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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

OneCommunity theme is integrated with a BuddyPress plugin which lets users register on site and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups and much more. A social network in a box, build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community.OneCommunity is a BuddyPress WordPress theme for community websites or else. This nice template offers a bunch of useful and advanced features such as full bbPress integration, color and layout variants, translation readiness and many more. With OneCommunity you have the option to create social networks for all kinds of purposes e.g. company, school, sports team or niche community. That way you can bring people sharing the same interests together. You do not need coding skills or knowledge and can still operate your website like rtc logistics tracking with ease and simplicity.

Just my opinion and just an AI translation:

Where are the sticking points?

BP core:
After 9 months with BP and several free BP plugins, there are still a lot of questions. Group handling and invitation are too complex and partly illogical. (Example: Group Owner is allowed to remove himself and then the administrator has to ‘intervene’). Furthermore, internal e-mail, where you have to select users based on their usernames (@…). Also not visually appealing and sometimes rather confusing in use. Other BP features (sorting/displaying members within groups!) that don’t work even on a WP default theme (Twenty Twenty-Two). Just annoying!

In principle, the core plugin provides too little (in terms of functionality). Best example: Blogging and media. Something that defines WP at its core. In addition to two larger commercial “BP providers” and some ancient plugins in the WP repo, the selection and comparability is difficult if you want to use them for specific rights and groups. I understand that you want to offer an open and expandable system, but something “more” would be desirable or necessary.

BP mailing list:
Hardly any actions, but many (trivial) questions and no answers. On the other hand, technically interesting answers are often 10 years or more in the past (and unfortunately still up-to-date in principle), but where there is no attempt to test them in a current BP version.

ToDo (Plugins into Core):
Directory: Very important! Of course you can use “BP Custom Fields” but there’s no option to do a filter search, based on different fields to exclude displaying other profiles – or I just can’t find the options. Tried “BP Profile Search”

Why not just embed a few components “more tightly” into the core, why not simply take over the source code of others who simply “copy” BP themselves without returning anything to the community? There was an interesting discussion about this recently on another platform site.

Wishes:
– Rights management for pages/posts or for individual BP components (either private/public or at user level) – e.g. “User Access Manager”
– E-mail communication between each other without having to use the real e-mail address and being able to leave the borders of BP – e.g. “BP Reply By Email”

It’s a pity, but currently STILL not enough for uncomplicated use and sometimes stopped in development. In addition, commercial providers who copy BP as well as other WP Social Media Group solutions that are more complete and appear more self-contained.

To name a few plugins that could be partially included:

Theme: BuddyX (free)
BP 11 (dev) &
BP Attachments (dev) (what does it do? Substitution of BuddyDrive?)
– bbPress (smarter integration)
– BP Profile Search (no filter options found)
– BP Reply By Email (should be core as option)
– BuddyDrive (should be Core)
– Buddpress Docs
– BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Field Types (should be core)
– BuddyPress Xprofile Conditional Fields (should be core)
– Rendez Vous (should be core as option)
– “BuddyPress XY Blog” (should be core)
– “BuddyPress XY Search”