BuddyPress.org

Try downloading the following:

• https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/stable/de/default/export-translations
• https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/stable/de/default/export-translations?format=mo

Rename the files to buddypress-de_DE.po and buddypress-de-DE.mo respectively.

Then, move the files to /wp-content/languages/plugins/.

Since the translation is not 100% complete, you might see some English strings.

Let me know if that works for you.

I think the German translation is not fully 100% translated, which is preventing WordPress from fetching the latest German translation for BuddyPress.

If you are able to help translate the remaining strings, please visit:
https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de/default/wp-plugins/buddypress

Also, read the following guide to find out how to contribute towards the translation:

translate.wordpress.org (GlotPress)

Are you using BuddyPress Multilingual as well?

My guess is that BuddyPress has newer translation strings in v2.4.0 and you’ll need to update the BuddyPress-specific strings on your WPML install to reflect that.

Read their “Translating profile fields” tutorial:

BuddyPress Multilingual

They also have a support forum here:
https://wpml.org/forums/topic-tag/buddypress/

It might be that their plugin will need to be updated.

If it ends up that this is indeed a BuddyPress problem, please let us know.

Are you sure that the translation exist ? Have you a buddypress-xx_XX.mo file ? Where xx_XX is the iso of your language (eg en_US).

mo is a compiled format and the only file that php need to translate your strings.

To get such file, you need to use a language compilator like poEdit. Changing strings in only buddypress-xx_XX.po has no effect on the translation. This format is a simple text format intended to be used by the translator.

And the buddypress.pot (note the final T) is also a text format file which contains the list of all strings you can translate.

Where do you add your copy and which language do you use ?

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.