Title: What is function _e()?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# What is function _e()?

 *  [drummonds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drummonds/)
 * (@drummonds)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-function-_e/)
 * Hi, everyone,
 * I’m trying to debug some errors I’ve found in WordPress and have a pretty elementary
   question: what is the _e() function that is used throughout link-manager.php,
   and possibly many other files? Where is it defined? Where is it documented?
 * Sorry if this is a silly PHP or other documented issue. “_e” is too generic to
   get any reasonable data back on Google or forum searches.
 * Thanks,
    Scott

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 *  [Michael Adams (mdawaffe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdawaffe/)
 * (@mdawaffe)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-function-_e/#post-142622)
 * _e() and __() are translation functions used in [localization](http://wiki.wordpress.org/?pagename=WordPressLocalization).
 * In 1.2.x, they’re defined in `wp-includes/wp-l10n.php` (but using `wp-includes/
   gettext.php`).

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