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I have a Wordpress site that is in English. However, I need to have a couple of info pages on the site (like http://x.com/Info-Spanish, http://x.com/Info-German, etc) that are displayed in different languages. Not the entire site, just these 2-3 individual pages (so I can't mess with the WPLANG constant in the wp-config file).

All of these info pages are based on the exact same template, so I'd like to use PO/MO files and the built in localization (l10n) features of Wordpress to display the template in the appropriate language.

My code is something like this:

In functions.php:

 load_theme_textdomain( 'my_theme_name', get_template_directory().'/languages' );

Template for /Info-Spanish page:

function set_my_locale( $lang ) { return 'en_ES'; }
add_filter( 'locale', 'set_my_locale' );
add_filter( 'theme_locale', 'set_my_locale' );
require('info.php');

And the underlying info.php file (included above):

_e("Here is some important info which will be displayed in the correct language.");

I have used POedit to create the appropriate translation files in the languages/ folder. However, it's not working-- the info always shows in English. What am I doing wrong? Is Wordpress switching locales?

(BTW is there a way to get some debugging info from Wordpress for these steps? I'm not even 100% certain that it's able to find my PO/MO files in my languages/ folder, since there's no feedback on-screen for the internationalization stuff.)

Eric
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Found a solution... moved this line out of functions.php and put it at the top of my /Info-Spanish template code, and changed the theme name to 'default': 

load_theme_textdomain( 'default', get_template_directory().'/languages' );
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