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try the language file.. check the buddypress codex for translation

@lekins101 great stuff 🙂

Hi @pattiearnold

If you need help with translations, please feel free to open a new topic with any questions you have.

The po file is the working copy, it’s not the translation. The only file you need is the compiled .mo format file.

1) i’m not aware of this behave and i doubt you can get this to work.
2) yes
3) yes
4) you understood wrong. I said the inverse.

To resume the situation:
WP stays in english and you want BP in a different language. This is not possible with the automatic translation system.

Maybe you have to use some multilanguage plugin ?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=translation

Common usage

To get automatically a buddypress translation for your site, you have nothing special to do, except setting up WordPress to a custom language.

Note that the language should exist on GlotPress and must be completed to 100%.
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress

In this case, which is default situation, the translation will be automatically uploaded to wp-content/languages/plugins/

For each new BP version (at least any major releases), you will receive the latest translation available. And the existing po/mo files are then overiden.

Custom usage

If you use a custom translation, you have to protect your work from automatic updates which continues to work. To do that, you need to create a buddypress folder in the default location:

wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress

Once this location exist, it receives priority when a new translation is available. From this point, you continue to receive the translation in the new directory and you can store your custom version in the first directory wp-content/languages/plugins/.

This is how it works actually for BuddyPress. Will perhaps be modified in the future. But no idea when and how.

@kafic,

Since WP 4.0, you no more need to add the language constant to wp-config.
Read from here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language

Concerning brazilian portuguese, the WP translation file is named pt_BR.mo
Once this file is stored in wp-content/languages/, you select pt_br as site language from dashboard > General > site language. This is slightly different from other languages like german or french, who appear as a name in the list and not as de_DE or fr_FR.

To get BuddyPress in brazilian, you simply add the buddypress-pt_BR.mo to wp-content/languages/plugins/ directory

Tested as ok on a beta install of WP 4.5RC2 and BP 2.6alpha

Portuguese Brazilian translations files
WP Stable 4.4.x pt_BR
BuddyPress 2.5.x stable pt_BR

At the botom of these pages, select Machine Object Message Catalog before exporting.

And to get a plain translation of WordPress dashboard, don’t forget to export admin-pt_BR.mo (stored as sub-project on the left sidebar of translate.wordpress.org).

I had the same issue with CZ language: I had some strange character in my language file, i started it again from scratch and it worked just fine.

I found also this: BuddyPress translation packages are only updated if the translation is at 100% translated, if you do not see your language after updating your translations, please consider contributing to the the BuddyPress translation project.

Hello,
I try to translate Buddypress Emails into german. At the moment all Emails are listed are in English. I try to use the “reinstall emails” tool and always get the english version of the emails.

On this ticket https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6592 you mentioned the problem but I can find the solution.

I set define( ‘WPLANG’, ‘de_DE’ ) in the wp_config and also download the newest translation files from here: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/stable/de/default

What can I do to get the german version of the emails?

Thank you for your help!

Hi I’ve a got an other problem. The activation mail comes as plain textl.
HTML Email is not send.
All Emails are in English a german translation is only possible when i change the text manualy.

Befor the update i had a [bp-custom.php] and it worked.

@airsid

IF your translation file is up to date (have you re-downloaded the files to check?), those strings should be getting translated.

Otherwise, another option is to edit the email template. Copy buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/assets/emails/single-bp-email.php into your theme and make whatever changes you want.

@danbp The email subject and email body content are both intended to be translatable via .po/.mo.

@xxsemmiexx The Dutch translation of BuddyPress has not been updated for v2.5. Look here: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress — “Dutch” + “Stable” = 90%.

For example – the email in your screenshots – you can see the text is untranslated at the bottom of this screen of the translation tool: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/stable/nl/default?filters%5Bstatus%5D=untranslated&sort%5Bby%5D=priority&sort%5Bhow%5D=desc&page=10

Once a language’s translation is 100% complete for the “Stable” version, a Language Pack is automatically built, and your WordPress will then prompt you to download it on its normal “Updates” screen.

Once THIS happen, THEN you can run the repair tool, and you’ll have Dutch emails. 🙂

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You can see the latest available translation packs for all languages here:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/language-packs

Hi @xxsemmiexx,

the new email feature comes in with a pre-built list of emails. These emails are defaults one for any possible situation in BuddyPress. It’s more or less the same as you have on your profile > settings > messages, where you have the email situation and a checkbox.

The translatable part of these emails, shipped with xx_XX.po/mo, is the mail subject.
When you click on the subject from within the email list, you’ll get the email editor.

At this stage and if the mo file is correctly made, you see the list in your language.

Now, let’s see the mail content. Click on Edit.

As title you have the subject (which is translated) and the body (which is not).
That’s intended so. It’s fake content in english and let you see how to use the tokens inside the email body – or subject.

This is also usefull if you want to add some custom email.

That said, after updating a translation, the modification doesn’t show up automagically in the list. To see it, you have to run the email repair tool.

Hope it is clear and helpfull for you.

I’ll try to test this type of email before the weekend. Can you paste me the translated text you’ve entered into the email title and email content for this type of email? Please put it on http://pastebin.com/ and then link to it here.

If all the other emails are working, it’s most likely that some custom text in the email is getting detected by your ISP’s email filters (etc) and blocking the email.

I will put your translation into my email of this type, and test it, and see if it works for me.

Yes, the French translation needs to be updated for BuddyPress 2.5. See https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/stable/fr/default?filters%5Bstatus%5D=untranslated&sort%5Bby%5D=priority&sort%5Bhow%5D=desc

@lanvalencia The Spanish translation still needs to be completed for BuddyPress 2.5. The new phrases for the emails have not been translated: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/dev/es/default

Maybe you can help @_dorsvenabili get those done 😀

After the translation is updated, and after WordPress downloads the updated language pack (the .mo and .po files), go to wp-admin > Tools > BuddyPress and run the “Reinstall emails” tool.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/kQj5CtT.png

This will reinstall the emails in Spanish for you.

Thank you for using BuddyPress!

unfortunately this forum is for support with BuddyPress itself, when there are added plugins it can make it impossible for someone to test.

Did you read through translation docs? https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/buddypress-in-your-language/

Hi,

you need to use bbpress.po translation file, even if your site is in default english language.
Or if you only want to modify one word, you can use this snippet from inside your child-theme’s functions.php (will also work in bp-custom.php)

function bruce_change_name( $translated, $original_text, $domain ) {
		
	if ( 'bbpress' !== $domain )  
	return $translated; 
	
	switch ( $original_text ) {
		
		case 'Forums':  // original word
		return 'Four Rhum'; // your custom word
		
		default:
		return $translated;
	}
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'bruce_change_name', 10, 3 );

WP reference: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/gettext/