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Do I need to translate WPMU first ?

Look in the link that DJPaul provided. There is a WordPress translation of Arabic already. I’m not sure what additional work you’d have to do for WPMU. Most likely translation of some of the admin pages. But, I’m not a localization expert.

What will be different because Arabic is RTL language ?

As long as the themes that Arabic users are using properly reference some type of right to left CSS file, then this should not be an issue. Look at rtl.css to see how that works.

Also, look at this relevant BuddyPress thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=245

Check out https://codex.buddypress.org/translations/ for starters – there’s a link taking you over to the main WordPress site with further details.

Hey, I translated BuddyPress yesterday!

You can find my translation here: https://codex.buddypress.org/translations/greek-ellinika-el_gr/

I hope you like it, because I was exhausted after the hours I spent working on it.

P.S. Ki egw Ellhnas eimai.

from the WP org codex:

Using Localizations

In order to localize your installation of wordpress, create a directory named languages inside of wp-includes, if it does not already exist. Then grab the appropriate localization files from the Subversion Repository as described above. The main .mo file for the language should go inside the languages directory. Set WPLANG inside of wp-config.php to your chosen language. For example, if you wanted to use french, you would have:

define (‘WPLANG’, ‘fr_FR’);

i’ve this configuration on my MU+BP and all works fine.

The WordPress MU language file should be in /wp-includes/languages/ and you can change the language in your admin section of your wpmu install.

The BuddyPress language file (buddypress-xx_XX.mo) should be in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bb-languages/ the xx_XX should be the same as on the file in /wp-includes/languages/ since BP gets the language setting from WPMU…

You don\’t have to edit anything in your wp-config.php file!

All of this is for WordPress MU 2.7.1 and BuddyPress 1.0. I don’t know how it is with older versions…

HTH

Regards,

RuneG

Kogigr now you have buddypress-el_GR.po and buddypress-el_GR.mo in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-languages/ right?

in wp-config.php insert on line #77

define (\’WPLANG\’, \’el_GR\’);

and save…

I think this should resolve (BP side), however, looks for the translation of MU in greek.

@Kogigr;

AFAIK, you have to use the same language in WPMU as in BuddyPress. BuddyPress gets the language setting from WPMU. There is some info about the greek WPMU translation here, but I don’t read greek, so it’s not necessarily the info you need

But you’ve named the file(s) right, you only need the .mo file in your bp-languages folder.

So basically you need to use the same language in WPMU that you want to use in BP. So get the greek WPMU translation, upload it to you WPMU install, and change the language in you admin section…

HTH

Regards,

RuneG

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!!