Get something like poedit http://www.poedit.net/ is a handy tool to ... edit po files. Simple and quick.
I don´t know WP. I found pivot looking for a blog software that supported flat files, i had no database support in that days.
A websoftware you can run on a database of pure text files is simple and complex both at the same time. It is portable flexible and intelligent. I like that.
If you look at the backend of pivotx this concentration on "what is needed" can be found again.
I run websites for friends, artists and handcraft people. They are not in the web business at all. If i show them the pivot backend, even those people can at least imagine to create an article by themselves. Thats a lot. (Try that with typo3
