Title: Language Settings, Plugins Missing mo Files
Last modified: January 18, 2017

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# Language Settings, Plugins Missing mo Files

 *  [adamx8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamx8/)
 * (@adamx8)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-settings-plugins-missing-mo-files/)
 * Just a quick question, and this is probably nothing but I am trying to understand
   the data being shown. Under Language Setting: en_US it shows that all of my plugins
   don’t have a .mo file. I get the use of this, but everything is in en_US so there
   won’t be a .mo file. Right now it gives me a “Not Found” for every plugin.
 * Does polling this use resources? Does this matter? Do I need to create a .mo 
   file to get this to be correct? Just curious…

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 *  Plugin Author [John Blackbourn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnbillion/)
 * (@johnbillion)
 * WordPress Core Developer
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-settings-plugins-missing-mo-files/#post-8669975)
 * You’re not the first person to mention this. The reason this functionality is
   in place is so it’s easy to spot missing language files when you’re working with
   languages other than English. It doesn’t make much sense when you’re using `en_US`
   though. I’ll have a think about simplifying the UI.
 * The only resource this uses is a `file_exists()` call for each MO file, which
   is exceptionally fast.
 *  Thread Starter [adamx8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamx8/)
 * (@adamx8)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-settings-plugins-missing-mo-files/#post-8671251)
 * Thanks for the explanation on this. I just wanted to ask the question in case
   I was missing something that needed to be done to correct an issue. Glad it was
   just a simple message.

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 * [mo file](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mo-file/)

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 * Last reply from: [adamx8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamx8/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-settings-plugins-missing-mo-files/#post-8671251)
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