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It looks like it *should* work. Guess we’ll have to wait to here from someone else who has done a translation if they get the problem.

do you have wpmu in greek? save the lang file buddypress-xx_XX.po and the same .mo

xx_XX is language_COUNTRY for example it_IT (italian_ITALY).

bp-groups.php line 1005, right?

'content' => apply_filters( 'bp_groups_created_group_activity', sprintf( __('%s created the group %s', 'buddypress'), $user_link, '<a href="' . $group_link . '">' . $group->name . '</a>') . ' <span class="time-since">%s</span>', $user_link, $group_link, $group->name )

As Arturo’s suggested, check you are working from the .pot file that comes with 1.0. It’s possible it was changed since an older version thus your translation not being applied.

i’m a member of BP Italy and i’ve translated the 1.0 pot file and all is ok the string “… %s created the group %s..” is translated… do you have used the .pot file in the 1.0 zip file?

Liagk-

The primary resource for learning about translating WordPress files is here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress

Also, some helpful forum threads:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=171

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1877

Finally, when you’ve completed your translation, it would nice if you would add and link in the codex: https://codex.buddypress.org/translations/

If you mean a POT file for translation: https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/bp-languages/buddypress.pot

I would also be interested in a language drop down in Spanish and Portuguese and probably could help with the translation if needed

About to start a danish translation of BuddyPress. Currently considering to use either LaunchPad or Pootle as our collaboration tool.

Anyone know if Dreamcolor expects to initiate the LaunchPad project:

https://translations.launchpad.net/buddypress or release the ownership, for others to use it?

Suggestion: why don’t we settle on the same tool to use, eg LaunchPad – would make it easier for other to take part of the work.

For all who are still having this issue. There was a bug fix 3 weeks ago that addressed this issue. See Changeset 1244. All widgets that come with BuddyPress were fixed with this revision.

If you are not running at least BuddyPress r1244, then you will still have issues.

Note: Custom widgets (3rd-party developed widgets), may or may not have implemented this bug fix. Therefore, if you are having translation issues with non-core BP widgets, you will need to contact the developer directly.

Some questions….

1) Remove all your bp widgets. (Done that)

2) Open translation.po

(Where is that file located?)

3) Find bp-core/bp-core-widgets.php (it is mentioned many times and write down the line numbers)

(Didn’t find it….) ??

4) Open mu-plugins/bp-core/bp-core-widgets.php

5) Translate manually the lines where the translation file was supposed to do it.

(Can anyone tell me the line numbers?)

6) re-upload mu-plugins/bp-core/bp-core-widgets.php

7) activate widgets that now will be named on your translation language e.g. “welcome” will be “Bienvenido”

send me a beer!

(Ill send you 20 beers if you help me)

Thanks yall!!

With poedit.

See https://codex.wordpress.org/User:Skippy/Creating_POT_Files

Ah — you mentioned RC1. Then yes, the BuddyPress plugins would be in “mu-plugins” still.

Write in new language to msgstr within buddypress.pot and save as buddypress-spots.mo

Make sure you are creating the MO file from a PO file, which is in turn a copy of the POT that is bundled with BuddyPress.

Your “bp-languages” directory should look something like this:

buddypress.pot

buddypress-mysite.po

buddypress-mysite.mo

If you have trouble editing the POT or PO in a text editor, you can use special software also — see https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress and look for “Translation Tools.” In my opinion those are overkill for this type of thing, though.

Ezra,

When you are editing the language file (after copying the POT to a PO), you will see two lines for each entry: a msgid and a msgstr — the message id and the message string. For example:

msgid "Group Wire"

msgstr "Group Wall"

The important thing is to only edit the message string, not anything else. The message id, as well as the lines above it that indicate which file and line the entry belongs to, are essential for the language translation to work and should not be touched.

The ‘buddypress’ you are talking about is the translation text domain.

I always associated wire with the telegraph. The Swedish translation has it as “kanal”, that’s channel in English. I changed it to “trÃ¥d” which translates to thread. In this context it is however closer to wire as in wireless communication which translates to “trÃ¥dlöskommunikation”. The Swedish word “vajer” simply don’t hold the communication meaning the word has in English.

Hello. Hmmm. Never thought of that. Let me go look at this.

(later)

I don’t see how that is possible. When bp does an ajax call it loads the wp environment and all plugins get fired up including bp. Doing all that loads the translation files if your site is setup that way. The call is in bp-core.php.

Suggest waiting for v1.0 before translating as odds are the readme.txt will be rewritten seeral times before then.

ask Trent.

No side effects that I know of, though our setup is still \”young\” (only been live for just over a month) so I don\’t know the long-term implications yet.

One thing I will mention, though — if you site has been live for a while you\’ll have to do some SQL cleanup in the database to rename things that have been cached (like user activity). For example:

UPDATE wp_bp_activity_sitewide SET content = replace(content,\' wire:\',\' wall:\');

What do you have to do different now that you didn\’t before you had the faux translation?

Actually, the biggest difference is a positive one: instead of hand-changing all the instances of \”Wire\” in the plugin and theme files we keep that in the language file instead. Since the language file (and the bp-custom file) aren\’t in the BuddyPress SVN repo they will never get overwritten when we upgrade.

Ha! I knew it was a good idea. I do have one every once in awhile.

Any side effects of this we should know about Lance? What do you have to do different now that you didn’t before you had the faux translation?