I don’t think they’re part of the language files, but you should be able to use this plugin to do the translations: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/welcome-pack/
Turns out it was an incompatibility issue with the plugin “Transposh Translation Filter”. I will contact the developer! Thank you!
Sorry. I closed the window on accident. Glad to help you out. This was the plugin which was causing problems: Transposh Translation Filter http://transposh.org/
We’ll we got it working (actually technical support got it working – nice guys too)
Now we haven’t stress tested it yet, but its a very nice chat implementation, but what really sealed the deal for us (we had been trying arrow chat) was the cool little modules for page translations and facebook/twitter.
We’ll worth a look and well worth $129
Hooks nicely into our buddypress and only can be used by logged in users so im hoping that will help keep bandwidth hammering down a little bit.
If it proves to be a sticky as i hope it will it will be a great investment.
@johnjamesjacoby: i’ve update my bp installation and updated the translation with the latest pot but for blog posts and group updates i see all in english, any idea to fix this?
1.2.5 in testing and for now no problem thanks JJJ, a question about translation there will be changes?
Looks like you have things properly set up. I would search the de_DE.po file for strings on the wp-login.php file and make sure they have German translations for them. This seems very weird.
A new topic is started at this location.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/localization/forum/topic/swedish-translation/
Please continue the discussion here.
[SWE] Denna tråd är flyttad till en bättre lämpad grupp, se länk ovan.
Hi Modemlooper,
your mentioned error is always showing up when I am working on my translations as well.
Not sure what this error means and where it is coming form, but you can just ignore this error-message and it still works fine.
The original .pot-file includes all the words and it should take you only a few minutes to translate the word Groups into Team….
Just updated the instructions.
The updated instructions are much easier as you don’t need to download translation files for WordPress.
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Re: your other question – You’ll need to download your WordPress language file and add them to /wp-includes/languages/
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language
What are you using to create your custom translation file? The .mo file should contain something.
I´m working on a translation to Swedish for BuddyPress right now, and use the language-file for this.
Anybody working on an updated version of the Swedish translation?
Thanx intimez and Paul. I select settings->permalinks and then a common setting like the second (date and name) or third (month and name) but when I click “Save Settings” there is a message (in greek this is the translation) on the bottom of the page that “if the .htaccess file was writable then save will be automatically be completed, but it seems that it is not. Here are the rules mod_rewrite that you must enter into the .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
“
So, I cannot save settings and I cannot find .htaccess file. I have manually (I uploaded the folder with filezilla) installed buddypress, because there was a problem with automatic installation. Maybe it is the “same” problem again…
I also tried to create the “.htaccess” file as Paul suggests but since I have windows xp, it is impossible to create a file without a filename.
I tried to make the “/” folder writeable also (I give you the procedure I followed). I logged in with filezilla and I right clicked on “/” folder. Then I clicked on file properties and I ticked “write” on owner, group and public and I also selected to apply this setting to subfolders.
Unfortunately, the problem remains 
That is what i’ve done:
1) downloaded plugin, and copy it to serwer to “wp-content/plugins”
2) activate plugin
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And next happen that:
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translation “You do not have sufficient permissions to enter this site.”
I have no access to dashboard.
Everytime i want to go to wp-admin it’s the same problem.
I’ve tired to install buddypress on 2 different hostings.
The same issues
@Johnjamesjacoby – I realize you’re busy guy – but any update on this. I’m looking for a simple plugin that will simply let a user change the BP interface language. google translation would be great but not essential.
Hi ,
I really like the site, very clean and well explained. I have a quick question. How did you change the Group Forums Directory menu name to Tutoring? Is there an easy way/place to do this? I have tried making a translation file but that didn’t work.
Thanks for any advise
james
The app is using the translation strings (with default verbiage) — that’s why you see stuff like __( ‘Leave Group’, ‘buddypress’ ) for example, in the code.
You need to make a custom language file as well as changing slugs in wp-config.php (optionally). Search this forum for more info on how to create a language file and switch it on with bp-custom.php for your install. I recommend getting poedit from Sourceforge to make editing easier.
For that to work as intended, you also need to set WP_LANG in your wp-config.php and load a nBb_NO translation for WordPress.
This is working now.
– Deaktivated and deleted BP.
– Reinstalled and activated BP.
– Hardcoded the language file in bp_core.php (replaced: buddypress-$locale with nb_NO.MO)
Not sure why BP wouldnt fetch the translation file.
A tag is for a specific release of BP: e.g. 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3.
A branch is for a specific range of releases: e.g. 1.2.*
Any bug fixes will be applied into the 1.2 branch so it’s a good, mostly safe place, to stay if you want to run a version newer than 1.2.3 that isn’t going to add new functionality or mess up your site.
Hi again Paul.
Yes, they are visable to search engines – (it would have been great if it was that easy).
I have a feeling that there is somethng wrong with the database.
I had some truble getting a language installation running, so i had to delete
everything BP related to get rid of the “white screen of death”, including every
bp_ line in the database. After the reinstallaltion of Bp, i see that something is
wrong (only with bp, everything else is working fine)
My very helpful host (wpwebhost), was able to atleast get bp and my language
installed. BUT, it is not translating BP, and i cant see any activity
– mammabloggen.no is the site if anyone want to have a quick look at it to see
what im talking about.
Everything was working fine (except translation) before deleted the lines in the
database. (it looks like they are all there, but i have a feeling that something is missing)..
Thank you for helping me out 
Ps. I will gladly pay someone to get this up and running for me, just PM me.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/german-language-translation/
