CUNY Academic Commons

Hi Chris,

Do you have time to handle this? I know that time is getting tight for you right now, so no worries if not. But I think that Sarah's request makes a lot of sense. A short explanation that only CUNY Commons users can be added to blogs is needed. This page can be found in the WordPress dashboard under Users > Add New

Matt

Boone, I looked into the custom language and it's an interesting option. The po and mo files are a bit confusing at first. The main issue with the approach you outlined is that buddypress is good about defining a domain for all of the text it makes available for translation. They put the 'buddypress' domain on everything, for example
_e('Enable discussion forum', 'buddypress')

Wordpress hasn't done that
__( 'You can add new users to your blog in two ways:' )

So I had to modify the core WP code for user-new.php but I tried adding a domain to them for that page instead of just changing the text in user-new.php, ie:
__( 'You can add new users to your blog in two ways:', 'wordpress' )

Then I added a .mo and .po file in wp-content/languages (had to create the languages folder)

Then in wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php I added the code to load the .mo file for the wordpress text domain.

Does this seem like a good way to do this kind of thing going forward? And are these good places for the files?

OK, I got it to work. There are a couple small gotchas I should mention that gave me some fits. The big one is that, as far as I can tell, in order for the changes to take place you need two things:
1. .mo (and maybe .po) files that have one of the recognized language abbreviations in front
2. Change the settings in Dashboard to the language you're using (Settings->General then Blog language dropdown).

Number one is what took me the longest to figure out. I had named my files commons.po and then changed the wp-config but nothing happened. Read about changing the Dashboard settings but the language wouldn't show up even with making sure to define the language correctly in the .po comments.

When I changed the name to en_CAC then a second English shows up in the language dropdown in General->Settings. I don't know if there is away around this to call it something other than English but that seemed the best option rather than some other language.

There is another place to set the language in the dashboard Site Admin -> Options then scroll down to default language. I forgot to mention this in the commit message.

I've played around with this a bit and basically General->Settings controls the current blog, while Site Admin -> Options controls general site settings.

The problem for us is that the blog settings override the site language settings. Also changing the site settings doesn't effect any change in the existing blogs. This means that to see the changes we've made to the language file all of the existing blog users would have to go into their blog's dashboard and change the language to the second English. (all new blogs will get the new default language).

The only other option (besides changing core files) is to somehow do an update to the DB to change people's language for them.

This stuff also raises the question of whether we are going to allow people to make their blogs in languages other than English? That would require making similar changes to that po/mo file as we did for the English one.

A final weird sidenote is that you don't seem to have to change wp-config and do the
define ('WPLANG', 'en_CAC');
thing. It seems to work with or with out this.

This one got snuck into 1.0 somehow :)