Any news on multi lingual buddypress installations?
Two installations can work but it means that users cannot wonder between languages unless they register/log into two separate sites.
No need for any sort of translation just a way to have segregation without complete isolation.
Hi, Paul, many thanks for your replay. It´s not a custom item, that i added by myself. I used a german translation (https://de.buddypress.org/home/) but this part seems not to be translatetd. I can´t find an item called “Group Forums” in buddypress-de_DE.po. Many thanks in advance.
French translation should be ready tomorow.
Is that a custom menu item? How did you add it?
Is anybody able to help me? Many thanks in advance.
Hi,
I have a wordpress site for several years, and now i whant to implement a buddypress pulgin, to turn it more “Social”….
Buddypress instalation is in good state, working good, but i can’t setup the forums.
Allways give me this error: The bb-config.php file was not found at that location, please try again.
Anyone can make a tutorial ???
Tell me where is the bb-config.php, i find one in the bb-forum folder, if its that one, tell me..
i try a relative path and an absolute path for that file and the error append everytime…
Note i installed a translation pack for Portuguese lang… I think this is not the problem…
Every thing is still as is came from the installation default…
Thank you in advance 
Ivo Vargas
The error was just because I’d deleted a string for one of the translations. Have added the string back in and now saves with no errors but still doesn’t update the changes on the site.
Hi there!
(note : backslashes are removed on the forum, so “n” is “backslash-n”)
I have a problem concerning the translation using the po/mo files. Everything works fine except for the emails content because of the new lines. Not the \n new line, but real new lines in code, as for example the file bp-groups-notifications.php:21 :
`
$message = sprintf( __(
‘Group details for the group “%s” were updated:
To view the group: %s
‘, ‘buddypress’ ), $group->name, $group_link );
`
Using Poedit myself or using the official translations (french in my case) generates the same po entry :
`
#: bp-groups/bp-groups-notifications.php:23
#, php-format
msgid “”
“Group details for the group “%s” were updated:n”
“n”
“To view the group: %sn”
“n”
”
n”
msgstr “”
“Les options de la famille “%s” ont été mises à jour:n”
“n”
“Accéder à la famille: %sn”
“n”
”
n”
`
In run time, the match is not made and therefore the content is not translated. The only way will be to add_filters to modify the email content, replacing the real new lines by n.
Any idea how to solve it ?
Thanks!
@skolbloggense: BP-Slick uses the same BuddyPress translation strings so the theme should just work fine with your Translation. The only thing that is not yet translated is the menu navigation. But that can all be found in one file, which is organized and very easy to edit. I think it will take you about 10 mins to translate it!
I will add po/mo files to the theme pretty soon (to make upgrading easier, so you won’t lose changes) but right now it’s yet added The Theme is now for sale btw.. It can be purchased with 20% discount until the end of the week: http://bp-tricks.com/purchase-bp-slick/.
Here’s the sales page with it’s features: http://bp-tricks.com/pre-order-bp-slick/. And a short video on how to get it running: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMb7tXXV6Rw&feature=player_embedded
@Bowe: Does your theme has the possabillity for translation in a .po file? Its pretty important for me to have the site in Swedish….
Hi, i want to correct a translation error in the navigation menu “Community”. The last entry is “Group Forums”. It should be “Foren”. Many thanks in advance.
Website: http://brainwerk.de/wpdemo/
Never mind, I figured it out. I re-read the intro and it says that the new .po and .mo files should have the format buddypress-mysite.po so I now changed that and placed all 3 files (.po .mo and bp-custom.php) into the root /plugins/ folder and all is working like a charm.
measure twice, cut once as they say!
I followed those instructions but it’s not clear to me what to put in the bp-custom.php file. Let’s say I name my translation buddypress2.po (and I have the corresponding buddypress2.mo). Where do I put “buddypress2” in the code:
`define( ‘BPLANG’, ‘mysite’ );
if ( file_exists( WP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/buddypress-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ ) ) {
load_textdomain( ‘buddypress’, WP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/buddypress-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ );
}
`
Also, am I meant to put buddypres2.po and .mo into the folder /plugins/ or the folder /plugins/buddypress/ ? The article is unclear about that.
Hi Paul,
I just tried this fix, but it didn’t work: http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/ie8-compatibility-mode.
Below is a list of my active plugins. But I’m not sure if it’s a plugin issue because the cropping works in Firefox. Is it an IE8 compatibilty issue? If so, how can I get around it?
Here are my active plugins:
* Advanced Permalinks
* AJAX Login Widget++
* BP-NotificationWidget
* BP Disable Activation
* BP Hide Widgets
* BP Member Filter
* BuddyPress
* BuddyPress Album+
* Buddypress Widget Pack
* Capability Manager
* Dean’s Permalinks Migration
* Enhanced BuddyPress Widgets
* Fast Secure Contact Form
* Fluency Admin
* IE7 Compatibility
* Invite Anyone
* Media Library Gallery
* My Comments Manager
* NextGEN Gallery
* NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget
* Nicer permalinks for Vietnamese
* oEmbed for BuddyPress
* ourSTATS Widget
* Peter’s Login Redirect
* Plugin Central
* SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
* Simple Trackback Validation
* TDLC Birthdays
* Theme Switcher Reloaded
* Top 10
* Transposh Translation Filter
* User Permissions
* Visitor Maps and Who’s Online
* Welcome Pack
* WordPress Admin Bar
* WordPress Database Backup
Thanks for your help!
Jdawn
Hi, I have a laguage problem with your plug-in.
Whatever I tried (PoEdit, or the codestyling-localization-Plug-in, building a bpxs-de_DE.mo, buildiing a bpxs-de_DE.po) nothing works. It seems that your plugin ignores all translations.
Is this an known issue?
Thanks in advance.
Now I have changed all fuzzy translations to real
and now the files are only half size and every thing is working
Size of the translation shouldn’t affect anything.
I am trying to establish a buddypress forum so far so good
But now I want to localise my site to Danish and now it is just going downhill 
I have established a .po/.mo file using poEdit and when I had translated 50% I tested the translation and so far it worked. So I continued translating and this morning I reached 80% But when I tested the new files everything on my site was in English.
Is the .po file simply too big (1886 lines)?
What can I do?
My BuddyPress/WordPress installation contains only following activated plugins: BuddyPress: Akismet and WK Cleaner!
Here are files for translation ( default and fr_FR)
http://owni.fr/misc/opensource/traductions/buddypress-maps/
hope it could help
Some thoughts:
Background: We are currently having an influx of native Spanish speakers in our field and participating in our Twitter Chats.
Proposed Implementation: Could we set aside certain groups in a particular language that could post along with regular posts, but be filtered by default to show the native language only in the TweetStreams? I.E. As an English Speaker, I only see the English Groups/Streams by default, BUT could and an inclusive filter to show a particular language and/or multie languages?
Further Extension: Then a user could choose to translate by clicking a button that would use the Google Translate Service…. They could then reply in their native language and have the option to post it as such or posted it as translated….
The filters are the key to making it not too mangled and the auto-translation is the key to making it work… Kind of like a virtual UN via Buddypress… Yes, I’m excited about the possibilities….
It seems like the technology is already here to do this and how awesome would something be like this for Educational purposes like ours and others?
Maybe this is already in your thoughts? If there are with the ability to do this kind of thing well and have a decided background in WP/BP/Google APIs , I would be willing to look for and help write grants for it…
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.
