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.
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.
—
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
