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How to translate bbPress to another language

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I need to translate bbPress user interface to Greek.

    I try to find another language file so I can translate it.

    I try to find English language file in the language files repository which is in http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/ but I find not such file.. Any ideas?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    There's a good overview of bbPress' translation framework (with links to existing translations and to useful posts) on bbshowcase.org:
    http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-translation-internationalization-into-local-languages

    According to that, bbPress uses the same translation approach as WordPress:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress#gettext_files

    The approach seems to be:
    1) You download the POT file, which has all the English strings in it.
    2) You translate the strings into your language (Greek) and save the file as a .po file
    3) You optimize the .po file into a machine readable .mo file

    Looks like you can get the bbPress POT file for whichever version you're using here:
    http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/pot/tags/

    Good luck!

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Many thanks John, this is awesome advice.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi,

    I just found this post and I would like to participate in the translation of bbPress ..
    If someone already started any translation and reads this .. well, reply to this so we can talk.

    Kostas

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    if you use poedit it generate automatically .mo when you save the .po

    i use it to translate bbpress, wpmu and buddypress ;)

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi all,
    is there a greek version of bbPress available now, or do I have to follow the above procedure?

    Thanks
    Stella

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    This is the best source of information I know of, and I don't see a greek translation here:
    http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-translation-internationalization-into-local-languages

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