Yah, chrishajer nailed it!
One of the weirdest adjustments for me using bbPress was figuring out the difference between posts and topics:
* A topic is what bbPress calls the entire thread/discussion.
* A post is what bbPress calls each individual piece of content in the topic – whether it be the first post creating the thread, or a comment on it.
So for example, a newly created thread would count as one topic and one post. If someone comments on it, then it becomes one topic with two posts.
If you ever want to calculate the number of comments per topic, you have to subtract out the first post from the number of posts. So for example, suppose a thread/topic had 12 posts. That actually means that it has one post that started it off, and 11 comments.
At least, that’s how I parse all of this! Good luck with the translations!
Here’s my take on it, but I’m no guru.
- A topic is a collection of posts.
- A post is a single entry related to a topic. A post is also referred to as a reply.
- A discussion is a topic (I believe the two are synonymous.)
- A thread on some boards is a topic on bbPress.
- A forum is a collection of topics related to a subject.
- A bbPress installation can be a group of forums.
I’ve started to translate bbPress into Swedish, using existing translations from previous versions (pre 0.9.0.3) and found that it is more difficult than expected to find exact translations for some very commonly used forum keywords.
The fact that I’ve been on the web since Mosaic 0.9 did – surprisingly not – make this easier…I’ve searched the web but couldn’t find any generic definitions of these words that tell the actual difference between i.e a post, a discussion and a thread. And what also surprises me is that not any translators (or regular forum members) seem to have asked this before.
- topic
- post
- discussion
- (thread)
I’d appreciate if you (bbPress) forum gurus could clearly define what is actually meant with each keyword above. I included the keyword “thread”, although it isn’t used in bbPress.
I realize that a the keywords represent a certain generic forum hierarchy but the definitions would really help me out to finish off the work I’ve started.
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
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:
https://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!
Oh, I checked my webserver’s log and found that my rather obsolete German translation is still downloaded frequently. So I decided to rework it for the latest stable bbPress 0.9.0.4.
You can download my language file on my German blog.
And now for the folks that understand German better than English:
Oha, ich habe einen Blick in die Logdateien meines Webservers geworfen und musste dabei feststellen, dass meine ziemlich veraltete deutsche Übersetzung immer noch häufig heruntergeladen wird. Deshalb habe ich meine Übersetzung für die aktuelle stabile Version 0.9.0.4 von bbPress überarbeitet.
Wer mag, kann meine Sprachdatei in meinem kleinen Blog herunterladen…
Thank you, so much !
I’m updating the italian version of the language file,
i found several mistakes and missing translations in that file.
Would you like to have a copy of file with the right words ?
To edit a .mo file you first need to have the .po version of it.
Then you can edit it with POEDIT
If you don’t have any of those things, first get POEDIT
http://www.poedit.net/download.php
If you only have a .mo file and not the .po but wish to add/edit the translations, you can “decompile” or reverse the .mo file into a .po file from the command line with poedit , ie.
START -> RUN
/program files/poedit/bin/msgunfmt ab_AB.mo > ab_AB.po
So I’ve been digging all through the forums here and I can’t seem to find anything that will work (most threads on the subject are years old)
Anyway, I got everything worked out properly and set the permission translation to give both Editors and Admins in WP Keymaster access.
This isn’t working for whatever reason. I am able to log into bbPress with the account created through WP and set to the proper rights, but it doesn’t give me keymaster access.
Any thoughts before I continue with the next reinstall? 
Thanks in advance!
You men are incredible! Thanks for your efforts for helping people all over the country! I could fix all my problems because of you guys… thanks!
Good Luck!
Also note that you edit the es_ES.po file which then makes the new es_ES.mo file when you save the changed in poedit.
Their es_ES.po is here: http://ayudawordpress.com/descargas/bbpress/bbpress-es_ES.po.zip
The program you need is poedit. http://www.poedit.net/
WordPress has pretty good instructions for doing it, and the process is similar with bbPress:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress
Thanks a lot! Now its working excellent!
But now i have another question… how can i edit some words like: “Maestro de las llaves”… ? in the .mo file so i can change some translation words?.
What program should i use?
Where i can find a guide so to do it?
Thanks!!!
Poedit will automatically re-save the .mo file when you edit and save the .po file by default unless you’ve changed the default settings.
the mo file is in here, it’s all you need
http://ayudawordpress.com/?dl_id=96
in bbPress 0.9 put it into bb-includes/languages/
in bbPress 1.0 put it into my-languages/
and change in your bb-config.php
define('BB_LANG','es_ES');
Bad news… the problem persist…
its the same…
In Ayudawordpress i have found just the .po file… but not the .mo…
so maybe i really have to edit the .mo file… how can i do that? with what program could i edit it ? because notepad or dreamweaver is not reading it good!
Tx.
People!!! Thanks for the replys!
@chrishajer: I have installed the latest stable version of bbPress: The “Brubeck” version 0.9.0.4
@_ck_: I have rebuilded the .po file… (¿do i have to rebuild the .mo file too?…)
I will try with the ayudawordpress.com´s translation… let me test it and i will talk again.
Thanks!
bruinfelix, your bbpress install looks very good and matches your wordpress side – I don’t understand why you don’t like the theme, it works well.
It would be nice if you released the .mo file – all the other bbPress installs that I can find in your country have “hard coded” their templates directly with the translations which is not good.
You’d be helping many other people and giving back to the community. I noticed you are using several of my plugins so it’s good to give back. The more people use bbPress, the more people will convert other WordPress themes.
@kevinjohngallagher
For a answer on youre question, see above 
At the risk or hijacking this thread, given how quickly topics get pushed down the front page, i really wanted to post this link:
Overwriting Template functions
And Bruinfelix, i’d like to urge you to release the language pack to the community even if you are leaving BBpress. Many Thanks. Kev
No, i dont release the file
And during the lack of good theme’s available, i’am planning to uninstall bbPress
I see that you completed this, did you want to share the nl-NL.mo file?
There are about two dozen other Dutch bbPress sites but it looks like they hard-coded their template translations which is a shame.
I’ve translated bbPress in to the Dutch language, no problem at all. I just found a old translation file, and edited a bit. So, evry thing just works just fine
Silly question but did you rebuild the .mo file?
The po/mo on the automattic svn is very outdated and is from 0.8
Try this version which has many more stings, even thought it’s for 1.0 it might work well on 0.9
http://ayudawordpress.com/bbpress-espanol-alpha-104/
What version of bbPress did you install, and which translation?
