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@mineo

there are always difference between two BuddyPress version…. If you use a custom translation, you must update your version at each BP update. This is how translating a plugin or a theme works and has nothing to do with php files or studying the support.

Version 2.0

Version 2.0.1

Version 2.0.3

Version 2.1

and so on…

For example, the difference between 2.0.1 and 2.1 is not the translation itself, but the translation comments who where added for better disambiguation.

So for example the word “activity’ in bp 2.01 is written in the po file like this:

#: bp-activity/bp-activity-loader.php:165
#: bp-activity/bp-activity-loader.php:276
msgid "Personal"
msgstr ""

and in BP 2.1, you see this:

#: bp-activity/bp-activity-loader.php:277
msgctxt "My Account Activity sub nav"
msgid "Personal"
msgstr ""

A comment was added who look like this: msgctxt "My Account Activity sub nav"

Because of this comment, even if the phrase is already translated, poEdit consider that there is a modification and mark this phrase as fuzzy. And because it is fuzzy, gettext doesn’t use it and the word stays in english.

In 2.1 “activity” remains 9 times alone, with 9 different disambiguation context, in difference to older versions where “activity” was used indifferently for any context.

So if you didn’t take care of such difference, you can think your word is translated. It is, but outside of the context.

msgctxt "Page title for the Activity directory."
msgid "Activity"

msgctxt "Activity items per page (screen options)"
msgid "Activity"

msgctxt "Admin Dashbord SWA page title"
msgid "Activity"

msgctxt "Admin Dashbord SWA menu"
msgid "Activity"

etc
This means of course that you have to translate “activity” 9 times, instead one time, but the avantage to write it differently, depending your language and the context where the word is used.

And again, modifying a po file with a text editor without compiling it into mo format is unuseable. You must use a compiler like poEdit, as gettext use .mo file to translate.

Po/pot files are only working files, not system files like mo is.

I don’t know if you did it yet, but there’s a couple of themes from sitemile that can accomplish that, specially this one http://onlinedemo.sitemile.com/?theme=project

I’ve used that with buddypress in a devsite and it worked perfectly!

The only problem is that they don’t have a free version for trial, so you’ll have to buy the theme in order to test.

Hope it helps!

@jessicana,

Regarding buddypress CSS, do I have to create a folder for Buddress like this one: your-child-theme/css/buddypress.css to style buddypress? or I can add this to the style.css in the child theme directory? what is the best practice?

Both are best practice. 😉
But if you’re working with a child-theme, you add a folder named buddypress or community to the child and copy only the template you want to modify from bp-legacy into this folder, by respecting the same path form as in bp-legacy.

CSS can be added directly to child style.css
JS modification goes to /your_child/buddypress/js/your_js.js

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

@halo-diehard

the answer is: NO, but can you provide some details about your install please ?
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

Configure BuddyPress

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

@caesarhills
Have you tried deactivating all plugins other than buddypress and activating a known theme that works well with BP like twenty fourteen? Sometimes plugins and themes can cause issues with the activation email. If that resolves the issue then you will know it was a faulty plugin or theme.

@jessicana

If I want to make updates to buddypress CSS for desktops and get rid of those updates (styles) on the ipad and phones to keep on responsiveness. What do you suggest I do?

You can use media queries to make different styles to different screen sizes.

As @djpaul mentioned earlier, the terminology is important because ‘comments’ can refer to 2 things:

• post comments
• activity comments.

Post comments are handled by WordPress and are stored in the wp_comments database table (see here). Activity comments are handled by BuddyPress and are stored in a custom table created by BP called bp_activity (see here).

The folders are:
1) buddypress
2) css
3) js
The file is buddypress-functions.php.

Sorry, you are right. The folders css and js are on same level as buddypress; not below. My mistake.

@1a-spielwiese
Inside bp-legacy we have three folders and one file:
The folders are:
1) buddypress
2) css
3) js
The file is buddypress-functions.php.

Buddypress folder contains (activity, blogs, forums, groups, members).

The path you specified doesn’t exist in my directory listing. When I follow your link I get (Failed to retrieve directory listing).

Thanks

If (buddypress.js) path is:

/MYDOMAINNAME.com/html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/js

and I want to edit this in my child theme, I have to create js folder inside my child theme. The path will be:

/MYDOMAINNAME.com/html/wp-content/themes/ChildThemeName/js

But in reality the path is:

wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/BUDDYPRESS/js/buddypress.js

Therefore the path for the copy must be:

wp-content/themes/ChildThemeName/BUDDYPRESS/js/buddypress.js

This is really useful! So let’s make this based on ftp url’s to confirm our understanding. If (buddypress.js) path is:
/MYDOMAINNAME.com/html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/js
and I want to edit this in my child theme, I have to create js folder inside my child theme. The path will be:
/MYDOMAINNAME.com/html/wp-content/themes/ChildThemeName/js
Inside the js folder in the child theme directory I will copy and past buddypress.js there and edit it at my convenience. The updates will not affect this file, do I ever have to worry about updating this?

Regarding buddypress CSS, do I have to create a folder for Buddress like this one: your-child-theme/css/buddypress.css to style buddypress? or I can add this to the style.css in the child theme directory? what is the best practice?

If I want to make updates to buddypress CSS for desktops and get rid of those updates (styles) on the ipad and phones to keep on responsiveness. What do you suggest I do?

Thanks

@mineo

Slovak BuddyPress lang community declares that the files are fully translated.

False ! According to the GlotPress stats, the buddypress translation is only 64% translated.

You have to finish the translation.
Download the po from glotpress
Update that file from the pot file who comes with BP 2.1

Use poEdit to do this.

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-2-1-bp-language/

Within your child theme, you can only use budypress template files – the files inside /bp-template/bp-legacy/.

In order to edit the template files you have to create a folder named buddypress inside your child theme folder. Every file you want to edit should be inside the same directory structure as in bp-legacy.

For example:
If you want to edit activity-loop.php then you place the file in:
your-child-theme/buddypress/activity/

Editing css and js:
your-child-theme/css/buddypress.css
your-child-theme/js/buddypress.js

Another thing that you should look at are hooks. Buddypress has many hooks that you can use inside your functions.php. I’ve never found any structured documentation about it. but you can learn a lot about it from tutorials online. Here is a blog with many tutorials
http://bp-tricks.com/

Sometimes you can’t find hooks to everything you want to do so what I do is documenting my hacks in the core so I can keep track of them when it is time to upgrade.

Do you use Template Pack ? You have to deactivate it if so, as that plugin is no more necessary.

@solosails

have you searched/asked first on PageLines forum ?

Sounds more like a theme issue, when reading such answer:
What you need to do is replace the 404 section with the Content/PostLoop section. This will display your Members profile.

Ouille !

@rubyji
Please don’t reply to threads going on 4 years old as it clutters the forum and bumps a thread that is ancient. You also replied on an almost 2 year old thread here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/export-users-and-xprofile-data/
I can respect you wanting to help and inform users that this can be accomplished with the plugin you linked too but one reply to the most recent thread is plenty enough.

This is causing me a massive issue too.

I am using dms2 mostly it works but there are many 404 page errors. Pagelines forum have taken this up as a bug, but it does seem that this error happens on many other themes, so perhaps a different approach needs to be taken from buddypress?

I hope this gets taken up! Thanks