Title: Question about developing internationalized theme
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Question about developing internationalized theme

 *  [geoken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoken/)
 * (@geoken)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-developing-internationalized-theme/)
 * I was planning on internationalizing a theme. I was a little confused about the
   final steps of creating the .pot, .po and .mo files. Most of the tutorials I 
   read describe the process for creating all three but when I look at twentythirteen(
   or twelve or eleven) the /languages directory only has the POT file.
 * When creating a theme for general distribution, would I just generate the .pot
   file with the .po and .mo left to the user who downloads and installs my theme?

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 * [i18n](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/i18n/)
 * [internationalization](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/internationalization/)
 * [language](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/language/)
 * [Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/themes/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-developing-internationalized-theme/)
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