[Krokkodriljo]

Okay, I just tried to publish a new topic here in the support forum. The topic itself were published but not the message.. so I’ll try again

After upgrading to BP 1.5.1 (via admin panel) I noticed that my language files (located in /bp-languages) had been deleted.

That’s not how it is supposed to work, right?

[Boone Gorges]

That *is* how it’s supposed to work. When you upgrade a WordPress plugin like BuddyPress, everything in the plugin folder is deleted and overwritten by the new content.

Language files should be stored in wp-content/languages (if you don’t have that directory, create it), where they will not be overwritten during upgrades.

[Krokkodriljo]

Thanks, Boone!

[agent314]

I did this thinking that it would work like a child theme, but nothing seems to change… so I am assuming this is just for “storage”… ?

wp-content/languages/buddypress.pot

I’ve made a couple of changes in the language file but don’t see them on the site. No caching used.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

You need to convert that .pot into a .mo file.

[Boone Gorges]

> You need to convert that .pot into a .mo file.

I think that you also need to change the file name so that it includes a text domain, and then specify that textdomain in your config file. Eg, buddypress-BBG.mo, and `define( ‘WPLANG’, ‘BBG’ );` (I think.)

[r-a-y]

Read this codex article to properly customize language files for BuddyPress:
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/