In other words, do I have to translate manually or make changes in .php to get them to work? The google translate plugin only mechanically works for some items on the screen. I’d be satisfied with a mechanical translation if it interacted with all the content. Thoughts?

Another problem is that I built the site in English but the majority of the users are Romanian speakers and a few Russian speakers. Is there a way for me to change my default language to Romanian without having to go back, reinstall the site in Romanian and start from scratch?

[@conectcahul Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

BTW, I found all this helpful info:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Multilingual_WordPress
Manage multilingual posts in one post per language (for example Gengo and WPML). Translations are then linked together, indicating that one page is the translation of another.
Store all languages alternatives for each post in the same post (for example qTranslate).
Manage translations on the generated page instead of using a post context (for example Transposh and Global Translator)
Plugins that direct you to external translation services (for example Google AJAX Translation)
Plugins that link together separate WordPress installations for each language by pinging back and forth.

I’ll try a few more options but sure would appreciate some suggestions.
Thanks

[@conectcahul Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

Transposh seems to be a really nice option for what we wanted!!

Now if I can only find a solution for why it won’t interact with the activity stream.

See: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/transposh-translation-filter-for-wordpress/forum/topic/trouble-with-activity-tab-ajax-reload-wont-work-in-other-languages/#post-76334