Title: The _e() function
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# The _e() function

 *  [lintmagnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lintmagnet/)
 * (@lintmagnet)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-_e-function/)
 * What is the purpose of the _e() function? I see it around and it’s outputting
   text, I guess, but what is so special about it? I tried looking through the WordPress
   files but couldn’t find it.
 * Thanks.

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 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-_e-function/#post-132731)
 * It’s part of the language localization function. Anything inside that function
   will have a corresponding equivalent in all the other language files that are
   available for WordPress.
 *  Thread Starter [lintmagnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lintmagnet/)
 * (@lintmagnet)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-_e-function/#post-132738)
 * Does the reader’s selected language have any impact on this? Meaning, if someone
   in, say, China is reading my site, will things inside the _e() function be translated
   into Simplified Chinese? Or does this rely on the language selected in the WordPress
   options?
 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-_e-function/#post-132742)
 * No things are not translated on the fly. Your set your language to be used on
   the blog in `wp-config.php` and if there is a language file available, you’ll
   see all the WP goodies in that language.
 *  Thread Starter [lintmagnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lintmagnet/)
 * (@lintmagnet)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-_e-function/#post-132935)
 * Okay. So, if I were designing my own template, I could, technically, do without
   those function calls. Is including them part of the WordPress coding ethic?
 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-_e-function/#post-132954)
 * Including them would help someone who might wish to port your template over to
   their local language. If you don’t want to include them, then you don’t have 
   to. WordPress includes them in order to make the product useful to the widest
   audience possible.
 *  Thread Starter [lintmagnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lintmagnet/)
 * (@lintmagnet)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-_e-function/#post-133062)
 * Okay. Thanks Nuclear Moose.

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-_e-function/#post-133062)
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