Size of the translation shouldn’t affect anything.
Here are files for translation ( default and fr_FR)
http://owni.fr/misc/opensource/traductions/buddypress-maps/
hope it could help 
I’ve still a similar problem, see https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/error-with-forum-bp-v1-2-5-2/ butte didn’t getany response yet. I use a windows 2003 Server System with the following plugins installed: Akismet, BP Xtra Signup, BuddyPress, BuddyPress Album+, BuddyPress Forums Extras – RSS Feeds, Buddypress Friends, BuddyPress Profile Privacy, BuddyPress Tweet Button, Configure SMTP, Duplicate Post, Easy Verification, Fast Secure Contact Form, Invite Anyone, Jet Event System for BuddyPress, Link Library, My Brand Login, NextGEN Gallery, oEmbed for BuddyPress, TinyMCE Advanced, Transposh Translation Filter, Welcome Pack, WP Google Weather
Thanks I’ll have a look at it ! I’ve seen that the french translation https://i18n.trac.buddypress.org/browser/fr_FR has multiple files, how to pick the right one ?
https://codex.buddypress.org/translations/
Have a look in the WordPress plugin repository for plugins that let your users switch language. You’ll also find plugins that support translation of page content (as opposed to the standard BP menus / text)
Are you running any translation plugin? i.e. qTranslate?
Setting language on “Dashboard>Settings>General>Site Language”.
WP language file is Ok. If I uninstall bp and set wp to portuguese it just runs fine.
If I try to install bp with the language set to portuguese, the error occours during bp activation.
I worked aroung seting the language to english and was able to install/activate bp.
After bp activation, I uploaded brazilian portuguese translation files (which are outdated) and set wp to portuguese.
Error happens after the “Save Changes” on the “Dashboard>Settings>General>Site Language” page.
Sorry missed that slight difference
You just need to make sure the file_exists function line looks for the file in the same directory as the load file line.
hnia, hi, and thank you for your patience…
ehm… there is a little difference in the 2 files I have posted, in the second I wrote my-bp-language… (but I see the order was wrong) because I thought about create a folder “my-bp-language” in the plugin directory…
I would do like you have said:
“stick em in a new folder kept in /plugins/”
so if I have (ops!) understood, is:
`define( ‘BPLANG’, ‘mysite’ );
if ( file_exists( WP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/buddypress-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ ) ) {
load_textdomain( ‘buddypress’, WP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/my-language-files/buddypress-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ );
}`
and I put a folder “my-language-files” IN the plugin folder… is it right?
reassure me, please…
sorry hnia I’m totally newbie, I promise you I go on amazon to search the dummy’s book!!!
(but the english too is not my cup of tea… sigh!)
ciao! you are kind!
You have copied the same example twice and that’s the stock default directory for bp language files.
You want the second example below that one:
`define( ‘BPLANG’, ‘mysite’ );
if ( file_exists( WP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/buddypress-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ ) ) {
load_textdomain( ‘buddypress’, WP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/buddypress-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ );
}`
if you want the files in their own directory then do:
/my-language-files/buddypress-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’
thank you hnia, you are right, I have read more carefully the page… so I do create a bp-custom.php file ! argh!
something like this?
`<?php
//CUSTOM CODE FOR BUDDYPRESS
//PUT YOUR CODE HERE
define( ‘BPLANG’, ‘mysite’ );
if ( file_exists( BP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/bp-languages/buddypress-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ ) ) {
load_textdomain( ‘buddypress’, BP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/bp-languages/buddypress-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ );
}
?>`
like the example in the page, or do I do write my directory, like this for ex.:
`<?php
//CUSTOM CODE FOR BUDDYPRESS
//PUT YOUR CODE HERE
define( ‘BPLANG’, ‘mysite’ );
if ( file_exists( BP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/bp-languages/my-bp-language-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ ) ) {
load_textdomain( ‘buddypress’, BP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/bp-languages/my-bp-language-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ );
}
?>`
I’m sorry hnia, but I don’t understand very well… 
can you please tell me a little more?
thank you!
If you re-read the page it does say that you can place the files elsewhere to avoid them being overwritten I just stick em in a new folder kept in /plugins/
Flag the account issue to John James Jacoby or @DJPaul
Hi @xberserker,
you have it included in bp-cubepoint-core.php
load_textdomain( ‘bp-cubepoint’, dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/languages/bp-cubepoint-‘ . get_locale() . ‘.mo’ );
so just drop translations in the plugins languages folder.
I need a Catholic version of this. How difficult is it to add a translation to this?
Not having ever written a translation, that’s beyond my scope. Have you asked on the WP-Polyglots mailing list? I’m sure this is a common question.
Check this Group – it has lots of threads on localization / translation:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/localization/forum/
Language file should be used for translations not changing the actual wording on a site. po-edit does not make it easy. It takes me about 2-3 hours to change the title group to something else and I’ve had to do this 3 times now. You can’t simply do a find replace all you have to go through each and every one manually and this word is used a bunch of times. I tried find and replace all and then the site broke.
Have a look through https://buddypress.org/community/groups/localization/forum/topic/organizing-translations/
If you only want to change contents of the notification emails, you could see if Welcome Pack does what you want.
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.
