I changed bbpress.php load_textdomain() function (line 524 ATM).

public function load_textdomain() {

// Allow locale to be filtered
$locale = apply_filters( 'bbpress_locale', get_locale() );

// Get mo file name
$mofile = sprintf( 'bbpress-tr_TR.mo', $locale );

// Setup paths to current locale file
$mofile_local = $this->lang_dir . '/' . $mofile;
$mofile_global = WP_LANG_DIR . '/bbpress/' . $mofile;

// Look in local /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-languages/ folder
if ( file_exists( $mofile_local ) )
return load_textdomain( 'bbpress-tr_TR.po', $mofile_local );

// Look in global /wp-content/languages/ folder
elseif ( file_exists( $mofile_global ) )
return load_textdomain( 'bbpress-tr_TR.po', $mofile_global );

// Nothing found
return false;
}

I use bbpress plugin 2.0.1
My WP version is 3.2.1

%100 I did somethinh wrong because my english is not very good.
What can be going wrong?

Thank you.

@Moddey: your first try should have worked (look at Vayu's solution). It's normal that nothing changes if you edit the pot file: pot files are like "translation sources", po files are the translated version in a human readable form, mo files are their machine-readable form. So tou should need only bbpress-da_DK.mo in your /wp-content/languages/bbpress/ directory.
Are you sure the file permissions are ok and the web server can read them?

This worked for me finally. :-)

So I have these 2 files here like this:

/wp-content/languages/bbpress/bbpress-da_DK.mo
/wp-content/languages/bbpress/bbpress-da_DK.po

Nothing else.

Vayu

I also put them in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-languages and I removed the bbpress.pot file from that dir just to see what would happen.

I even edited some Danish into bbpress.pot just to see would that help. But alas still no local language :-(

Do you mean that $mofile should be actually set to bbpress-dk_dk.mo ? or should it just be bbpress-%s.mo.

Moddey

In-depth version: in bbpress.php you can find the load_textdomain() function (line 524 ATM). There you can see it gets the WordPress locale, then uses it to compose the language filename in the $mofile variable. $mofile in our example case is set to 'bbpress-it_IT.mo', and this filename is looked for in the 'wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-languages' directory first (which, as index.php says, should not be used), and then in the 'wp-content/languages/bbpress/' directory. Just put it there named like we found before and you're done.

Takker

Moddey

To download your language file from glotpress
http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin

You have to be logged in.
Click into your language section. At the bottom of the page you can export the language file.

Same as Vayu here, except I have not downloaded the language file from Glotpress, I am using the last version.

Other than that everything else is exactly the same.

Moddey

I have my WordPress translation files here: /wp-content/languages/ and my WP installation is translated perfectly.

I have placed my bbPress plugin language files here:

/wp-content/languages/bbpress/da_DK.mo
/wp-content/languages/bbpress/da_DK.po

I have this in my wp-config.php:

define('WPLANG', 'da_DK');

I have downloaded the language file from Glotpress.

http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/da/default

Wonder what can be going wrong??

Thanks
Vayu

/wp-content/languages/

your bbPress translation files in:

/wp-content/languages/bbpress/

and then:

define('WPLANG', 'es_ES');

in your wp-config.php, replacing es_ES with your language code.

If you're language is English, then you don't need to do anything.

I've tried all combinations of file placement and am using this:

define('WPLANG', 'en_US');

define('BBLANG', 'en_US');

I used define('BBLANG', 'hethen'); in wp-config and also placed the .mo file in wp-content/languages and in bbpress/bbp-languages/

I have now searched the internet (yes all of it I think) and it seems there is a lot of confusion about bbpress and how to change languages.

Has anyone got this to work in version 2.0 (Plugin) ?

Here is what I have tried so far :
1: mo and po files uploaded to /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-languages
2: Looked in and edited a lot of php files.
3. Checked nearly every file in my themes folder (Suffusion).
4. Have been in discussion with Suffusion theme forum.

None of the above has helped in any way :-(

My wordpress is showing the correct language, which is great. A major problem is the Forum is not. I currently have the site offline for now. But it should be up again before the start of next week (well thats what I have told the users) :-)

I am not sure if what I did is correct. I can't seem to do this in all my themes. And I can't seem to find out why.

I am also interested in finding a solution that actually works. :-)

add_action('after_setup_theme', 'my_theme_setup');
function my_theme_setup(){
load_theme_textdomain('bbpress', get_template_directory() . '/languages');
}
Do I have to do that ?

TIA
Moddey

Cheers
Vayu

I am not sure your right about this. In the index.php file in bbpress/bbp-languages/index.php it says the following.

"Do not put custom translations here. They will be deleted on bbPress updates.
Keep custom bbPress translations in /wp-content/languages/"

I first tried to place my language files in bbp-languages folder and it did't work.

When you do as I explained both the theme and bbpress will be translated. That's what you want isn't it?

I did notice the date of the post, but people might find my answer helpful even if migueltavares is not looking for help on this anymore.

Vayu

Add this to your functions.php file in you theme.

add_action('after_setup_theme', 'my_theme_setup');
function my_theme_setup(){
load_theme_textdomain('bbpress', get_template_directory() . '/languages');
}

Then place your language files ind the at folder in your theme folder.

Vayu

So for all German users I have the language files ready for download - in formal (SIE) and informal (DU) version. Both were tested/used in production environments so should work like a charm.

Just DOWNLOAD here:
http://ddwb.me/1c#bbpress-plugin

Have fun, Dave from Germany :)

Where should the files be uploaded to?

Any help?

And use this in my functions.php (in my theme):
[code]
function theme_init(){
load_theme_textdomain('community', get_template_directory() . '/languages');
}
add_action ('init', 'theme_init');
[/code]

Finally registered but around for a while. Big thanks for having released bbpress as a plugin!

I've just installed the plugin for 2 blogs under WPMU. One blog in english and the other french.
When creating the fr_FR.mo, nothing happens. Already changed the admin labels and it remains in english.

Any suggetion or is this a known-issue?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Isabelle,