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I think this could be what you need:

http://wpml.org/wordpress-translation/buddypress-multilingual/

The text “The default theme for BuddyPress” cannot be translated as it is in a .css file. As only the site administrator will see that text when they activate the theme, is it a big issue? The other text here is part of WordPress.

The wrong path thing is more interesting and there are some other forum posts here with that problem. I don’t know when I will get time to look into it so maybe someone else can help.

Hi

I’ll check this out after work.

I’m currently working on a user language setting for BuddyPress that will take on not just user settings but assist in translation for user to user interaction. There are lots of places where BuddyPress might not be completely internationalized, and the most likely cause is probably attributed to the developers and contributors so far being primarily native English speakers.

It’s hard for us to test different languages since we don’t understand the languages we’re looking at or reading or what they’re supposed to look like. We’re relying on the qualified multilingual developers to help us track down and fix the areas that could use the attention.

My current focus is on the English to Spanish side of this, with Portuguese next on the list. I’ve briefly tested the display of Chinese and French but admit that I understand those languages much much less.

I read a few weeks back there’s a plugin out there that’s starting to help out with the translation and language barrier. I hope that as more and more people start using BuddyPress that more people also help contribute to internationalizing it.

Not sure if this needs a separate thread, but as it is connected to the original post:

I have spanish speaking users and have uploaded the spanish Buddypress translations.

However:

– The buddybar follows the language settings of the blog it is on, not of the user that is logged in. Meaning that a Spanish speaker (with language settings -> Spanish on their settings) will see a nice Spanish buddybar when on their own blog, but when they go to an English blog (the main blog for example) then the buddybar turns to English, even though it is ‘their’ buddybar, with their blogs and links to their profile etc. Is this by design or a bug?

As the community homepage is almost separate from the main blog, it should follow the user-set language as well when loaded.

– As the translation is available, I think the language of the main blog/home theme should change according to the (logged in) user visiting it, else they are lost on the community homepage. However, currently it sticks strictly to the language settings of the main blog.

update: just created ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1245 but would like to hear your thoughts on this as well.

Cheers, Harry

Send Brent a message:

https://buddypress.org/developers/westpointer/

Although you should know that Brent is now helping Boone Gorges on another group forum notification plugin that already has translation support:

http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/10/12/translate-group-forum-subscription-for-buddypress/

the week for the translations have been added?

Please answer https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

Also, are you using a language translation on your site? If so, this particular bug has recently been fixed and will be in the next release of BP.

Wait until next release if you can before customising the text too much. Same reason as my earlier answer about translation. I’m in two minds on how I want to approach it.

Points are collected at the moment, they just aren’t shown anywhere. Any suggestions where?

Feature list I will type when I get home

Finally (before bed), with regards to translations: I could upload the .pot file, or you could generate one yourselves, but I would recommend waiting for the next release.

I may change the way translation and achievement text customisation are / will be handled, so you may end up wasting your time if you rush to do it at the moment.

This of course begs the question as to when the next version will be – probably end of the Sunday 16th – will be working hard in my spare time to try to achieve this.

The only image with text is the one that says “socialnetwork”, but you should change that anyways

If you translate the default theme, that’s all you do – you don’t have to change any of the images *unless you want to*. Good luck!

It may be so that the translation functions for these strings are missing in your releases. You should update to WPMU 2.8.1 (or 2.8.2) and BP 1.0.3 anyways.

WPMU translation files should reside in:

wp-content/languages/

and BP translation files should reside in:

wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-languages/

If you’d like more help, please provide a link to the language files you are using, and where and what strings are not translated.

I’m trying to do this as well, however, it’s not working. I have my buddypress.po and buddypress.mo in my bp-languages folder and I uploaded a new bp-custom.php to the /plugins/ folder however, from there how do I enable the new translation?

I’m using:

<?php

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' );

}

?>

This is all fixed in the latest 1.0 branch if people want to use that. Feel free to make this above change before I release 1.0.4 with these fixes and some other updates.

Apologies for the oversight on translation, it serves me right rushing to get 1.0.3 out for those who had upgraded to 2.8.1!