Title: plugin should use load_plugin_textdomain
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# plugin should use load_plugin_textdomain

 *  Resolved [privaloops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/privaloops/)
 * (@privaloops)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-should-use-load_plugin_textdomain/)
 * Hi,
 * I think the plugin should use load_plugin_textdomain and not load_textdomain 
   in order to work properly on multisite
 * Thank you
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-followers/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-followers/)

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 *  Plugin Author [r-a-y](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r-a-y/)
 * (@r-a-y)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-should-use-load_plugin_textdomain/#post-5055675)
 * Not sure I understand the problem. `load_textdomain()` should work fine. However,
   I will look at switching to `load_plugin_textdomain()` in the future.
 * Are you using a language switcher plugin or any other translation type of plugin
   on your site?
 *  Thread Starter [privaloops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/privaloops/)
 * (@privaloops)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-should-use-load_plugin_textdomain/#post-5055680)
 * Yes I’m using wpml. Anyway, a plugin should use this function to load localized
   data.
    I also suggest not to load additional languages by reading wp-content/
   languages folder. wp-content/languages/plugins/ would be better, because if some
   po/mo are in wp-content/languages, the native language selector for a site in
   wordpress will show strange languages (“bp”). I don’t want to bother you, your
   plugin is nice 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [r-a-y](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r-a-y/)
 * (@r-a-y)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-should-use-load_plugin_textdomain/#post-5055687)
 * I’ll switch to `load_plugin_textdomain()` for better compatibility with WPML 
   for v1.3.
 * However, for backward compatibility, I will use load_textdomain() first to look
   for a file in `wp-content/languages/`, if the file does not exist, I will fallback
   to `load_plugin_textdomain()`. Does that sound okay?
 * Thanks for posting!
 *  Thread Starter [privaloops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/privaloops/)
 * (@privaloops)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-should-use-load_plugin_textdomain/#post-5055696)
 * Sounds good ! My colleague will send you french translations asap. Bye
 *  [lauranshow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lauranshow/)
 * (@lauranshow)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-should-use-load_plugin_textdomain/#post-5055698)
 * Hi r-a-y, right, can you please send me a mail to send you the french BP follow
   po/mo please. You can send me your mail on our [form](http://universpodcast.com/contact-2/?lang=en).
   
   Thank you
 *  Plugin Author [r-a-y](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r-a-y/)
 * (@r-a-y)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-should-use-load_plugin_textdomain/#post-5055706)
 * privaloops – Try out the latest commit:
    [https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/commit/74ef39697e8c541d4eb31ccb7d8f7787e467735b](https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/commit/74ef39697e8c541d4eb31ccb7d8f7787e467735b)
 * Let me know if this works with WPML.
 * lauranshow – I left a message on your contact form.
 *  Plugin Author [r-a-y](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r-a-y/)
 * (@r-a-y)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-should-use-load_plugin_textdomain/#post-5055715)
 * lauranshow – I’ve added the French translation files to the bleeding version 
   of BP Follow:
    [https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/commit/5f6b73d9036bdb1f93702ab33567f510e603b03c](https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/commit/5f6b73d9036bdb1f93702ab33567f510e603b03c)
 * Thanks!

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