How do you install a .MO (language file) to use as part of a theme?

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I have my own theme that I’ve created and I need to support 3 languages. I started by adding the gettext functions to my template _e(“string”,”namespace”) etc, generated the po file with Poedit, and then created the .mo file for Spanish (es_ES)

My current setup which is not working >
Update

wp-config.php

define ('WPLANG', 'es_ES');

functions.php

define('TPL_LANGUAGES',TEMPLATEPATH.'/languages/');

function theme_init(){
    load_theme_textdomain( 'protoman', TPL_LANGUAGES);
}

add_action('init', 'theme_init');

languages mo file

themes/protoman/languages/es_ES.mo

index.php

    <ul>
      <li><a href="#"><?php _e('Home', 'protoman'); ?> </a></li>
      <li><a href="#"><?php _e('Account', 'protoman'); ?></a></li>
      <li><a href="#"><?php _e('Shop', 'protoman'); ?> </a></li>
      <li><a href="#"><?php _e('Corporate', 'protoman'); ?> </a></li>

STILL NO LUCK!

1 Answer
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You need to load_theme_textdomain() in your theme.

Place this in theme functions file:

function theme_init(){
    load_theme_textdomain('theme_name', get_template_directory() . '/languages');
}
add_action ('init', 'theme_init');

Then you put you language files in you theme /languages folder

you language files should be es_ES.mo and es_ES.po without the text domain at the front as the codex states File names such as: my_theme-sv_SE.mo will NOT work.

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