Title: Localization Question about string function
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Localization Question about string function

 *  [macleodjb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macleodjb/)
 * (@macleodjb)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-question-about-string-function/)
 * in this function __($string, $domain)
 * What is the domain? If i am developing a plugin, what do i put in this value?
   Is it the name of the plugin, a theme name? If wordpress uses this field to determine
   where to search, I don’t understand what its asking for.
 * Thanks.

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 * Last reply from: [macleodjb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macleodjb/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-question-about-string-function/)
 * Status: not resolved

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