Use the wp-admin translations on the front end

Question

Currently I'm working on implementing the user profile form on the front end. Unfortunately the front end core translation file (wp-content/languages/lang_LANG.po) doesn't have any of the translated strings displayed on the user profile page. Those translated strings are located in wp-content/languages/admin-lang_LANG.po and since the filename starts with "admin", my best guess is that this only is loaded when visiting a wp-admin page (when is_admin() returns true).

Thus how do I load the text domain of wp-admin when you're not viewing a wp-admin page?

Answer 1

Best way around it would probably be to manually call load_textdomain() on the corresponding MO file in your theme's functions.php.