New languages not available in settings

  • Resolved mamayani

    (@mamayani)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    I have 4 sites installed, and started out with a Dutch wordpress installation, so naturally Dutch and English are possible in Settings -> General.

    However, I also installed French and German. I put the de_DE.mo, de_DE.po, fr_FR.mo and fr_FR.po in the languages folder of my theme (it already contained the dutch langauge files).
    The new languages do not appear under Settings -> General -> Site language.

    What I tried do do as well: My sites -> Network admin -> sites -> edit -> Settings -> change the WPLANG to fr_FR. When I save it, the setting wasn’t saved, the textfield for WPLANG is empty.

    I’m working iwth the twenty eleven theme and Dutch and English are functioning. Any ideas?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I believe you should put them in wp-content/languages/ actually

    Thread Starter mamayani

    (@mamayani)

    I think you are absolutely right ?? I moved the files and it works now.

    I am wondering though what the language files in themes/themename/languages are for. Just for theme specific phrases?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Yes, those are for themes ?? You’ll see them in some plugins too. When you switch languages, those theme and plugin language pages are dynamically called instead of English ??

    Thread Starter mamayani

    (@mamayani)

    Ok, thanks a lot. I am a happy person today and off I go to the next challenge (installation of the multisite language switcher)

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