Title: Translate WP theme doesn't work
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Translate WP theme doesn't work

 *  [reypm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reypm/)
 * (@reypm)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translate-wp-theme-doesnt-work/)
 * I have a theme and I want to translate some test from english to spanish. After
   edit the .po and .mo files I did the following:
 *  1. Rename files to `newsgrid-es_ES.mo` and `newsgrid-es_ES.po`
    2. Copied the
   files to directories `/wp-content/themes/newsgrid/languages` and `/wp-content/
   languages` (just in case) 3. Add this code to my functions.php file: `$lang =
   TEMPLATE_PATH . '/languages'; load_theme_textdomain('newsgrid', $lang)`
 * But text remains in english, what I did forget?

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