Translation files not working

Hi the .po and .mo files inside languages folder are not working, I think it is because they are missing the textdomain in the .po file.

Shouldn’t it be:

#@ bp-invite-anyone
#: group-invites/templates/invite-anyone.php:35
#: group-invites/templates/invite-anyone.php:126
msgid "Select members from the directory:"

Instead of:

#: group-invites/group-invites.php:219
#: group-invites/group-invites.php:314
msgid "Select members from the directory:"

Also changing the filenames invite-anyone.po/.mo to bp-invite-anyone.po/.mo would be helpful when working with translation plugins such as https://wordpress.org/plugins/codestyling-localization/, since by default this plugin searches for bp-invite-anyone.po and it can’t find a custom name such as invite-anyone.po.

It is also good practice to use this naming convention according to WordPress:

load_plugin_textdomain

The .mo file should be named based on the domain followed by a dash, and then the locale exactly.

I had to use the following workaround to get it working (for Spanish only, if you need other languages repeat the process changing the locale part es_ES):
cp wp-content/plugins/invite-anyone/languages/invite-anyone-es_ES.po wp-content/plugins/invite-anyone/languages/bp-invite-anyone-es_ES.po

Using plugin codestyling localization, go to Tools > Localization, search for invite anyone, a Spanish file will appear now since we copied it manually before. Click on Scan again, this will add the missing textdomain ID to each string:

#@ bp-invite-anyone

Then clic on Edit, change translations as desired and clic on generate mo-file.

Add this to your theme’s functions.php file:

if( !function_exists( 'cp_load_theme_textdomain' ) ) {
	function cp_load_theme_textdomain(){

		unload_textdomain('bp-invite-anyone');
		load_plugin_textdomain('bp-invite-anyone', false, '../languages/plugins/');

	}
	add_action('after_setup_theme', 'cp_load_theme_textdomain');
}

And move the files we have created to a new location where they will not be lost when updating the plugin:

mv wp-content/plugins/invite-anyone/languages/bp-invite-anyone-es_ES.* wp-content/languages/plugins/

The drawback is that if we need to edit translations again, we need to move them back to wp-content/plugins/invite-anyone/languages/ for codestyling localization to find them.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/invite-anyone/