1. Which version of WPMU are you running? 2.8.6
2. Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install? directory
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? subdirectory
4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU? If so, from which version? Maybe 
5. Was WPMU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress? I Assume so
6. Which version of BuddyPress (BP) are you running? latest
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? yes, the previous one
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? nope
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? standard
10. Have you modified the core files in any way? I have installed the italian translation
11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? $bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true; Is it still needed? Plus italian translation
12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? built-in
1. Rename slugs by defining global constants in /wp-config.php. Eg:
define ( 'BP_GROUPS_SLUG', 'clubs' );
2. Page titles are generated by bp_page_title(), which is defined in bp-core/bp-core-templatetags.php. It looks to me like they are properly localized, though. Maybe there’s a missing translation in the .po/.mo files? What language are you using?
Found the translation bug.
In bp-events.php, line 2831
add_action ( 'plugins_loaded', 'events_load_textdomain', 9 );
should be
add_action ( 'plugins_loaded', 'events_load_textdomain', 1 );
As it was in 9 priority, it was loaded after
add_action( 'plugins_loaded', 'events_setup_globals', 5 );
That’s why the other strings loaded but not this one.
Merci nexia 
c’est sympa !
Of course i can translate directly in the plugin, but i don’t want to do that…
This said, the plugin needs effectively to be rewriten at his locale level. The function who actually do this is a bit…hum… complicated and .. haaaaaaa….weird. (je reste poli tu vois)
gettext is ok, some of the people who use it not so much (or as well)
WPMU 2.8.6 -> and in june WP 3.0
WP 2.9.1 / 3.0 alpha -> and in june WP 3.0
BP 1.2 -> and in june 1.3 ?
There are so many things to update in the next 6 mounth… yeap !
Meanwhile if somebody could clean the WP plugin repository from the very old/obsoletes stuff it contains it would be great too.
hum, tu peux pas ajouter directement la traduction?… des fois je me demande pourquoi ils utilisent cette technique pour les traductions alors qu’il n’existe aucun logiciel VRAIMENT fiable pour gérer le tout… c’est un enfer.
par ailleurs, il y a plusieurs trucs à mettre à jour puisque WPMU est à 2.9, BP est à 1.2… woo tooooo
Nobody use this plugin in another language as english ?
In bp-events is a tabed option menu (the same as in bp-groups).
Both use the same code :
in bp-groups.php
Line 143 : …=> array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Group Details’, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘position’ => 0 ),
Line 144 : … => array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Group Settings’, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘position’ => 10 ),
Line 145 : … => array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Group Avatar’, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘position’ => 20 ),
Line 146 : … => array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Group Invites’, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘position’ => 30 )
this translate without problem.
in bp-events.php we find the same thing with this string
… __( ‘Events Details’, ‘bp-events’ ) ….
and this is not translated but IS in the po file. All other bp-events strings are translated just not this part !
If somebody has a translated bp-events who works on the create page, i’m interested
Hello,
I’m using wpmu 2.8.6 with bp 1.1.3, but I have some problems with the translation…
I used the .pot file distributed with the plugin and translated to Brazilian Portuguese, but I have a few sentences that I don’t know why they’re not translated cause I’ve translated all the .pot file…
My question is… Does anyone know where can I find these sentences? and… Can I insert these sentences to the English file to translate?
The sentences are:
1. Send To (Username or Friend’s Name) (We find this sentence in the Compose Message)…. However I’ve searched all the messages files and I couldn’t find this sentence… and also… It’s not in the .pot file
2. Sending Message… (We find this when we reply some message)… I have the same problem… I can’t find this sentence anywhere and It’s not in the .pot file
I appreciate some help…
Sorry I don’t have any links but I’m developing in my local machine before I upload everything on my server…
Thanks
ARGH, forget it… the last trunk corrected it… strangely, there was no “My Blogs” menu in the adminbar…
and the translation is wrong also… looks like i will have to write down a real French international language file… nobody is ever able to read/translate properly… rofl *(Only the creation of an user account is permitted)
i’ll have to check further more to see if it was just a glitch…
Hey,
I’m currently running a custom language file on my buddypress site, however with the new items in 1.2 there are now a lot of items which are coming up without translation.
I used PoEdit to make the original changes, will I have to go through and do a complete re-translation, or can I simply add the new phrases to my existing custom language?
Thanks, James
By the way, Dan (Chouf1) has added I18N translation functionality to the plug-in so that will be a part of the next version as well.
Nothing like literal translation, love it. I think I get the jist of it.
