Correct location of language file

Hello,
I have the same problem.
I renamed theme-my-login.pot, filled in some translations,
but it doesn’t work.
I used the language “German”,
tried the positions
/wp-content/plugins/theme-my-login/languages/theme-my-login-de_DE.po
/wp-content/plugins/languages/theme-my-login/theme-my-login-de_DE.po
/wp-content/languages/theme-my-login/theme-my-login-de_DE.po
/wp-content/plugins/languages/theme-my-login-de_DE.po

The owner and file-rights are correct set, but the German language ist not shown – sorry, nothing works.
Can you please help us?
Thanks in advance,
Rudi

Sorry, I solved my problem.
For other users:
put the languagefiles into
wp-content/plugins/theme-my-login/languages
Important:
The plugin needs theme-my-login_de_DE.mo as well as theme-my-login_de_DE.po file in this directory, then the translation works.
In the moment I did only found the language-files from 2012, If there is a newser .mo-file available and/or some additional translations are needed I would do that for you!
Best regards,

Rudi

Hi Rudi,

Thanks for your sharing. .mo is read by machines and is in binary format while .po is for human edit use.

I find the language also works if I put under folder
/wp-content/languages/plugins

A bit confusing. Don’t know which folder is the best practise. I find lot of other plugins also put their own language there.

Best regards,

Kelvin.

If both folders
wp-content/languages/plugins
wp-content/plugins/theme-my-login/languages

are fine to place the translated file. I would suggest to place it under the
wp-content/plugins/theme-my-login/languages because we can easily zip the whole plugins and ready for another site use. In fact, translation work is not an easy task.

Just don’t know if I keep language under the
wp-content/plugins/theme-my-login/languages, will the upgrade remove it.

Here is a good article I found https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/30555/how-to-keep-plugin-translates-after-updates

I think we need the author’s final answer.

Best regards,

Kelvin.