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_e( string $text, string $domain = 'default' )

Display translated text.

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Parameters Parameters

$text

(string) (Required) Text to translate.

$domain

(string) (Optional) Text domain. Unique identifier for retrieving translated strings.

Default value: 'default'

Source Source

File: wp-includes/l10n.php

function _e( $text, $domain = 'default' ) {
	echo translate( $text, $domain );
}

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Version	Description
1.2.0	Introduced.

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Contributed by Casper Braske — 1 year ago
The WordPress documentation states that you should not use
```
echo __( 'translate text', 'textdomain' );
```
but use
```
_e( 'translate text', 'textdomain' );
```
instead.
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Contributed by Codex — 2 years ago
Basic Example

Display some translated text:
```
<?php _e( 'Some text to translate and display.', 'textdomain' ); ?>
```
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Contributed by Hinaloe — 2 years ago
This function is same as echo __ like:
```
// their are same
echo __( 'translate text', 'textdomain' );

_e( 'translate text', 'textdomain' );
```
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Contributed by McContax — 8 months ago
```
_e( string $text, string $domain = 'default' )
```
In this function,the “$domain” is used to locate the multilingual file.(The file which is the translation of your theme.)
In wp-include there is a function related to this var
function load_theme_textdomain( $domain, $path = false ) { $locale = apply_filters( 'theme_locale', get_locale(), $domain ); if ( ! $path ) $path = get_template_directory(); // Load the textdomain from the Theme provided location, or theme directory first $mofile = "{$path}/{$locale}.mo"; if ( $loaded = load_textdomain($domain, $mofile) ) return $loaded; // Else, load textdomain from the Language directory $mofile = WP_LANG_DIR . "/themes/{$domain}-{$locale}.mo"; return load_textdomain($domain, $mofile); }
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You can see $domain is used in this file.Actually it’s used to locate the .mo file.So you must may sure it share the same name with your theme folder name
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