You mean that my office smells of machine translation, it is true. I have been following this plugin and have always wished that he had worked on a simple wordpress, but the Internet was not the solution, and wordpress mu I do not like, and I think the engine for social networking little weak (but this is only my personal opinion) , but the plugin itself buddypress can work wonders, but only for a simple wordpress. Of course we are not standing still and slightly altered this plug-in, hard to write him a simple wordpress, but some errors were, and blogs all set up on a different principle. truth will automatically create them failed, but still worked, did not work for some reason, some functions of the transfer of messages between users and groups, and something else. And when I heard that Andrew has decided that the problem of course, turned here, as at present a couple of projects are not ready, just because of the absence of such plagina.Etot plugin will be needed not only to me but I’m sure many other users. I have already raised this issue at one of the forums and site for translators buddypress into Russian Vyacheslav, and very glad that the problem is finally solved
I sense the presence of machine translation.
Is it possible to do merge my old 1.01 BP .po translation file into the new .pot so I don’t have to re-translate the entire file and create it from scratch?
I just need to update 1 or 2 new words (ex: “Update Your Status”) to a customized one, but I don’t want to have to edit the new .pot and make a new .po and lose all my old translation.
If worst comes to worst, I’ll have to create a new .po from scratch.
looking forward to run BP in 2 languages. Do not need the language-translation on the fly (like Google Wave) though…..
In BP 1.0.1 I created my .mo files and bp-custom.php. Will my old translation work with 1.13 or will I have to re-create my .po/.mo files again?
Thanks
How to work with both customized and translation .mo files?
1. I’ve uplaoded an id_ID translation (mo) file and using the multilingual plugin, it’s works.
2. I’ve made a bp-custom.php to change ‘wire’ slug into ‘memo’. It’s working on my translation pages, but not with the default english contents (‘memo’ URL’s are fine, but not with menus and ‘wire’ related texts).
<?php
define( 'BP_WIRE_SLUG', 'memo' );
?>
3. I’ve made a customized PO file (english) to fix this and load the MO language file with bp-custom.php. Now the english language is working (URL’s and contents), but those changes made some of my id_ID translation turns back into english (some ‘memo’ related translation) but the rest translation is fine…
<?php
define( 'BP_WIRE_SLUG', 'memo' );
define( 'BPLANG', 'memomu' );
if ( file_exists( BP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/bp-languages/buddypress-' . BPLANG . '.mo' ) ) {
load_textdomain( 'buddypress', BP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/bp-languages/buddypress-' . BPLANG . '.mo' );
}
?>
Did i made any mistake with those steps?
Is it allright using both customized and translation .mo files?
please help, thanks!
I’ve got a plugin that will do this in some places. Search the WP plugin repo for “BP Translate” and you’ll find it in there. I’m actually working on an update to it now, but give it a download on a test environment and see if it does what you want it to.
Hi all
This may sound a bit wild but I’d like to use buddypress for an international community. So we can get different nationalities talking to each other is their any way (e.g. with plugins or software) that say a Greek person can type a message to an English person in Greek and the Greek translates into English. It’s almost as if on your profile you can select the language you would like to see comments and messages etc.
???
Thanks a lot, Mark
I am translating buddypress into Lithuanian. Since I’m very anxious, I have uploaded incomplete translation to buddypress and set the new default language successfully.
However, after adding some new translated lines and changes to language file, I do not see the changes in buddypress. Removing old translation file and uploading the new one does not help either. The old file is cached somewhere.
Please help
I’m wondering that will involve more people to report translation related issues more easily.
Achievements coming out this weekend. Just going to see if I can get some translations done first. Mainly a compatibility release with current BuddyPress and a few changes to admin interface. Plan is to get another version out just after BP 1.2 with more changes.
ALT tags and title tags of the images that appear on the home page and sub pages of buddypress sites should be taken into to consideration for an SEO plugin, or future core development. Currently my BP site rank far below other sites when you google for the actual dot com, which is also in the title in big letters with the new default bp theme. Unfortuanelty google sees a majority of my site as
“home” and “group avatar”
there should be a way to change / add title and alt tag to the large site title, and the small title in admin bar. I would also experiment with appending the site tite to some of hte other images.. it would be better for me to have:
my-dot-com-home
my-dot-com-group avatar
my-dot-com-groups
my-dot-com-blogs
etc
right now if type in my dot com into google, another site shows number one result, and that site is completely blank – just an empty dot com folder – that’s my first clue that bpress seo is in need of help –
Svenl77 – even with poor english translation – you are very right about all of that – you have certainly done your seo homework!
I know some of the issue is the text content showing in recent sitewide posts is not helping, but pretty much everything else on the page is gravatar images and others that are not helping the front page to rank for it’s keywords – I could take groups and recent active members off the front page and see the effects.
I would love to know where in the theme or code it is controlling the “home” as title of my site title, and group avatar, and blogs, etc – To those alt and title tags are the second biggest seo mistake with buddypress right now –
