Title: Problem adding a new language
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Problem adding a new language

 *  [sepe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sepe/)
 * (@sepe)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-a-new-language/)
 * Hello! I’m creating a Finnish localization of the SpeakUp! Email Petitions plugin.
   Here’s what I have done so far (I’m not experienced in this, so please point 
   out any errors):
 * In the languages subfolder, I made a copy of the French dk_speakup-fr_FR.po file,
   edited it into a Finnish version dk_speakup-fi_FI.po by changing all the French
   bits to Finnish (the header of the file also specifies the language as fi_FI),
   and then I created the corresponding dk_speakup-fi_FI.mo file with the appropriate
   gettext tool. These two files into the speakup-email-petitions/languages subfolder
   with identical read privileges as the others.
 * Now I just don’t know how to get WPML plugin to recognize the available Finnish
   translation of SpeakUp! plugin. My site has Finnish (default) and English languages
   supported, but I can’t seem to get the WPML language selection widget on my petition
   page, and the Speakup admin interface is also only in English even when I’m working
   with Finnish interface selected.
 * Is this maybe because at the time of installing SpeakUp!, there was no Finnish
   support in the installation package? Or does the availability of the plugin’s
   Finnish localisation need to be explicitly specified somewhere? Any ideas on 
   how to get the new Finnish translation/localisation working with WPML? Thanks
   in advance…
 * P.S. An amusing typo I noticed in the English “thank you” message – it says “
   thank you for SINGING our petition” 🙂
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/speakup-email-petitions/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/speakup-email-petitions/)

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 *  Thread Starter [sepe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sepe/)
 * (@sepe)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-a-new-language/#post-5050439)
 * P.P.S. I’d be happy to contribute the Finnish localisation to the installation
   package, of course 🙂

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