How change tab label "New Feed"?

[Brandan Hadlock]

For my site I want to change the tab label “News Feed” to something else. I had thought to use localization to make the change, however, using the CodeStyling Localization plugin, I see both “Wall” and “My Likes”, but not “News Feed.” How can I change the News Feed label or get it to show up in the .po file?

[Alyssa]

@block4 Welcome to the BuddyBoss community! I’m sorry to say we forgot to add these to the language file. For now you will need to edit includes/main-class.php line 66-69 manually. We will get this fixed for the next minor release. If not please post back and I’ll make sure the developers get in the one after that.

[Brandan Hadlock]

Thanks TJ. Editing the source file worked. Since BuddyBoss Wall isn’t in the wordpress.org repository, how will I know when the next release comes out?

[Anonymous]

@block4 Fixed locally. You’ll know when the next release comes out the same way as a regular WP plugin. We have a system that pushes updates in the same way. You’ll see the plugin update available in you WP admin and when you click update it will download the next release 🙂

[Brandan Hadlock]

Yep, saw through the normal way that their was an update. After updating I saw that “News Feed” had been added to the language file, so thanks for that. Strangely though, even though I added a “translation” for Wall and Newsfeed, and the .mo file was generated, the translations do not display on the user’s wall. Additionally, now if I update the code in includes/main-class.php, the words in the tab do not update. I deleted the plugin and reinstalled version 1.0.1 and updated the code as directed, and the tab label updated. Then I updated the plugin again to 1.0.2 and updated the code as directed, and the tab label did not change.

[Milena]

Hi guys,
@tjchester @michael
I think my question is related to this one.

I am translating the theme and the plugin- but I cannot translate these strings-
Wall
News Feed
My Likes

I found and translated “wall” and “my likes” (and “news feed” – after the update) but the translation is not showing on the front end.

there are a few other strings that I can’t seem to find ( “posted a picture”, you (%s posted an update) etc).

See what I mean HERE. Whatever is still in ENG is untranslatable.

Secondly –
How do I update without loosing the languages now that there are separated plugins. Is there a way to define the source of languages for the plugin- to come from the child theme, like with the theme languages?

Make sure you see this exact line uncommented in the functions.php file in your child theme: load_theme_textdomain( ‘buddyboss’, get_stylesheet_directory() . ‘/languages’ );. That line tells WordPress to load your child theme’s language files in place of the parent theme’s language files. If you see the textdomain written as ‘buddyboss_child’, for this method you will want to change it to read as ‘buddyboss’.

from https://www.buddyboss.com/tutorials/language-translations/.

so far everytime I updated the plugins I had to manually upload the language files.

thanks.

Milena

[Ivan]

It looks like there is a problem in the code (bad references for Wall, News Feeds and My Likes strings) as they do not work even if you have translations for them in the .PO file.

I have sent that info to Michel’s email along with updated .POs for both Wall and Media plugins.

[Alyssa]

@block4 @milena @imdyakov these will be fixed in the next release. In the meantime you can edit the files manually includes/main-class.php line 66-69

[Brandan Hadlock]

Glad to hear this will be fixed.

As stated above: “now if I update the code in includes/main-class.php, the words in the tab do not update”.

[Alyssa]

@block4 @milena @imdyakov CORRECTION these will be fixed in the next release. In the meantime you can edit the files manually includes/main-class.php line 267-270

[Ivan]

Thanks TJ. Looking forward for an update.

[Milena]

Hi @tjchester,

I was wondering about the update, is it about to be available soon?

Also what exactly do I update manually?

@block4 @milena @imdyakov CORRECTION these will be fixed in the next release. In the meantime you can edit the files manually includes/main-class.php line 267-270

I can see the English strings for
Wall
News Feed
My Likes
in the translation file, but whatever I translate is not showing up.

Milena

[Alyssa]

@milena you will need to edit the PHP file manually until the next release. I’m not sure when that will be.

[Milena]

Hi there @tjchester,

So you mean I should translate the strings in the php file…?

[Alyssa]

@milena yes, translate the string in the file directly.