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It sounds like you’ve done a lot of the right things already. Here are a few additional steps you might try:

Check for Conflicting Plugins: Ensure no other plugins are overriding BuddyPress translations.
Clear Caches: Clear any caches that might be affecting the translation display.
Verify Translation File: Double-check that the .po file has the correct translation for “Name” and is properly saved.
Theme Conflict: Make sure your theme isn’t overriding the BuddyPress translations.
If the issue persists, you might want to reach out to the BuddyPress support community for more specific advice.

Hi @capexpe

I believe we’ve improved this part actually in 14.0, see https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/13936.

You shouldn’t put your custom language into /wp-content/languages/plugins because it will be replaced by the official translation after it has been updated by the Polyglots team.

Custom language files for BuddyPress should be in one of the locations we are looking for:
– /wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress
– /wp-content/languages/buddypress
– /wp-content/languages

More informations are available from this documentation page: https://github.com/buddypress/buddypress/blob/master/docs/user/advanced/texts.md

I’ve just tested renaming “Groupes” with “Expé” in custom fr_FR translation files I’ve included in the /wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress folder:
– /wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress/buddypress-fr_FR.po
– /wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress/buddypress-fr_FR.mo

And it’s behaving the way it should, see screenshot below:

@adjunkten I have no idea how Loco translate deals with translation files, but if you put their generated alternative language files at one of the three locations I listed above making sure they respect the WordPress default way of naming these, it should also fix your issue. Here’s the translated message for the “members-only” login page.

Hello BP-developers,

I also want to thank you for maintaining and developing Buddypress!
We have been using it for almost 10 years and never had issues when updating to a new version.

Passing to 14.0.0 was different. Thanks for the BP Classic that fixes many issues for us but as Lars we still cannot have the translation working yet.

We used to use the buddypress-fr_FR.mo file to change the by default translation of “groupe” (French word for group) in “Expé” for expédition on our site. But changing the buddypress-fr_FR and re-uploading to wp-content/languages/plugins as we were used to do at each update, does not seem to work.

Here is a link to our website with both public and registered users : where the blue button close to the title should be “Créer une Expé” instead of “Créer un groupe” and the other blue buttons next to each group “Rejoindre l’Expé” instead of “Rejoindre le groupe”.

Thanks for your help.

WP 6.6.1
BP 14.0.0
Theme : a minimally customed child version of Boss

@neighborhoodnurturers0 These strings will be translated with the help of Loco Translation plugin.
https://prnt.sc/DXGWPwAhVAIm

Thanks! 🙂

What I can see is that the group menu option that you picked is pointing some odd post_type=buddypress url, which is wrong, it should simply point to https://yoursite.com/groups (or your translation of the word groups.

You can either try editing that menu item, or create a custom link to that URL. (yoursite,com should be your own site address).

Is that a psychology site you have there?

You can change these using translation. Basically, create your own translation file for you country, which translates Friend into Contact, everywhere it appears.

@abdallahgh You can change or rename Group to Sections using translation; try the loco translate plugin. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

Hi @shemakeswebsites,

12.0.0 brings URL slugs customization, that’s a big improvement to have meaningful URLs for non English communities.

These communities are using different words for things like Activity, groups etc.. They can do so thanks to the l10n feature of WordPress. So a good way to reach your goal is to use a custom translation file. And I believe it’s the best way to do so, because the page title or labels won’t be enough to really reword all places where we use groups.

You can try to put your custom translation file into wp-content/languages/buddypress/buddypress-xx_XX.mo replacing the xx_XX with your locale maybe it’s even working with en_US.

The best approach to achieve this is to create a translation file for your native tongue, which will allow you to alter all the idioms.

@Venutius is correct however do note that the already posted activities would not change after changing the translation as activities are stored in the database.

The best way to do this is by creating a translation file for your home language, this way you can change all the standard phrases.