BuddyPress.org

In PoEdit > Catalog > Property.

Or open the po with a text editor and check the header. Looks like this:
(that’s the header of the Glotpress version for fr_FR)

# Translation of Stable (latest release) in French (France)
# This file is distributed under the same license as the Stable (latest release) package.
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"PO-Revision-Date: 2016-05-24 17:53:59+0000\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: GlotPress/2.1.0-alpha\n"
"Project-Id-Version: Stable (latest release)\n"

Important things are:
"PO-Revision-Date: 2016-05-24 17:53:59+0000\n"
and
"Project-Id-Version: Stable (latest release)\n"

Id can be text or numeric (ie. stable or 2.5.2).

Site language is the reference. Go to Settings > General and choose your site language.

If you use es_AR, you should use buddypress-es_AR.mo
If you use es_ES, you should use buddypress-es_ES.mo
and so on…

At each update, language files are also updated. This means that if you use bp-es_VE and the site is declared as using es_AR, your bp file will be updated to es_AR and BP will use this one instead bp-es_VE.

It would be better you use same language for site and plugins. What you can do, is to rename es_VE to buddypress-es_AR.po/mo. You need also to modify accordingly the header information in the po file. To do that you need to use poEdit to compile it to mo and get the correct header in it.

Note also that BP translation should be installed in wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-xx_XX.mo

Languages and Translations

Hi @paulrooms

The Italian translation of BuddyPress is up to date: https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/it/default/wp-plugins/buddypress

For the menu items (at least what I think you mean), you’ll need to go into wp-admin > Pages > Edit, and just rename/translate the pages yourself.

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.