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As you know, the latest version of MistyLook Theme for WordPress is fully internationalized. It means people can use it for their own sites in their language, without editing the theme files.

Right now, I have 3 people submitting their translations [.mo files] for the MistyLook theme.
1.German Translation File by Ulli.
2. Dutch Translation File Jozef Schildermans.
3. Russian Translation File by Elf.

You can download these files from the theme page, but how do you use them?

1. Set your language in WordPress Configuration.
To do this, you have to open wp-config.php file in your WordPress installation’s root folder.
Here you will be looking for a setting called wp_lang.
define ('WPLANG', '');
and to change the settings to German for example, change it to
define ('WPLANG', 'de_DE');

2. Download the respective language file from our theme page, and put that file [de_DE.mo for german for example] in the theme folder.

You think there are more steps? no. thats it. Go ahead and view your site.

Recently Francesco asked me How to have a stylish blockquote as in Magazines? in our support forums.
He actually provided a site where he saw a blockquote style that he liked and I looked into it.
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Quite often, I do get emails from people who wants a version of my theme, ported to their language. I always thought it is a cumbersome job to make the theme internationalized.
but recently my opinion got changed by a Danish guy.

Henrik from http://henrik.schack.dk/ recently contacted me asking me if it is OK to release the Danish version of MistyLook that he worked on.

I had a little chat with him over the email and this is what I learned.
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