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No I don’t think so.

The alternative is to change the text by way of creating your own translation of it using Poedit.

See the following:

Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs

The poedit program, used for editing and creating the translation files is available for free here:

https://poedit.net/download

Hi, perhaps you omited a dot or another php element. Anyway, below snippet add same fonction to members directory by using the appropriate filter, so you haven’t to touch the template.
Add it to child theme functions.php or bp-custom.php

Show user’s role on member directory

function who_are_you_dir() {

$user = new WP_User( bp_get_member_user_id() );

	if ( !empty( $user->roles ) && is_array( $user->roles ) ) {
		foreach ( $user->roles as $role ) {

	/**
	 * Fetch the user's role. See https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
	 * _e('role name', 'text_domain' ) allows use of translation
	 * else use echo "role name"; 
	*/

		// Output
			if ( $role == 'administrator') {
			echo "Administrator";
			} 

			if ( $role == 'subscriber') {
			echo "Subscriber";
			} 

			if ( $role == 'contributor') {
			echo "Contributor";
			}

			if ( $role == 'author') {
			echo "Author";
			}

			if ( $role == 'editor') {
			echo "Editor";
			} 
		}
	}
}
add_filter ( 'bp_directory_members_item', 'who_are_you_dir' );

To show user’s role(s) on his profile, you can use this:

Show user’s role on profile

function blablabla() {

$user = new WP_User( bp_displayed_user_id() );

	if ( !empty( $user->roles ) && is_array( $user->roles ) ) {
		foreach ( $user->roles as $role )
			echo $role;
	}
}
add_action( 'bp_before_member_header_meta', 'blablabla' );

WPML seems to be the most sophisticated translation engine, however it adds a lot of complexity to the site and using it with Buddypress tends to mean you will have a slow site.

Hi @3t_mj,

this can be done CSS, using :after pseudo selector. All labels containing (required) have a for attribute which let you select them individually. You can also apply a rule by field type.
As the string (required) is in translation, remove it from there and use & nbsp;(without space after & ) in place of.

Here a working example, with both technique.

/* Register bp section */
#profile-details-section .field_type_textbox label:after {
  content: " *";
  color: red;
  position: relative;
}

/* Register WP section */
#basic-details-section label[for="signup_username"]:after {
  content: " *";
  color: red;
  position: relative;
}

Check the translation file: buddypress_CN.po (with a text editor like Notepad++) and verify that email text are all in plain text. Those strings shouldn’t contain any html entities.

Read from here for more details about email customization:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/customizing-emails-template/
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/registration-process/

Before saying it’s not working, please follow the instruction.
Read my previous answer slowly and check the path i indicated.

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

According to the screenshot, your site use the mexican version of WordPress.

Unfortunatly, there is no mexican spanish translation avaible for BuddyPress !

This force you to use spanish (es_ES and NOT es_MX) as site language to get automatically the es_ES BP translation.

In other words, you can’t use mexican language on main site if you want BP in spanish.

Translation can be found here: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/2.2.x

@alex42152,

The main site language should be set to spanish first.
See in WP dashboard > Stettings > General

Normally, this settings allows automatic translation file upload of BuddyPress and bbPress (if installed).
If not, you can add manually the language files in the wp-content/languages/plugins/ folder to get:

wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-es_ES.mo
wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-es_ES.po

Each version of BP comes also with its own translatable strings file, which is at the BP plugin root.
wp-content/plugins/buddypress/buddypress.pot

The default BuddyPress site setup only supports a single activity, members, groups directory page.

One solution is to create your own custom page templates, and embed the code for the activity, member and group loops in the template. You’d then assign it to your duplicate pages. You can read more about coding your own loops in the documentation section of this site.

You could also look to see if it’s possible to use the language files — dynamically loading the appropriate text domain translations of the BuddyPress text depending which language the user has selected. In this scenario, you’d work with the default ‘single’ page setup.

