For me it doesn’t work. the upgrade totally damaged my installation… after reinstalling 1.5.7. all worked again, but the widgets and translations on my site disappeared… Any Ideas??
Please help!
Sorry, that’s what I meant (I’m not very well-versed in this area, yet). It appears validator users import .po files. From https://translate.wordpress.org/getting-started
Importing external files
There may be the case where a validator needs to import translations from an external file (current supported formats are .po, .android and .rrc). When the file is imported, only untranslated strings will be written. Also, if the imported file contains original strings not present in GlotPress’ list, those strings will be ignored.
You can import .pot files onto GlotPress, so I don’t think that’s a problem. And, yes, of course BuddyPress needs translation. 
I am going to pick up this issue and investigate. I will update on here and on bpdevel.wordpress.com in due course.
http://i18n.trac.BuddyPress.org/ was created a long time ago – BP 1.1 i guess – for translations. This was announced on this forum by Andy.
But you’re right @djpaul, the url was never populated or mentionned since, except perhaps on Codex (de profondis). Same thing for Glotpress. I worked whith it at the beginning, but was rapidly tired by copy/pasting and some bugs.
Glotpress could be usefull in a collaborative perspective, not for a one man work. It’s faster to translate offline with poEdit. Without saying that i can rapidly jump to my archives, control the final output and so on. My browser is not a office, despite look alike sometimes.
In my point of view, the above url is the best repository for mo files, with sorted versions and fast zipped download.
FYI, the i18n exist also for wordpress https://i18n.trac.wordpress.org/browser and is really used by many translators.
I also don’t know how things proceed. I translate BP in french since 2008/12 without any instruction,, except the invite to use the i18n trac for better translation access.
That said, does BP already need translation ? The pot file is the only thing you need to proceed. Because the software is very customisable, a standard translation is not very usefull, because 3/4 of the words can be customized too, to fit a unique BP project.
JJJ says: [it was? used for] manual upkeep of translation files. Unclear if it was ever connected to GlotPress directly.
I don’t know what/how things should proceed. My guess is to migrate from that to using GlotPress, but I have no experience in this area. If you want to take a lead in working through these issues — perhaps by starting a discussion on the polyglots blog, https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/ — that would be very helpful.
I didn’t even know http://i18n.trac.BuddyPress.org/ existed. Will talk to JJJ and see if we need it. I believed all the translation to be on GlotPress now.
There are 3 core developers; John James Jacoby, Boone Gorges, and myself. We all read and reply on the forums, but we also have a team of forum moderators who have excellent BuddyPress knowledge: hnla, r-a-y, and mercime. There are many others who regularly help out on the forum. Not everyone knows everything, and if the question is extremely technical or is a “build X feature for me” post, then that person might skip over that forum topic — which is fine.
Stepping outside the forums, we have a lot of contributions from people writing tutorials, talking about BuddyPress at WordCamps and local meet up groups, people writing patches, writing BuddyPress plugins and themes, submitting/managing bug reports and enhancement ideas, writing and improving documentation on the BuddyPress Codex, writing translations, helping other users in real-time in our IRC channel… and there are probably other areas that I’ve overlooked.
Lots of people are involved with BuddyPress. Everyone can be involved with BuddyPress. And someone will get to your question as soon as possible; if no-one does, feel free to post a reply on it to bump it to the top of the list after a couple of days.
Translation is managed by http://wppolyglots.WordPress.com — post there and ask to contribute to the Norwegian translation of BuddyPress. Thanks!
In the WP mo file there is a translation for curly quot opening and closing quot 8220 and 8221 to respectively laquo and raquo
This is welle translated in forum post and comments, and NOT in the site wide activity witch ouput 2 closing quote.
The only way actually is to not translate the quote and using the original 8220/8221, but this gives english quotes; In french we use laquo and raquo.
I searched and tried many things, but couldn’t isolate the origin who sits probably between wp-includes/formating.php and buddypress/…/…/backpress/functions_kses.php and some filter in bp-activity-filter.php
The wrong things are the two closing quotes in french.
For better understanding you can read here, but’s in french:
http://bp-fr.net/groups/utilisation-configuration-optimisation-de-buddypress/forum/topic/probleme-de-guillemet-dans-buddypress#post-4986
Hi,
what languages are you using ?
what is the weigth of your translation buddypress-xx_XX.mo file ?
Hi Everyone,
Ive got a buddypress site online, (http://yogamalafoundation.org) and I need to add a class to some the links surrounding member names which are output in functions in bp-core-widgets.php and in the bp_get_activity_action() function. I use a translation plugin called Transposh (http://transposh.org) and sometimes user’s names are translated by accident. Adding a ‘no_translate’ class to elements will stop this issue.
So going through my bp-theme I’ve made changes the members loop and a few other places, but I need to access the main activity items and place this class on the member names. After doing my best to track down where this is generated in BP I figured that the main activity items come from bp_get_activity_action() on line 1137 of bp-activity-template.php bp_get_activity_action() doesn’t actually contain much in it, but calls in bp_get_activity_action_pre_meta with an apply_filters_ref_array.
I can’t figure out where the array bp_get_activity_action_pre_meta is stored, or how I can edit it to insert that class. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
With the same goal of adding a class, I need to make changes to bp-core-widgets.php on line 66 to add the no_translate class.
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<a class="no_translate" href="” title=””>
`
Is there a way I can do this with bp-custom.php? or can I save this file somewhere in my bp-theme directory and have it overwrite bp’s default bp-core-widgets.php?
I’m still quite new to BP and trying to get a sense of how I can work with the templates/file structure while keeping it update-able for future releases.
BP version 1.5.4
WP 3.2.1
Thanks a bunch!
Use a language translation file to customize BuddyPress labels, messages, and URL slugs in one go –> https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/
1) Change titles using language translation file – https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/
2)
a) Setup forum without groups ==> Yes. Install Sitewide Forums via dashboard BuddyPress > Forums https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/
b) Use Groups as Categories ==> Coming up in BP 1.6 or so per roadmap.
@gggamers something’s getting lost in translation. WP/BP versions? Did you go through the Installation Wizard and choose settings other than default permalink, among others? What theme are you using? Change to bp-default and check if issue is corrected.
You can add this to wp-config.php:
`define( ‘BP_FORUMS_SLUG’, ‘conversations’ );`
That will change the slug. To change the actual text that is rendered on the page, check out the “Custom Groups Name” plugin at http://hardlyneutral.com/wordpress-plugins/
…and if you are feeling adventurous, go ahead and start editing your translation files!
About .pot, .po, and .mo Translation Files in BuddyPress
You would have to add some filters (or a language translation .mo file) to change the text used to create activity items. Do you know enough PHP to do this if we can find out what filters you’d need to use?
Croatian?
If so, the file name is wrong. It should be “buddypress-hr.mo” etc
Languages and Translations
Can u explain me how exactly need to install translate on other language. I put my mo and .po file in
wp-content/languages/buddypress-dev-hr.mo
wp-content/languages/buddypress-dev-hr.po
And translation doesent work yet. Any suggestion any tip what i doing wrong?
To change the Members label throughout the site, you need to create/use a language translation file https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/
== Is there a way to make the change from “Groups” to “Leagues” happen everywhere? ==
Yes. Use language translation file as in https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/
You’re either going to have to do a find/replace in your theme, or use a language file to achieve the same; https://codex.buddypress.org/translations/.
