To translate you need few things first in place.
- Create a directory called languages inside wp-content .
- Now define your country and locale in wp-config.php file. For example as you wish to translate into italian. You should add these lines.
define (‘WPLANG’, ‘it_IT’); - Now as you have read on forums you need to put the .po file in languages directory
for example This file.
This should solve your problem.