_e( string $text, string $domain = ‘default’ )

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   Codex 9 years ago

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   Basic Example

   Display some translated text:

   <?php _e( 'Some text to translate and display.', 'textdomain' ); ?>
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   Luis Braschi 8 years ago

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   The WordPress documentation states that you should not use

   echo __( 'translate text', 'textdomain' );

   but use

   _e( 'translate text', 'textdomain' );

   instead.
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   McContax 7 years ago

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   _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);
   }

   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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   Hinaloe 9 years ago

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   This function is same as echo __ like:

   // their are same
   echo __( 'translate text', 'textdomain' );
   
   _e( 'translate text', 'textdomain' );
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   Jacob Schwartz 4 years ago

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   Important security note: _e() is not an escaping function. Since all output really needs to be escaped, consider using __() instead.

   For example, this is safe:
   echo esc_html( __( 'This is my translatable text' ) )

   But this might not be, because the output can get filtered and is not escaped close to where it is output:
   _e( 'This is my translatable text' )

   • For escaping the translatable text you can simply use esc_html_e instead of _e

     kontur.us 3 years ago
   • echo esc_html( __( ‘This is my translatable text’ ) ) does not display the text for me

     devalott 2 years ago
   • Or use `esc_html_e() ` to translate, escape, and echo.

     crstauf 2 years ago
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   Aurovrata Venet 1 year ago

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   Use escaping functions instead,

   esc_html_e( 'Some text', 'domain' );

   which is the equivalent of,

   echo esc_html( __( 'Some text', 'domain' ) );