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Hi,

you are on the BuddyPress support.
bbpress questions should be asked on bbpress support.
And as you use Loco Translate plugin, and apparently have an issue with it, you have to ask on the LT plugin support.

To get more about chinese translation, help and much more, please read the Polyglots blog.

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. 😉

hi Henry @henrywright,

wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-en_GB.mo

this path is the one used by GlotPress’s official automated translation updates for BP (and any other plugin translation if it exist). Same behave for the languages/themes/ directory.

If you add a customized po/mo there, it will be overwritten at next update !

Since i18n new improvements in WP 4.6, the only way to keep the integrity of a custom translation actually, so far i know, is to use this plugin: wpt-custom-mo-file, who allows you to override and use your own translation files for any WordPress themes or plugins.

Just to let you know. 🙂

i checked the hebrew translation available on GlotPress. It seems to me it is correctly translated.

Copy/pasting RTL strings doesn’t work here… anyway here what i get (href is LTR here – but is ok in poEdit)
החשבון שלך הופעל בהצלחה! אתה עכשיו יכול <a href="%s">להתחבר</a> עם שם המשתמש והסיסמא שהכנסת כשנרשמת לאתר.

Hi!

1. presuming you dl the translation file (po & mo) ?
2. what have you renamed ? Normally there is nothing to rename for po/mo file names.
3. which code did you added to functions.php? Usually there is nothing to add there for translation.

See here for details: https://codex.buddypress.org/translations/

Note: Hebrew language file (buddypress_he_IL.mo) is uncomplete (72%), that’s probably why your register page is still in english.
There is also no PTE for hebrew which makes difficult for users to get the awaiting for validation strings.

The only solution for you is to download what is currently available in hebrew and to complete this translation yourself or to get in touch with this guy.

Perhaps you want to contribute to translation in your language? Read here if interested.

Strange ! Is WordPress in german ?
Dashboard > Settings > General > Site Language

BP translation file goes to wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-de_DE.mo

FYI, minutes vs. hours ! 🙂

When you search strings, open the .pot file provided with almost any theme and plugin for translation.
In this text format file, you will find (if exist) the string and ALSO the file and the line # where it is used.

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Hey @idichoo,

It’s awesome you’d like to help with BuddyPress translation! Happy to help you get started with translating on http://translate.wordpress.org. I’m Petya on wp Slack.

If you’d like to get started on your own, this is the best page: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/about/get-involved/first-steps/

BuddyPress could use a Project Translation Editor for Chinese as well, so if you’d like to become one, you can post a request on https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots and we’ll put you in touch with the Chinese General Translation Editors so they can add you as a project maintainer.

P.S. If you’d like to help the team with something quick, you can give us a hand with translating the WordPress 4.6 release video to Chinese! http://www.amara.org/en/videos/HD0Z715enyuZ/id/1429554/

Yep, you’re right, the forced translation comes only if you reload the page.

That’s the dark side of a dirt trick. 😉

Now, in a very real use case, this wouldn’t happen very often for not saying never. Most users will (hopefully for you) favorite activities, but i don’t believe that many will favorite and suddenly decide to unfavorite all their stuff and will restart immediatly to fav…

If you don’t agree with this, you still have the possibility to change text in the template or to use the po/mo file.

In witch language is your site ?

Don’t hack core files. (never !) Which language do you use ?

Where have you done this ?
I’ve took a look at the files and found out that the working ones are using __( "Foo %s", "buddypress" ) and the wrong ones are using _x( "Foo %s", "Blah blah blah", "buddypress" ).

Actually all BP strings are working. If you need custom translation, you have to do that in po/mo and to use preferably the original strings. For example, if you build a template and want to use the notification count on it, you copy the original string to your work. If you don’t do that, you nedd 2 po/mo ! One for BP and one for your custom work. Which is certainly not the best and easiest solution.

The notification count is defined in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-notifications/classes/class-bp-notification-component.php

The counter itself is inside a span and is defined separately.

/* translators: %s: Unread notification count for the current user */
_x( 'Notifications %s', 'Profile screen nav', 'buddypress' ),
sprintf(
	'<span class="%s">%s</span>',

The bla bla bla part you mention is a comment for translators who indicates him the context. This comment appears in the pot file like: Notification %s [Profile screen nav]

That’s BP’s default coding. You haven’t to modify this. Use it as is.

If you have difficulty to translate such a string, you have to check your theme or any custom function you added (by hand or another plugin).

The corresponding custom string should reflect the original one as gettext function wouldn’t translate a string which is not identic.

__( "Foo %s", "buddypress" ) and _x( "Foo %s", "Blah blah blah", "buddypress" ) are both working, and do technicaly the same thing (foo = something) which let you modify “foo” in both case, but as the original string is _x( "Foo %s", "Blah blah blah", "buddypress" ), you couldn’t replace it with __( "Foo %s", "buddypress" ). It is the translation prefix (_x or __) which is the important thing here.

Hope to be clear. And you’re right, unfortunately your changes will be overwriten at next BP update as you hacked core files.

(I’ve asked https://profiles.wordpress.org/petya to reach out to @idichoo to help get started with translations)

Hello,

I have the same problem here. I use WP 4.5.3 and the Theme Woffice from ThemeForest and BuddyPress 2.6.2. I translate all with the plugin Loco Translate but some translations are not working. There ist nothing to repair. What can I do? Any idea?

Best regards

Marco

Get in touch with the chinese translation team:

Translation Teams

You don’t need to download GlotPress, you can translate BP online. Just go to https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/stable/zh-cn/default and log-in.

And read the translators handbook to learn more about translating WordPress, plugins and themes.

If you prefer to read in chinese, see here: https://cn.wordpress.org/

Please don’t double post! You already asked for this and get an answer here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-translation-editors-contributors/#post-257318

The Notifications %s string looks like it is available:
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress/tags/2.6.1.1/buddypress.pot

If you’re using a custom translation from a previous version, you need to merge your language files together. Here’s a quick tutorial I found on Google:
http://www.marketpressthemes.com/blog/how-to-merge-two-po-files-using-poedit/

You might also benefit from a translation that is already available here:
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress