I downloaded the files “po” and “mo” to translate BuddyPress and now I do not know how to proceed with the translation process

If anyone can help me be very grateful, thank you.

[@aces Participant 14 years ago]

What language?

I have just helped someone with Turkish at the end of the following topic: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/localization/forum/topic/turkish-language-pack-issue/

[@mercime Participant 14 years ago]

Kudos @aces

[@guga123 Member 14 years ago]

The language is portuguese

[@guga123 Member 14 years ago]

Where should I put the files?

[@aces Participant 14 years ago]

Where did you download the language files from?

There is no Portugal Portugese in https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/translations/ and the Brazilian Portugese link goes to non relevant advertising in Japanese….

If it doesn’t already exist you need to create a languages folder under wp-content – http://www.example.com/wp-content/languages/

[@guga123 Member 14 years ago]

I’ve downloaded https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/dev

I have already put the files in the folder …. http://www.example.com/wp-content/languages/ and nothing happens

[@aces Participant 14 years ago]

have you tried to put ( for Portugal )
`define (‘WPLANG’, ‘pt_PT’);`
or ( for Brazil )
`define (‘WPLANG’, ‘pt_BR’);`
in wp-config.php ?

Language codes: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language

[@guga123 Member 14 years ago]

yes… I tried

[@guga123 Member 14 years ago]

mo and po files came po written as follows:

buddyPress-dev-pt-br.mo

buddyPress-dev-pt-br.po

[@aces Participant 14 years ago]

Try renaming them to:

buddypress-pt_BR.mo
buddypress-pt_BR.po

They may be incomplete translations though…..

Edit: something isn’t right…..

[@guga123 Member 14 years ago]

I’ve done this and still does not translate.

[@aces Participant 14 years ago]

I think that there may be something wrong with the downloaded translations files…

Following the same procedure with the pt_PT files does change some of the language whearas the pt_BR file doesn’t seem to change anything….

I don’t know where the fault is. It seems that the place you downloaded from might only be the bp 1.2.* version. but it’s not clear….

[@guga123 Member 14 years ago]

Thank you Aces, try to use another language later to see if anything changes.

Then put the results

[@guga123 Member 14 years ago]

Thank you Ases, try to use another language later to see if anything changes.

Then put the results

[@aces Participant 14 years ago]

@Guga123

I just double checked and I had made an error when I renamed the language files.

I used:

buddypress-pt_BR.po
buddypress-pt_BR.mo

and:

`define (‘WPLANG’, ‘pt_BR’);`

then it worked for me ( although the actual buddypress translation is not complete ) …..

[@guga123 Member 14 years ago]

You used and it worked?

[@aces Participant 14 years ago]

Yes!

But it is still incomplete ….

[@guga123 Member 14 years ago]

Ok, I will test

[@aces Participant 14 years ago]

The buddypress admin menu is translated as are the main tabs, ‘Componentes’ page content is translated but ‘Configurações’ page content is still in english.

The parts that aren’t buddypress aren’t translated for me, as I don’t have the main wordpress and theme or plugin language files installed

[@guga123 Member 14 years ago]

Thank you, was translated, it was already very useful for me, thank you so much!

You’re a great guy!