Translating to French

[Normand]

Hello,
I would like to translate my website in French.
I followed instructions on your videos and support…
I have copied the .po & .mo in the child theme language folder (see enclosed image)
(And I also added a sub folder for buddy press traduction files)
Nothing has changed since.
Do I have to do or activate something else ?
(please note that I’m a novice with wp and do not know coding)
thanks
France

[Anonymous]

Hi @france, Please put those files inside language directory wp-content/languages/plugins/ folder.

Regards

[Normand]

Thanks for the info,
but it looks like I do not have the same structure…(I do not have the folder «language» directly inside the wp-content folder, it is inside the child theme)

Here is where I put the files (and what my structure looks like) :
wp-content/themes/boss-child/languages/
It was suggested in your tutorial videos that we place the files inside the child theme (not the boos theme) to protect the website traduction when the next theme update will be done.

Still need some help,
Thanks

[Jean-Pierre Michaud]

hum, Normand, pourquoi vouloir “traduire” ton site en Français… le thème Boss est déjà traduit litéralement en français, et tu peux installer WordPress en français si ce n’est pas déjà fait.

je te l’assure, il n’est pas supposé y avoir de problème… c’est moi le traducteur du fichier français, et je viens encore de vérifier, il est en place: wp-content/themes/boss/languages/fr_FR.mo

[Jean-Pierre Michaud]

lorsque tu vas dans la page d’admin pour mettre à jour WordPress, si ta configuration est Français, les fichiers de Buddypress devraient se mettre à jour par la même occasion…

[Normand]

Bonjour Jean-Pierre,
Oui, c’est ce que je voulais dire… je veux que le site soit en français et utiliser les traductions existantes (je n’aurais pas du utiliser le terme «traduire») 🙂
Mais je ne sais pas comment faire pour activer la langue française….

J’avais débuté le site en anglais et j’ai maintenant changé les préférences de wordpress (sous paramètres/général) pour «français du Canada», alors wordpress est maintenant en français. Mais pour «Boss» et BuddyPress» je ne sais pas comment faire.

Si tu es en mesure de m’aiguiller ce serait apprécié.

Merci !

[Normand]

Hello Pallavi,

Still need your help with this.
As I explained in french to Jean-Pierre… I should have said that I wanted to activate the french language (to replace the english language) for my website (instead of using the «translate» term).
I checked what Jean-Pierre suggested : .mo and .po files seem to be at the right place (wp-content/themes/boss/languages/fr_FR.mo).
I have changed my wordpress settings in french (from the admin) and this portion is ok (wp is now in french).
But the «Boss» and the «BuddyPress» still show in english.
Thank you in advance for your help,

[Normand]

Hi Pallavi,

If anyone can help me with this, I would really appreciate.
Just need this language thing to be done before going to the beta testing of the website with members.

Thanks !

[Anonymous]

Hi @france, You can easily translate it through Loco Translate plugin

just install the plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/

Go to plugin option
Select the Plugin Buddypress and theme Boss, and change the strings..

For help:
https://localise.biz/help/wordpress/translate-plugin/beginners

Regards

[Normand]

Thank you so much,
I think I’m on the way to the solution
(the Beginners help link is helping a lot)

You can now close this thread 🙂

[Normand]

Not really… I still need your help !

I found out it was the folder permissions that was my main problem.

But now the translation is very partial.

Some words in french, a lot still in english. And it looks like the portion of the BuddyPress that is not working.

I did place the .po and .mo files of the BuddyPress in the « wp-content/languages/plugins/ » as you suggested… but no result.

Will be waiting for your advice,

Thanks

[Normand]

Wow
Almost everything is working this morning !
You can close this thread
I think I will open a new one if there is necessity 🙂

Thanks again

[Anonymous]

Glad it worked 🙂