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You could edit the .po/.mo files and do a custom translation there, I’ve done so on a Swedish site, should work for English sites too, using the right locale.

But +1 for replacing once and for all what many people think is an animated 3D movie title, with something that is a bit more descriptive 😉

Hi @jf_trumpet,

the plugin you’re speaking about is intented for load your BuddyPress with translations provided by translate.wordpress.org

This means that if you’re site is in swedish, the plugin will automatically upload the swedish BP translation. Or similar if you’re site is in italian.

If you need some multilingual settings you have to use another plugin, like WPML for example.

More about BuddyPress translation and internalization here.

Normally you declare the site language from within the wp-config.php file.
For ex. define (‘WPLANG’, ‘it-IT’);
If you just want to test ONE other language, simply change this define to another language.

Be also aware that you can only define one language in wp-config.

hi @aniclip

it’s not a bug, you just try to translate something that doesn’t exist in the original file !
The exact string is Notify group members of these changes via email

If you’re using BP 1.9 the string to translate looks like this in the po file:

5912 #: bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/single/admin.php:26
5913 #: bp-themes/bp-default/groups/single/admin.php:26
5914 msgid “Notify group members of these changes via email”
5915 msgstr “Signaler par mail les changements aux membres du groupe”

If you need the fr_FR translations, you can find them here:
https://i18n.trac.buddypress.org/browser/fr_FR/tags

And in the future, also here:
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/dev/fr/default

And of course, any information about translating BP in french is on the french BuddyPress site: http://bp-fr.net

Hi @jayjaym,

Remove “buddypress” tag from wp-content/themes/platfrom/style.css

Tags: buddypress, rtl-language-support, editor-style, theme-options, one-column, two-columns, three-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, flexible-width, custom-menu, fixed-width, threaded-comments, custom-background, custom-header, custom-colors, custom-menu, photoblogging, translation-ready, white, silver, light, blue, green, yellow

let us now if it’s work !

Mike

WordPress and BuddyPress are set up to work in different languages provided the alternative language files are available and installed.

There is a difference between running a site purely in another language, vs. having an existing site be able to switch between languages.

If the site will be purely in Spanish that’s straightforward, you have to just load the WordPress and BuddyPress Spanish language files. If you want to switch that’s more complicated and you will want to use a plug-in to achieve that.

If you are switching between languages, there’s the question of the WordPress & BuddyPress text (the buttons, things like “user1 posted an update 10 minutes ago” etc., and then there is your content, your words and the page, the menus etc.

You’ve got a bit of reading to do to learn more about this.

Start with https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language

For BuddyPress you can use this plug-in to make sure it loads the latest Spanish language files:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-translations

There are a bunch of plugins for maintaining a bilingual site that all work in different ways. Try WPML or qTranslate to get you started (although you may find they do not fully support BuddyPress, you’ll have to try them or contact the developers to see.)

TL:DR; is it’s very straightforward for standalone sites in a different language, but pretty complex for multi-lingual sites that you can switch between languages.

With 1.8.1 I created a new page called “Clubs” and pointed the Buddypress Groups page to it so that the URL and breadcrumb now appear as “Clubs”. So this problem is now solved.
I would like to know the best way to change the word “Group” to “Clubs” on the rest of my site (Member Profile Tab etc). I see some very old threads that suggest using a language translation file but wanted to ask for the latest recommendations.

While we are on the subject of Notifications, I was just wonder how you could translate notifications when you are looking at the profile, I have been searching through all code using notepad++ but i cant find it

Hi. Which theme are you using, what versions of WordPress and BuddyPress are you using, and where did you download the translation file from? Thanks.

Nothing happen after deleting some group codex in function.php.

@kostasze something’s getting lost in translation. Let’s start with: WP/BP versions? What theme are you using? Why are you removing the group codes from your theme’s functions.php file? Did you do as modemlooper mentioned above?

Rename wp-content/plugins to plugins-off and then try to access your admin.
This will disable all plugins and let you back into site. Once back into site, rename folder back to plugins. If you deleted anything from the BuddyPress folder, go to plugins page in admin and delete and reinstall BuddyPress.
Never remove or delete anything out of the BuddyPress plugin folder.

@alealealeo this only applies to activity stream items. Think of it as a snapshot of what happened at that point in time – text strings are written to the database. When querying the database, that info isn’t going to change – regardless of any filters or translations you’ve set up.

the easiest way would be to create a folder called “languages” in your wp-content folder and put a copy of buddypress.pot from wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-languages.

– Rename the new buddypress.pot from “languages” to “buddypress-en_US.pot”
– Download Poedit – http://www.poedit.net/download.php – and install it
– Open “buddypress-en_US.pot” with Poedit
– Press Ctrl + F and search for “Registering for this site”. The string should appear.
– In Translation field put any text you want. It will simply replace the original text.

This is pretty much the best way to use your own words in your BP installation rather then modifying the core files. It might sound complicated but it’s actually pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

Cheers

I have the same question as Ben.

I know we shouldn’t modify core files. I know there are .po and .mo files for translations. But creating an entire .mo file for only one ( 1 ) more translation is overkill ( since poedit doesn’t let you just “add” an entry to an existing .po file ). ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7680021/how-to-add-a-new-string-to-a-po-file-w-a-po-editor )

I have a third-party theme, and I’ve copied the buddypress folder in it. In members/ there is an “activate.php” file where I changed some text.

But the “Check Your Email To Activate Your Account!” is not in activate.php, nor register.php, nor anywhere else.

So, the question is simple: where is located the string “Check Your Email To Activate Your Account!” ?

( Let me guess something else: there is no translation in the official translation files for this specific string, maybe, because it just isn’t in the registration php files ? )

I think that’s what Ben wanted too.

@magnusnordqvist,

to verify if gettext is enabled localy, you probably have to read your MAMP or WAMP user manual. 😉

Did you made your translation correctly ? I mean by usig poEdit (or similar software) to generate the compiled mo file ?

Once correctly compiled, the translation file must be in the language themes folder.

wp-content/languages/themes/your_theme-sv_SE.mo
wp-content/languages/themes/buddypress-sv_SE.mo
wp-content/languages/themes/twentythirteen-sv_SE.mo

etc……