Don’t use template pack. That’s a quick fix to get WP users without theming skills using BP. For the long run you are better using a child theme as a start. Upgrades are easy this way too.
The main problem is you can’t do find and replace all. It breaks the file. You have to hit next over and over and search manually. Very time consuming when you want to just change one word.
A reason I’m wanting an easier fix is for theming. Say you are developing a theme for sports teams. You would want the user of that theme to change groups to teams. They are not going to edit a po file. ‘Groups’ in my opinion is too generic anymore for social networks. The network is the ‘group’. Unless you are trying to do a facebook type site then ‘groups’ will work but for niche sites it’s too generic.
Ok @boonebgorges , I’m new to po files. Why are the strings in the language file not in order. Anything related to groups is all over the file. Could they be made in a way that anything with group be placed together?
Not sure if that’s what you were asking for but if you are creating a site for your self its better on a server to not use php to call this file and just hard code the direct link.
@wpsec That wont work because the word groups is spread over the site. Your suggestion would only change the nav title. You would want every last instance of the word group to be something else.
Language file should be used for translations not changing the actual wording on a site. po-edit does not make it easy. It takes me about 2-3 hours to change the title group to something else and I’ve had to do this 3 times now. You can’t simply do a find replace all you have to go through each and every one manually and this word is used a bunch of times. I tried find and replace all and then the site broke.
the other fix is to change the function in the BP functions file. You’d have to keep track of that change on upgrades to BP. I still think you can remove it via remove_action.
Yes, BP works with almost any theme. You’d have to do some adjustments though.
Most themes are
header
content
sidebar
footer
The content area on a regular WP theme has the loop that shows you blog posts. BP can fit inside the content of almost any theme. It’s like extra pages with a loop for BP stuff instead of blog posts.
So to make BP work on another theme you have to match the content divs. If the theme you want to use has a content div like this.
div id=”myContent” >
div id=”padding” >
Then on the BP page HTML you have to make the content divs match. The BP content structure might look like this.
div id=”content” >
div class=”padder” >
So you’d need to change it to match the the theme.
