How to translate the seach bar at the top

[Şiyar BahadırParticipant 6 Posts @siyarbahadir]

Hello! I translated the register and login buttons at the top of the site, but the search bar still shows “Search Everything” i need to translate it to my language, please help!

[OlivierModerator 1741 Posts @themosaurusrex Themosaurus Support]

Hi @siyarbahadir,

Thank you for reaching back to us! 🙂

You wrote:

Hello! I translated the register and login buttons at the top of the site

How did you translate your navigation bar? Did you translate your website using the provided cera.pot file? If that’s not the case, I suggest that you give a quick look to the following post as it addresses this topic:

Translating Your Theme

Usually, we recommend to rename both files cera-<your-language-code>.mo and cera-<your-language-code>.po. Then, please replace from the file name by the language code of your choice, for instance fr_FR for french.

Finally, the best practice is to move the files in the theme languages directory of your website: wp-content/languages/themes directory. There, you will find the translation for other themes.

This will also ensure that the files will not be lost during any future update.

Cheers,

[Şiyar BahadırParticipant 6 Posts @siyarbahadir]

Hi Olivier, thanks for your response.

I have managed to translate most of the site this way, thanks a lot.

But now i have another problem, ı cannot translate the members search form, where can i find its source file?

[OlivierModerator 1741 Posts @themosaurusrex Themosaurus Support]

Hi @siyarbahadir,

That’s great news! I’m glad to read that your translation process seems to run smoothly.

The strings that you’re looking for need to be translated from the BP Search Profile plugin, as you have discovered. That plugin doesn’t provide any POT file, so we created one with all the strings from that plugin which you can download here:
https://files.themosaurus.com/bp-profile-search/bp-profile-search.pot

Once you have translated the strings you need, you should have a bp-profile-search-en_US.mo and bp-profile-search-en_US.po file that you will place in the wp-content/languages/plugins directory of your site. For other languages than English, please replace en_US from the file name by the language code of your choice, for instance fr_FR for french.

Please keep us updated if this helped you with the translation of your website.

Best regards,

[Şiyar BahadırParticipant 6 Posts @siyarbahadir]

Hi Olivier!
Thanks a lot for the response, the suggestion worked.

[OlivierModerator 1741 Posts @themosaurusrex Themosaurus Support]

Hi @siyarbahadir,

That’s great! I’m glad to read that I’ve been able to help you!

Best,

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