Title: Installing languages and getting started
Last modified: August 21, 2016

---

# Installing languages and getting started

 *  Resolved [icakeov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/itucakov/)
 * (@itucakov)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-languages-and-getting-started/)
 * Hi I have just installed the plugin and I’m guessing since the website is in 
   english, I need to install the english language first.
 * When I do that, I get a notice above: “The language was created, but the WordPress
   language file was not downloaded. Please install it manually.”
 * I am not able to find instructions on how to do this in the documentation and
   I didn’t find a support thread on this either.
 * I also didn’t see the message “There are posts, pages, categories or tags without
   language set. Do you want to set them all to default language” pop either.
 * And in the documentation it references this website to download the language 
   settings. Is this what I’m supposed to do manually? If yes, how do I actually
   access this folder, through ftp somehow?
    [http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/](http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/)
 * The website i’m installing on is this:
    [http://hushmagazine.ca/](http://hushmagazine.ca/)
 * Thanks for the help. I am just starting with it all so I hope I gave enough info
   about the problem.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/)

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

 *  [ReginaAlex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reginaalex/)
 * (@reginaalex)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-languages-and-getting-started/#post-4396015)
 * hi icakeov,
 * how did you fix it? I am facing the same problem
 *  Thread Starter [icakeov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/itucakov/)
 * (@itucakov)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-languages-and-getting-started/#post-4396016)
 * Hi Regina,
    I don’t quite remember if and how I solved this issue. Not sure why
   it is labeled as resolved. Sorry I couldn’t be of more help
 *  [ReginaAlex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reginaalex/)
 * (@reginaalex)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-languages-and-getting-started/#post-4396017)
 * Hi,
 * I figured it out somehow. If anybody stumbles over the same rock, this is what
   I did:
 * 1. I went to [http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev](http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev)
   and downloaded .mo and .po files. The page is not very intuitive, so what you
   need to do is find your language and click on it. You will be taken to another
   page. On this page you scroll all the way down and in the dropdown you select
   the .mo file and then hit export. This will download the mo file for you, then
   you select the .po and hit export again.
 * 2. Go to your download folder and rename the files acording to the ISO codes.
   This can be a nut too, but the format is **fr_FR** for french, **nb_NO** for 
   norwegian, **nl_BE** for flemish belgian etc etc. So the files are called nl_BE.
   po and nl_BE.mo
 * 3. These files you need to put in the \wp-content\languages\ folder on you wp
   installation.
 * Now you should be able to create posts in english and the other language you 
   just installed.
 * cheers,

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘Installing languages and getting started’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://ps.w.org/polylang/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3433336)
 * [Polylang](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/polylang/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/polylang/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/polylang/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/polylang/reviews/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [ReginaAlex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reginaalex/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-languages-and-getting-started/#post-4396017)
 * Status: resolved