Title: Changing Language
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Changing Language

 *  [johnny_bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny_bishop/)
 * (@johnny_bishop)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-language-1-2/)
 * Hey, well I installed sucesfully WordPress then I wanted to change language to
   Spanish. So I downloaded the es_ES.mo file and created the language folder in
   wp-includes and put it there, then modified the config.php file, everything according
   to the instructions with no problem at all BUT when I tried to access the admin
   page this appear on the top of the login console:
 * “Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output 
   started at /home/federaci/public_html/Protesis/wp-config.php:24) in /home/federaci/
   public_html/Protesis/wp-admin/admin.php on line 10
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started
   at /home/federaci/public_html/Protesis/wp-config.php:24) in /home/federaci/public_html/
   Protesis/wp-admin/admin.php on line 11
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started
   at /home/federaci/public_html/Protesis/wp-config.php:24) in /home/federaci/public_html/
   Protesis/wp-admin/admin.php on line 12
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started
   at /home/federaci/public_html/Protesis/wp-config.php:24) in /home/federaci/public_html/
   Protesis/wp-admin/admin.php on line 13″
 * I logged in and everything was still on english and that Warning lines continued
   on the top of the dashboard. Am i missing some step or did I screw it up somwhere?:
   p
 * Thanks in advance

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-language-1-2/#post-235453)
 * Easily sorted out
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_do_I_solve_the_Headers_already_sent_warning_problem.3F](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_do_I_solve_the_Headers_already_sent_warning_problem.3F)
 * Probably after the last ?>
 *  Thread Starter [johnny_bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny_bishop/)
 * (@johnny_bishop)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-language-1-2/#post-235472)
 * I fixed the header already sent problem, man, thanks. But the whole thing is 
   still on english. Do you know what the problem is?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-language-1-2/#post-235474)
 * I think the language file needs to be called ‘es.mo’ ?
 *  Thread Starter [johnny_bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny_bishop/)
 * (@johnny_bishop)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-language-1-2/#post-235478)
 * I already named the file es_ES.mo and es.mo and still doesn’t work. Is there 
   a step i’m missing or something?
 * I did this:
    Create the ‘Languages’ folder inside ‘Wp-includes’ Then upload the
   es_ES.mo file to ‘Languages’ And then edited the define(‘WPLANG’, ”); line by
   puttins this instead: define(‘WPLANG’, ‘pt_BR’);
 * I wonder what could go wrong…
 *  [dotar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dotar/)
 * (@dotar)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-language-1-2/#post-235702)
 * You have to define WPLANG with the same name as the .mo-file.
    If your .mo-file
   is called “es_ES.mo”, you have to define the WPLANG with “es_ES”.
 * define(‘WPLANG’, ‘es_ES’);
 *  [kalebeul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kalebeul/)
 * (@kalebeul)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-language-1-2/#post-235787)
 * I’m having exactly the same with 2.0.1. File is correctly named (es_ES.mo), in
   correct location (wp-includes/languages/), directory 755, wp-config edited correctly(‘
   WPLANG’, ‘es_ES’), but it stays in English. Same applies when tried with French
   language file.

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