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The pot file doesn’t contain the translation, only the strings you can translate.

The translation is done in po (not pot) file and compiled to a mo file. buddypress-de_DE.mo is the file you have to use.

As you can see in the BP source (2.1),
$nav_name = sprintf( _x( 'Notifications <span class="%s">%s</span>', 'Profile screen nav', 'buddypress' ), esc_attr( $class ), number_format_i18n( $count ) );

This string in po. is outdated: Notifications <span class=\”count\”>%s</span>

You have to open your actual po file with poEdit (or similar translation tool) and update it with the pot file comming with latest BP version. (/buddypress/buddypress.pot)

Once updated the string to translate will be:
Notifications <span class=\"%s\">%s</span>
who should be translated to:
Benachrichtigung <span class=\"%s\">%s</span>

Be aware that poEdit uses different colors to indicate you the translated strings, the untranslated strings AND the fuzzy strings wich are approximative translation. These fuzzy strings must be double checked and validated or modified to work.

Example: difficult to see sometimes the subtle difference between “%s” and “count” when reading too fast ! 😉

Have you added a bp translation manually to another folder ? If yes, delete it.

If you use WP since a while and updated it recently, search a line containing define(‘WPLANG’, ‘xx_XX’)- xx_XX is a lang iso code, in wp-config.php. If you find one, delete it as it is no more used in WP 4.1

Control via FTP that bp translation is in wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-fr_FR.mo
If not there, ensure that /language/ and /plugins/ have their write access set to 755
The mo file should be 644.

Hi,

it is a custom string, you will not find it in the po file. So you can translate it directly in the function.

'%1$s created a new Project, %2$s'

'%1$s your translation, %2$s', where first variable is the username and the second the project name

You could also do differently and add this custom string to your po file, but in this case, you have to take care that your translation is not overiden by the next language update.

Spanish po/mo is only translated to 87% on glotpress and this phrase is actually not translated in the avaible version.

It seems you use wordpress-language plugin, who automatically upload the mo file for you and who probably overides your work.
Deactivate this plugin first, do your translation with poEdit, and add manually by FTP the po/mo files to wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-es_ES.mo

For more details and answers, read the longest BP topic about language:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-2-1-bp-language/

Your po/mo files should be added to this path (create it if it doesn’t exist):

wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-xx_XX.mo (where xx is the lang ISO code) For english, en_EN or en_US…

If you need more details how translation are working, search for “translation” or “language” on the forum.

Be carefull and keep a copy of these files localy ! 😉

Polylang plugin is intended to translate your site content

To translate BuddyPress you have to use the translation support shipped with the plugin (buddypress.pot in bp-languages folder) and create your own version of po/mo files.

Or to get a ready to use BP translation in your language, check out from here
For any hints about translation, or to contribute, see here.

Please use the code button to format code you paste into this forum.

To remove the count…
Assuming you aren’t using a language translation file, try this in your bp-custom.php file.

function john_gettext( $translated, $original_text, $domain ) {

    if ( 'buddypress' !== $domain )  
           return $translated;

    switch ( $original_text ) {
        case 'All Members <span>%s</span>':
            return 'All Members';

        default:
            return $translated;
    }
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'john_gettext', 20, 3 );

We can’t help with validating the translations on translate.wordpress.org. I am not sure who manages the Persian translations. If you can’t find out either, ask on https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/

Thank you for contributing translations to BuddyPress 🙂

@sadeghr Thank you for your contribution. I have updated the codex page based on what I assumed you meant. Please let me know if there are any changes to the text.