Title: Theme localization
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Theme localization

 *  [athos25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/athos25/)
 * (@athos25)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-localization-1/)
 * Hi all,
 * I’m trying to apply theme localization. I followed the steps below to generate
   a .pot file and a .mo file.
 * Copied my theme into poedit/bin/ directory and fired up PoEdit and made a New
   Catalog. In “Paths”, I have chosen ./ as base path and ..(double dot) as Paths.
   Next inside “Keywords”, I have deleted the available ones and added _e and __(
   two underscores).
 * This means the .po file will be created with ../ as base directory. Which is 
   fine, since I want to put the .mo file in themes/yourtheme/languages folder.
 * So I created that folder languages and copied the .mo file there. Then I modified
   my header adding the following code:
 * `
    <?php load_theme_textdomain('theme_name', get_template_directory() . '/languages');?
   >
 * From what I understand this is it, however, the .mo file is never loaded. The
   strings are not translated, so clearly I’m missing something here. Any help is
   appreciated.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-localization-1/)
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