Title: Change theme language
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Change theme language

 *  Resolved [NSueiro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nsueiro/)
 * (@nsueiro)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-theme-language/)
 * Hi. I recently translated your theme to Spanish (es_AR) with Poedit and uploaded
   the zip file (including my translation) to my website.
 * However i can’t manage to change the language. I’ve been through every possible
   option menu and I still can’t find how to change it. I mean, the translation 
   file is there but i’m not sure on how to “activate” it.
 * Any help would be appreciated!
 * BTW: awesome theme!

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 *  Theme Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/)
 * (@bensibley)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-theme-language/#post-5721041)
 * Thanks for using Tracks!
 * There are a couple things to check. First, there is a dropdown option at the 
   bottom of the General Settings page ([screenshot](http://pics.competethemes.com/image/1I1m2l220q20)).
   Make sure this is set to the correct language.
 * If that is already set, check once more that the es_AR.po and es_AR.mo files 
   are in the Tracks languages folder on your server.
 * If none of this works, then the most likely issue is the filenames. Poedit has
   a lot more dialects than WordPress and the “es_AR” filenames may not be supported.
   I will have to look into this more, but I would try renaming them es_ES.po and
   es_ES.mo.
 *  Thread Starter [NSueiro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nsueiro/)
 * (@nsueiro)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-theme-language/#post-5721116)
 * Thanks! The problem had to do with the filenames. es_AR is not supported by WordPress.
   Changing the names to “es_ES” solved it.
 * Thanks a lot!
 *  Theme Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/)
 * (@bensibley)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-theme-language/#post-5721144)
 * Great, glad it’s working now 🙂

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-theme-language/#post-5721144)
 * Status: resolved