Re: I want to speak Spotlish
Is the bp-custom.php file something that I download or create?
You create it yourself, and place it in “/wp-content/plugins”.
What is the ‘mysite’ language translation as defined in the tutorial?
That is a sample definition that I used for the tutorial — you can use whatever you want. Just make it a label that makes sense to you and your site.
Still wondering about the command to convert .po to .mo. How is that run and from where?
Running that command requires that your web server have basic GNU gettext support — if you don’t know if it’s supported, ask your host (it’s pretty standard on most Linux servers).
Running this command also requires command line access to your server via a program like PuTTY (Windows), Terminal.app (Mac), or from inside an FTP program and requires that your server support “msgfmt”. If you do not know how to run commands like this, or don’t have command line access to your server, please see Translating WordPress for other software options for converting language files (like Poedit).
@Craig dean
Also not understanding the conversion of the po. to the mo. using the run command. Is it a ftp app command. Just not sure.
See me answer above. I also updated the Codex page with these notes.
@Mstoppay
my bp-custom.php file wasn’t loading. Once I moved it out of the buddypress folder and into the plugins folder the language change worked… anyone know why that is?
Yes, as of BuddyPress 1.0 the “bp-custom.php” should be placed in the “plugins” folder instead of inside the BuddyPress directory, as noted by Andy in this thread. Thanks for the reminder — I updated the Codex page to note the correct location.
Note also that if you use the “Automatic upgrade” option to update your BuddyPress install, make sure to backup your language files first since they could be removed during the upgrade process (see this thread).
