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Hi, I wanted to make my entire BP installation to be Classified-esque..
My plan was to simply change the word GROUP to Directories and FORUM to “LISTINGS”
I wanted to just do a search and replace in the translation file…

Is this a bad idea?
Any suggestions?

Our site is a group of blogs all connected to the main site. Right now the site and backend are in English but the base language of our site needs to be in Romanian. Plus we want to have language options for Russian and English build into the site as well.
I’ve tried installing BP Translate and BP Multilingual thinking it would be an easy process. But, though the language menu appears in the nav bar, no changes occur when you switch from language to language. I’m probably missing some steps yet…
Is there no plugin that does this without having to go into the database code?
Either way, would somebody be willing to walk me through the process. I can’t find any step by step instructions for beginners anywhere.

Following the information located here
http://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/
I’ve been able to change the labels and slugs of my installation to what the client requests.

My client though, also wants some functionality I can do via plugins (namely group blogs and documents), but their translation files still reflect the default labels. I tried to create another set of translation files from the plugin’s POT files, and load them via bp-custom but they doesn’t seem to load. I’ve only been able to get it to work via modifying the plugin’s actual load_textdomain, which is less than ideal as I’ll have to fix that everytime a plugin get’s upgraded.

Does anyone have any thoughts on why they might not load via bp-custom?

Thanks!