Perhaps too late for your site (if you’ve gone down the polylang route), but for all our multi language solutions, we go the multisite approach and using the Multilingual Press Pro plugin. It gives a really clean solution. Remember to enable bp multiblog if you switch to this approach.

Hi @thesmartone,

I even changed wp_config.php, variable WPLANG
This is no more necessary since WP 4.0

If your WP is in portugese, BP should be in same language automatically (except if you deactivated this feature)

BP translation can be found on GlotPress. pt_BR is translated to 96% (see here)
The po/mo files goes to wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-pt_BR.mo

Your comment is awaiting moderation, is a default WP string. In many cases, it can also be in theme. To ensure this, activate 2013 or 2015 and test all translations for WP and BP.
Deactivate all other plugins while doing this.

And before claiming about buggypress, check for PBCK. Or better, read the doc before installing something. 😉

The download link on glotpress is below the content, in the bottm left corner.
Select the mo format and click on “export” and do the same for po format.

I’ve heard that the buddypress traduction never fails

Caramba ! Never trust rumours !

I can´t believe that nodoby has the same problem

Search for “translation” on this forum and you’ll be stumped !

Which theme do you use ?
Can you test youre install with Twenty Fifteen theme and see if anything is translated ?
Are the terms not translated on front-end, or also in back-end ?

FYI, the spanish translation for BP is only completed to 96%, but activity is translated. To ensure you have the most recent copy, download the spanish .mo file from here and install it in wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-es_ES.mo

Something may be getting lost in translation, but if you mean you want the user who has just logged in to be redirected to his/her profile, then check out https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/

thanks @henrywright for the swift reply … i was struggling with where to place these files, not seeing updates and generally wondering what I had been doing wrong. Basically I had been replacing the messages of the .po files when generating the new .mo translations … instead one should simply add a preferred translation as the following article suggests (https://wpalchemists.com/2014/05/buddypress-translation-files/)

oh the woes of .po & .mo ‘s … hope this helps someone else though!

This core function has no filter. The easiest way is to use a language translation file.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

In pot file, the concerned string Members is commented by [ component directory title ].

Hallo @rene-streber,

First of, i would recommend that you revert to a basic WP install using 2014 or 2015 theme and the WP’s german language activated and all plugins deactivated.

If you have a local install, suggest you do your test on it instead of the prod site.

Once this is done, you activate BuddyPress. German language will automatically be uploaded to the right folder (wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-de_DE.mo)
The original translation is here. It is complete to 100%. (and also the official translation).
FYI deckerweb provides a translation for bp 1.9 & 1.9.1. So seems to me it is outdated now.

Check if anything is correctly übersetzt. Theoretish sollte es jetzt funktionnieren.

If ok, you activate the main theme. Recheck everything. If ok, reactivate your plugins one by one and check each step to isolate an issue, if ever.

If everything is correct again, you can handle the specifics for your homepage. But remind one thing: BuddyPress components use a page system which is only in for internal purpose. This means that you can’t apply a page model like for an usual WP page. And if you use a special template just for the homepage, you have to adjust it to work with BuddyPress.

Each activated BP component should have a page assigned. And this page must be unique and empty, whithout any template or model settings, just a title.

I see that you have some issue with page names in your menu. Button show community2 and the permalink contains community-4. Check this too, to get community only everywhere. And probably clear your trash as it may contain some duplicates from previous attempts.

Once this is cleaned, und mit klarer aussicht, simply resave your permalinks to reinitialize all links.

When your custom language file doesn’t contain a correct header version, it will be overwriten at each BP update.

To avoid this, you have 2 solutions.
– completely deactivate automatic translation upload, which will affect the whole site: theme and plugins.
– keep a safe copy and upload it to the site AFTER the update. Tehn if something is missing or no more translated, you can update your version from the pot file shipped with BP.

If you use a cache, you have to clear it before installing a custom version. You must be sure that your wersion is running, in any case.

Chinese isn’t working for BP but works for WP.
Russian is ok for WP & BP

Have you a chinese translation for BP ?

The avaible zn_CN po header needs to be completed if you want to make your own version based on it.