Wordpress theme translations not being implemented into admin area

Question

I developed a wordpress theme which has a few cusotm post types in it. and i created the .po language file and it successfully imported the strings from php files.

The problem is that the translations related to custom post types aren't showing in admin area. I've tried bot __() and _x() functions, but no luck.

I appreciate if someone tell me what's the problem here.

Answer 1

Did you load the theme text domain? Example:

function so16309230_after_setup_theme(){
    load_theme_textdomain( 'my_theme', get_template_directory() . '/languages' );
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'so16309230_after_setup_theme' );

The text domain also needs to be declared in your style.css stylesheet header:

Text Domain: my_theme