .po file and saved also a new .mo file with Poedit.
 * On my local test drive it works but when I upload it do my web host under the
   child folder/languages it does not.
 *  Thread Starter [MarionFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marionfw/)
 * (@marionfw)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-file/#post-5644948)
 * Hi Ansgar,
 * this is what I did (I took note of it, because I’m not an experienced WordPress-
   user):
 * I downloaded the translation .po files in a zip-file from Github
    Then I edited
   using Poedit and saved it Automatically the .mo file is created. I uploaded throught
   ftp (filezilla) to a new folder “language” in the childtheme-folder
 * After that I followed the instructions on [http://demo.alxmedia.se/wp-content/themes/hueman/functions/documentation/documentation.html#customization](http://demo.alxmedia.se/wp-content/themes/hueman/functions/documentation/documentation.html#customization):
   you have to modify functions.php (on this page, search for text “The same method
   would be used to change language files folder. You would then copy over the whole
   alx_load() function, but only modify this one line in it:”
 * Hope this will help you out.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-file/#post-5644948)
 * Status: resolved