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Hi @shemakeswebsites,

12.0.0 brings URL slugs customization, that’s a big improvement to have meaningful URLs for non English communities.

These communities are using different words for things like Activity, groups etc.. They can do so thanks to the l10n feature of WordPress. So a good way to reach your goal is to use a custom translation file. And I believe it’s the best way to do so, because the page title or labels won’t be enough to really reword all places where we use groups.

You can try to put your custom translation file into wp-content/languages/buddypress/buddypress-xx_XX.mo replacing the xx_XX with your locale maybe it’s even working with en_US.

The best approach to achieve this is to create a translation file for your native tongue, which will allow you to alter all the idioms.

@Venutius is correct however do note that the already posted activities would not change after changing the translation as activities are stored in the database.

The best way to do this is by creating a translation file for your home language, this way you can change all the standard phrases.

@werny: With the new German translation (as of today) I did not see this.
I think it should be fixed, else send an update.

What you have to do is to the WordPress.org PolyGlott translation web site:

https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de/formal/wp-plugins/buddypress/

Get familiar with the translation system there (you can also download and upload files)
and after proposing about say a hundred translations,
join the WordPress DE Slack and in the #polyglots channel,
and kindly ask to become a PTE (Plugin Translation Editor) for BuddyPress.

I did this now and reviewed and translated all over 1000 missing or bad German translations!

If the informal “Du” (not the formal “Sie”) translation is enough for you,
let your WordPress installation download the latest translations by setting the global
Language in Settings > General > Language to “German”.

Otherwise, WordPress may also download my new translations automatically,
at least when you update the Plugin or switch the language.

The German translation I completed now is not yet perfect and 100% consitant,
so I am looking for reviewers, testers and contributors!

Please, by any means: Everyone using BuddyPress in “German”:

Flip your Site Language, and on the switch back to German (Du), it should download
soon download the new translation and try them out!

You can also review my translations here:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/stable/de/default/?filters%5Btranslated%5D=yes&filters%5Bstatus%5D=current&filters%5Buser_login%5D=bkaindl

If you have improvements proposals, please register on the site and submit your improvements!
(If you also drop me a note, I should be able to review and include your fixes!)

Thanks and I hope it works for everyone…!

Hi @kipperlenny,
Hope so you’re doing good, to resolve this issue, you will need to manually add the missing translation string to the pot file or update the pot file with the latest version that includes the missing translation. Once the translation is added or updated, you should be able to translate it to German using the Loco plugin.
Hope so this will work for you!
Regards,
Bryce June

FYI: I have suggested “%s heeft een nieuw bericht geschreven” as a new translation for “%s wrote a new post” at https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/stable/nl/default/

edit: I found the error.
It is indeed a translation error.
I found the translation of Buddypress in wp-content/languages.
With PoEdit I saw that “%s wrote a new post” was translated as “%1$s heeft een nieuw bericht %2$s geschreven”.
I changed the translation to “%s heeft een nieuw bericht geschreven”.
PoEdit generated a new mo-file which I uploaded to wp-content/language. Now the problem is solved (for me).

Hai Mathieu,
I have no multisite and also did not keep old files, but I Think I found something: near line 233 of the bp-blogs/bp-blogs-activity.php file there is an note which says /* translators: 1: the activity user link. */.
This note triggered me to change the site language from Dutch to Engish, and the problem is solved! So in my opinion it has to do with the (Buddypress) translation to Dutch. I searched for the translation files in Buddypress, but couldn’t find anything ….

Hi developers,

I updated to 11.0.0 with no other issues than some translation missing. I use the BuddyX-theme.
Thanks for your work with this plugin.

Cheers, Lars