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The codex instructions have been updated since then to better reflect the changes made to BP 1.2.7.

Putting the language file in /wp-content/languages/ is preferred because when you upgrade BP, your changes won’t be wiped out!

You have to make sure your generated .mo file is valid. I’d suggest recreating your translation files from scratch. Make very tiny changes then upload it to /wp-content/languages and check to see if your alterations stick. If they stick, keep on editing and then regenerate your translation files.

Also make sure your locale is correct.

To do a quick check, put “ in a template file somewhere and refresh the page to see.

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I just tested this to confirm and it works fine; I did not try this on WP 3.1 in Multisite mode though.

Well you could replace
`
case “Who’s Online Avatars”:
return $translations->translate( “Who’s Online…” );
break;
`
for
`
case “Join Group”:
return $translations->translate( “Follow” );
break;
`
in the example in the link
but as join appears quite a lot of times in buddypress, in different combinations, it might be better just to add your own language file….

@kenrichman

Have you tried?
`
case “Friends (%d)“:
return $translations->translate( “Mates (%d)” );
break;
`
Also. I have just discovered from the buddypress codex that the friends slug can be changed to match to your choice…
`
define ( ‘BP_FRIENDS_SLUG’, ‘peeps’ );
`
It goes in the wp-config.php file

“and when I put the part of (what part of?) I lost language files without login and when I try to log it makes
nothing. “

Something’s getting lost in translation. Do rephrase your question.

@Boone Gorges Great, if you need translators, i can provide RU translation

I think I may have just found a way – I saved the following as a plugin myself and it works. So If you change the Case text for your own it may help – I run single site so i can’t try it out…
`<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Text Mangle
Original Author URI: http://quirm.net/
Description: Replacing buddypress texts the eshop plugin way.
Based on PJW Translation Mangler by Peter Westwood http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/
Originally cut and pasted from: http://quirm.net/wiki/eshop/changing-displayed-text/
Author: Rich Pedley
Version: 0.01
*/
class buddypress_Translation_Mangler {
/*
* Filter the translation string before it is displayed.
*/
function filter_gettext($translation, $text, $domain) {
$translations = &get_translations_for_domain( ‘buddypress’ );
switch($text){
case “Who’s Online Avatars”:
return $translations->translate( “Who’s Online…” );
break;
}
return $translation;
}
}
add_filter(‘gettext’, array(‘buddypress_Translation_Mangler’, ‘filter_gettext’), 10, 4);
?>`
I would like to know if there’s anything wrong with using this technique in buddypress?

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/translations/

There’s something getting lost in translation. Could you rephrase your question?

Does this link help you?

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/translations/

‘WP Symposium’ may be closer than we thought

Looks like ‘WP Symposium’ is due to be an alternative to Buddy Press. But it looks a long way from being ready. Will have to hope that Transposh version 0.7.0 works and move away from Buddy Press before the site gets too many users. If Multi Language remains an issue.

Something’s getting lost in translation. Do you mean that you have three registered members but they are not listed in members page?

hi @modemlooper,
could you help a bit on translation, I know it is just one word – Share (button), but…

I added this line to bp-share-it.php:

`load_plugin_textdomain(‘bp-share-it’,’/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-share-it/languages/’);`

translation is loading, seems to work fine.

question is how I can add translation tags to this code (as I understand this is exact place word “Share” comes from (one of them, all others are the same):

`$shareit = ‘Share

‘;`

thanks!

It is a translation function. Wrapping ‘Blog Posts Feed’ in _e() ensures that it appears in the .po file that translators use to create language packs. The ‘buddypress’ argument ensures that it is associated with the ‘buddypress’ textdomain (since potentially the same string might be translated in different ways when part of different software packages).

The difference between __() and _e() is that _e() echoes the string to the screen.

WOW.
If U need any sort of translation to spanish, just let me know

No, use Transpoosh https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/transposh-translation-filter-for-wordpress/

it’s the best translator I have ever seen, it translates everything in buddypress + blog comments

I just requested to join your project at pivotal for spanish translation. Is it still needed ?

Sure. There’s one featured WordPress.tv presentation from WordCamp Yokohama. It’s a Japanese site (with English translation), http://loftwork.com, which only used BuddyPress components like Blog Tracking, Activity Streams, Private Messaging and Extended Profiles. Didn’t use Friends, Groups and Forums.
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