Ok, now we need to tell BuddyPress to use your custom language file. That way when you load a page the translation is instantaneous.įinally you upload the files, buddypress-mychanges.po and buddypress-mychanges.mo to the same folder as buddypress.pot was that you first opened. It’s a better and faster file that computers can drill through. mo file is actually the file that WordPress will read. Save your file to something like buddypress-mychanges.po. Make all your changes by scrolling through list of strings and then adding yours below. Poedit allows you to scroll through all the text and then change it.

This file has all the text that can be localized or changed that is located within the BuddyPress default theme. You can find it in the buddypress plugin folder inside bp-languages. Then you click file and choose – New catalog from pot file. WordPress scans through and everywhere ‘buddypress’ is it will swap out the first part with your word from a. The second part ‘buddypress’ is used to say I want anything with this attached to use this language.

The first part ‘Home” is the word or string that can be translated or changed.

You can also change the names of Groups to something else that better suits your network. This allows BuddyPress to be translated into any language just by adding a file. This is what localized text looks like in BuddyPress theme files _e( ‘Home’, ‘buddypress’ ). It’s not that difficult to change words when you know how.

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