Title: Internationalizing a Plugin
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Internationalizing a Plugin

 *  [umchal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/umchal/)
 * (@umchal)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internationalizing-a-plugin/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m reading this article, [http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#Internationalizing_Your_Plugin](http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#Internationalizing_Your_Plugin),
   which is about translating plugins.
 * I don’t understand this part.
 *     ```
       load_plugin_textdomain('your-unique-name', false, basename( dirname( __FILE__ ) ) . '/languages' );
       ```
   
 * Does your-unique-name should be left as it is?
 * I guess I have to create language files but the article doesn’t seem to mention
   it but just load a language file or something with the above code.
 * Is there a step-by-step tutorial for translating a plugin?
 * Thanks for your info.

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