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@panosa1973 try to delete all the instance where you have saved language files and save as fresh at the following path
/wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-en_US.po
/wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-en_US.mo

Hi,

2 – define (‘WPLANG’, ‘en_US’); in wp-config
3 – Dashboard >> Settings >> General >> Site Language (buuddpress-en_US is not in the list)

2 is no more necessary since WP 4.0. Remove it.
3 is not intended to show in that list. General settings are for WordPress language, not for plugins.

WP’s language files use only the domain name (en_UK.mo, en_US.mo, be_BE.mo, etc)
Plugin language files like BuddyPress use their name in addition to the domain (buddypress-fr_FR.mo, buddypress-en_US.mo, and so on)

In your case, you can use WP default language setting (english) and a more specific lang for BP, en_US. It is an avantage for you, as there are only few difference beetwen US and GB, and you can even omit BP translation, as it is coded in english. The situation is much more annoying for all other non english languages!

https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language

Hi,

all you have to do is to use a custom translation for BuddyPress !
This can be done with help of this plugin.

Actually, WP uploads automatically all available translation for itself and any of his dependencies: themes and plugins(when exist) accordingly to the site language. Ie. brazilian portugue (pt_BR.mo)

In your case, while using the plugin, WP will remain in portuguese and as you will use buddypress-en_US.mo or buddypress_en_GB.mo as custom translation, anything related to BP will be in english.

Of course, this behave will always be used even AFTER an update of WP or BP and both updated to portuguese.

The avantage of the plugin is that you haven’t to struggle with complicated domain settings and hacks, because he does it for you by using a different path for any custom translation (in your case, BP’s english version). The file is stored in /uploads/wpt-custom-mo-file/buddypress-what_EVER.mo

You simply need to remember to download manually the english BP version.
Translation files can be downloaded here.

Hope to be clear. 😉

Is your custom language file in the correct folder ?
wp-content/languages/buddypress/buddypress-en_US.mo

Could also be your theme who contains some BP elements ?

Or you can also try what is indicated here:

Navigation API

Please, search and read a bit !
https://buddypress.org/support/search/en_US.mo/

– keep in mind that I’m not doing a full on translation, just this BuddyPress translation to change Friends to Connections.

you put only those strings into your custom po. If the concerned string is on a template file, you can also hardcode it there, and use a template overload to get in from your child-theme in that case. So you haven’t to struggle with poEdit. In this case also, you have to take care of the details given by @shanebp.

– does the language define statement in wp-config.php need to be set for this to work?

This is no more used since WP 4.0. You can remove it.

– buddypress-en_US.po and buddpress-en_US.mo files need to be in which folder?

/wp-content/languages/plugins/ (the po file is not used by gettext, it’s only a human readable work file – you can store it elsewhere if you want. You just have to remind where in that case 😉 ).

if you put it in /language/ (of course you can), you will see buddypress-en_US as a language setting. Which is of course not the site language.

But in any case, keep a copy of your work in a safe place outside of WP.

I just tested Duena and the BP translation is fine.

Recheck your po/mo files. Here what you must have:

duena – leave as is.
buddypress/bp-languages/buddypress.pot
wp-config – if you use english, as it’s default language you have nothing to do
// define(‘WP_LANG’, ” );
wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-en_US.mo

Now if you want to modify only some strings, make a copy of the pot file and put it in a folder outside of buddypress.

From this copy you remove anything you don’t want and keep only the 2 lines or 4 lines (if plural form) who belong to the string you want to change. You keep only the string you want to change.
Once done, save and rename it buddypress-en_US.po and open it with a text editor (not poEdit), as we’re going to modify the header.

msgid ""
msgstr ""
"PO-Revision-Date: 2014-09-12 00:05+0100\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n > 1;\n"
"X-Generator: Poedit 1.5.7\n"
"Project-Id-Version: BuddyPress 2.0.2\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: \n"
"Last-Translator: \n"
"Language-Team: \n"
"Language: en\n"
"X-Poedit-SourceCharset: UTF-8\n"
"X-Poedit-Basepath: .\n"
"X-Poedit-KeywordsList: __;_e;__ngettext:1,2;_n:1,2;__ngettext_noop:1,2;"
"_n_noop:1,2;_x:1,2c;_nx:4c,1,2;_nx_noop:4c,1,2;_ex:1,2c;esc_attr__;"
"esc_attr_e;esc_attr_x:1,2c;esc_html__;esc_html_e;esc_html_x:1,2c\n"
"X-Poedit-SearchPath-0: ..\n"

The rest of the file looks like this:

msgid "Friendships"
msgstr ""  <strong><- replacement goes here</strong>

#: bp-friends/bp-friends-template.php:588
msgid "%s friend"
msgid_plural "%s friends"
msgstr[0] ""
msgstr[1] ""

Save in text format utf8 without BOM. (important)

Now you can open this po file with poEdit, do your translation and save so that poEdit generate a mo file (see poEdit settings first to get this automatically each time you save a file).

Copy the mo file in the appropriate folder and, normally, you’re done.

References
https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress
https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/translating/basics/
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-disable-automatic-updates-in-wordpress/

The definitive guide to disabling auto updates in WordPress 3.7

@micasuh the .mo file is most likely being loaded from your theme’s functions.php file. Alternatively, it may be loaded from a plugin. Or, maybe even bp-custom.php (if you have one of those).

Look for something such as the following and try removing it to see if it resolves the issue:

if ( file_exists( WP_LANG_DIR . '/buddypress-en_US.mo' ) ) {
    load_textdomain( 'buddypress', WP_LANG_DIR . '/buddypress-en_US.mo' );
}

If it doesn’t resolve the problem then we know your translation file is OK.

If you still believe the issue is a virus in your database then you could try rolling back. Do you keep database backups? But, to be honest, I’m more inclined to think this is occurring as a result of some rogue theme or plugin code.

Hi ,
The best way to do so will be using the languages file.
you will find the BuddyPress languages file in budypress/bp-languages

Use poedit(or any other software) to translate it. Change the Group/Groups with the desired text and save the generated mo file as buddypress-yourLocal.mo e.g buddypress-en_US.mo for the US English.

If you want to change the actual names of the links, I did this by editing the language .pot file

But I’m not sure if that is the recommended method. I wanted to change My Blogs to My Sites:

For 1.2.9, translate the po file from buddypress/bp-languages directory.
Save the translation as buddypress-en_US.mo [if your local is en_US) else buddypress-your_Locals.mo in the bp-languages directory and you will be done.

Poedit is a great tool for translation.

@ericreynolds007 – After re-reading your post, I’ve found the root of your problem.

Rename buddypress-montclairvillagelive.mo to buddypress-en_US.mo.

Also make sure to upload buddypress-en_US.po as well.