Title: Doesn’t load existing mo-files
Last modified: October 21, 2018

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# Doesn’t load existing mo-files

 *  Resolved [jahau1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahau1234/)
 * (@jahau1234)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-load-existing-mo-files/)
 * I’ve already downloaded and installed translations of woocommerce to wp-content/
   languages/plugins but it’s not being loaded. What could be the problem?

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 *  [George Botsev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/botzev/)
 * (@botzev)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-load-existing-mo-files/#post-10803374)
 * Hello
    There could be a number of issues. It is possible that the .mo files are
   not complete and to not have all the strings that you expect to have. It is also
   possible that the locale is different from the expected file name, and thus that
   you are not loading the proper files. Usually WordPress automatically downloads
   these .mo files, but if you have done that by hand, then make sure that the file
   looks like in example: woocommerce-es_ES.mo for Spanish.
 *  Thread Starter [jahau1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahau1234/)
 * (@jahau1234)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-load-existing-mo-files/#post-10807981)
 * Actually, in this case it was the theme (flatastic).
 *  [George Botsev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/botzev/)
 * (@botzev)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-load-existing-mo-files/#post-10809964)
 * >  Actually, in this case it was the theme (flatastic).
 * I assume that you fixed the problem then?
 * The .mo file for themes should go to a separate folder – /wp-content/languages/
   themes/
    and should be named by the theme domain name that is used – in example“
   twentyseventeen” for Twenty Seventeen and then suffixed by the language code-
   in example: twentyseventeen-es_ES.mo for Spanish
 *  Thread Starter [jahau1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahau1234/)
 * (@jahau1234)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-load-existing-mo-files/#post-10838775)
 * Yes, it’s solved now. The theme had WooCommerce template files included and had
   replaced all the ‘woocommerce’ constants with their own (don’t ask me why this
   was done). Now in child theme I took the ‘woocommerce’ constant in the template
   files back in use as suggested by the theme team and the translations are working
   now.
 * The logic introduced in the theme is not any more overwritten in the WooCommerce
   reg. loading of mo-files because it’s back to its own domain (where it should
   be). Theme had it’s own logic for overload_textdomain_mofile / load_textdomain_mofile.

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-load-existing-mo-files/#post-10838775)
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