Title: change language without plugin?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# change language without plugin?

 *  [Patrick Horemans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winock/)
 * (@winock)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-without-plugin/)
 * I have a wp multisite, one for dutch and one for german, i want to use two languages:
   Dutch and German. i want to place the two language files for each language .mo
   and .po in /wp-content/languages, but i can select just one in wp-config.
 * the other posibility is place them in the directory and select in settings*general
   the language, is this working for the frontend or for the backend only?, i just
   dont wanna use a plugin
 * please help

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 *  [xzoom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xzoom/)
 * (@xzoom)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-without-plugin/#post-4958390)
 * Download the .mo language file for each language you need, and create a new folder
   in your /wp-content directory called /languages. Upload the .mo files to the 
   languages folder you just created.
 * Moreover, upload the languages files for each language at your theme /wp-content/
   themes/twenty-twelve/languages (front-end translation)
 * For each site, you will have to go to settings and choose the language you want.

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