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Language files deleted after upgrading #2


  • Krokkodriljo
    Member

    @krokkodriljo

    13 years ago

    Okay, I just tried to publish a new topic here in the support forum. The topic itself were published but not the message.. so I’ll try again

    After upgrading to BP 1.5.1 (via admin panel) I noticed that my language files (located in /bp-languages) had been deleted.

    That’s not how it is supposed to work, right?

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  • Boone Gorges
    Keymaster

    @boonebgorges

    13 years ago

    That *is* how it’s supposed to work. When you upgrade a WordPress plugin like BuddyPress, everything in the plugin folder is deleted and overwritten by the new content.

    Language files should be stored in wp-content/languages (if you don’t have that directory, create it), where they will not be overwritten during upgrades.


    Krokkodriljo
    Member

    @krokkodriljo

    13 years ago

    Thanks, Boone!


    agent314
    Member

    @agent314

    13 years ago

    I did this thinking that it would work like a child theme, but nothing seems to change… so I am assuming this is just for “storage”… ?

    wp-content/languages/buddypress.pot

    I’ve made a couple of changes in the language file but don’t see them on the site. No caching used.


    Paul Wong-Gibbs
    Keymaster

    @djpaul

    13 years ago

    You need to convert that .pot into a .mo file.


    Boone Gorges
    Keymaster

    @boonebgorges

    13 years ago

    > You need to convert that .pot into a .mo file.

    I think that you also need to change the file name so that it includes a text domain, and then specify that textdomain in your config file. Eg, buddypress-BBG.mo, and `define( ‘WPLANG’, ‘BBG’ );` (I think.)


    r-a-y
    Keymaster

    @r-a-y

    13 years ago

    Read this codex article to properly customize language files for BuddyPress:
    https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

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