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BP translation file goes to wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-de_DE.mo

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When you search strings, open the .pot file provided with almost any theme and plugin for translation.
In this text format file, you will find (if exist) the string and ALSO the file and the line # where it is used.

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Hey @idichoo,

It’s awesome you’d like to help with BuddyPress translation! Happy to help you get started with translating on http://translate.wordpress.org. I’m Petya on wp Slack.

If you’d like to get started on your own, this is the best page: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/about/get-involved/first-steps/

BuddyPress could use a Project Translation Editor for Chinese as well, so if you’d like to become one, you can post a request on https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots and we’ll put you in touch with the Chinese General Translation Editors so they can add you as a project maintainer.

P.S. If you’d like to help the team with something quick, you can give us a hand with translating the WordPress 4.6 release video to Chinese! http://www.amara.org/en/videos/HD0Z715enyuZ/id/1429554/

Yep, you’re right, the forced translation comes only if you reload the page.

That’s the dark side of a dirt trick. 😉

Now, in a very real use case, this wouldn’t happen very often for not saying never. Most users will (hopefully for you) favorite activities, but i don’t believe that many will favorite and suddenly decide to unfavorite all their stuff and will restart immediatly to fav…

If you don’t agree with this, you still have the possibility to change text in the template or to use the po/mo file.

In witch language is your site ?

Don’t hack core files. (never !) Which language do you use ?

Where have you done this ?
I’ve took a look at the files and found out that the working ones are using __( "Foo %s", "buddypress" ) and the wrong ones are using _x( "Foo %s", "Blah blah blah", "buddypress" ).

Actually all BP strings are working. If you need custom translation, you have to do that in po/mo and to use preferably the original strings. For example, if you build a template and want to use the notification count on it, you copy the original string to your work. If you don’t do that, you nedd 2 po/mo ! One for BP and one for your custom work. Which is certainly not the best and easiest solution.

The notification count is defined in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-notifications/classes/class-bp-notification-component.php

The counter itself is inside a span and is defined separately.

/* translators: %s: Unread notification count for the current user */
_x( 'Notifications %s', 'Profile screen nav', 'buddypress' ),
sprintf(
	'<span class="%s">%s</span>',

The bla bla bla part you mention is a comment for translators who indicates him the context. This comment appears in the pot file like: Notification %s [Profile screen nav]

That’s BP’s default coding. You haven’t to modify this. Use it as is.

If you have difficulty to translate such a string, you have to check your theme or any custom function you added (by hand or another plugin).

The corresponding custom string should reflect the original one as gettext function wouldn’t translate a string which is not identic.

__( "Foo %s", "buddypress" ) and _x( "Foo %s", "Blah blah blah", "buddypress" ) are both working, and do technicaly the same thing (foo = something) which let you modify “foo” in both case, but as the original string is _x( "Foo %s", "Blah blah blah", "buddypress" ), you couldn’t replace it with __( "Foo %s", "buddypress" ). It is the translation prefix (_x or __) which is the important thing here.

Hope to be clear. And you’re right, unfortunately your changes will be overwriten at next BP update as you hacked core files.

(I’ve asked https://profiles.wordpress.org/petya to reach out to @idichoo to help get started with translations)

Hello,

I have the same problem here. I use WP 4.5.3 and the Theme Woffice from ThemeForest and BuddyPress 2.6.2. I translate all with the plugin Loco Translate but some translations are not working. There ist nothing to repair. What can I do? Any idea?

Best regards

Marco

Get in touch with the chinese translation team:

Translation Teams

You don’t need to download GlotPress, you can translate BP online. Just go to https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/stable/zh-cn/default and log-in.

And read the translators handbook to learn more about translating WordPress, plugins and themes.

If you prefer to read in chinese, see here: https://cn.wordpress.org/

Please don’t double post! You already asked for this and get an answer here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-translation-editors-contributors/#post-257318

The Notifications %s string looks like it is available:
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress/tags/2.6.1.1/buddypress.pot

If you’re using a custom translation from a previous version, you need to merge your language files together. Here’s a quick tutorial I found on Google:
http://www.marketpressthemes.com/blog/how-to-merge-two-po-files-using-poedit/

You might also benefit from a translation that is already available here:
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress

Re-check your po file and see if the original word hasn’t a count beside it. Something like Members %s. Many translation are omitting this or use an erroneous variable ( something like % or %d or…nothing). In any case, the translation should contain, if exist in the original, such variables.
Same remark if you use plugins or a theme who modify the menu.

You can also check for the new nav API examples you could eventually help you to rename the items, but only if nothing goes to work with translation itself.

@socialc, since 2.6 and the new Nav API, there is a much simplier possibility as the translation file to change nav item names.

@marcono, try this; not sure you learned, below snippet is on Nav API examples i indicated previously. 😉

function bpcodex_rename_group_tabs() {

    if ( ! bp_is_group() ) {
        return;
    }
   
    buddypress()->groups->nav->edit_nav( array( 'name' => __( 'Group Discussion', 'buddypress' ) ), 'forum', bp_current_item() );
}
add_action( 'bp_actions', 'bpcodex_rename_group_tabs' );

function bpcodex_rename_profile_tabs() {
 
      buddypress()->members->nav->edit_nav( array( 'name' => __( 'My Buddy Forums', 'textdomain' ) ), 'forums' );
      buddypress()->members->nav->edit_nav( array( 'name' => __( 'My Buddy Groups', 'textdomain' ) ), 'groups' );
 
}
add_action( 'bp_actions', 'bpcodex_rename_profile_tabs' );

@marcono you might want to read this page and consider making a translation file of your own.

The Danish translation is not complete… so the automatic translation doesn’t work.

Read from here to go further:

Languages and Translations

positionning: check CSS pseudo class :before or :after

buddypress.pot: this file does nothing! It contains only the strings you can translate. If you need a translation, you have to create a po and a compiled mo file. To do this you need a tool like poEdit.

Any code placed in bp-custom.php stays untouched after an update. It works like a child-theme.

Hi jangolin
Thanks for your reply – KLEO Theme language files are there…
Problem I have is finding how to make buddypress find the Danish translations .po and .mo I have in wp-content/languages/plugins/
I have no problems with other plugins only buddypress….

Using v 2.6.1.1
I do NOT have a folder: wp-content/buddypress/languages/
And I DID add the .po and .mo to wp-content/languages/plugins/
I am not using loco translate

Have checked po language files and translation is still there….

@hisselfandco,

you used the wrong directory for translation.

The directory to use IS NOT wp-content/buddypress/languages/

if you manually upload a po/mo for BP, add it to

wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-xx_XX.mo / po

Thanks for the tip
Using KLEO theme – can see that the language file is still there.
Still having problems with getting buddypress to find the translations….

Having same problem with Danish language.
Have added both .mo and .po to wp-content/buddypress/languages/ but can’t see the translations…
However, bbpress seems to be getting the translations OK …