change the message

  • This is getting big time on my nerves already, as it just seems impossible to change that simple line of text

    “Invite friends to join %s by following these steps:”

    I tried with the pot file, the plugin does not give 2 cents about that, keeps pulling from an unidentified location the same old message!

    How can we customize that for God sake?

    (sorry, but my nerves are cracking already .. for any little damn thing one needs to spends HOURS & HOURS!)

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  • Plugin Author Boone Gorges

    (@boonebgorges)

    The line of text is in the .pot file. I just tested with a French translation, and it is being properly translated.

    It’s possible that you mean the widget text, which is “Invite friends to join the site by entering their email addresses below”. That text is changed on Dashboard > Widgets.

    If you are desperate, and can’t figure out how to make the language pack work, you can change the text directly: invite-anyone/by-email/by-email.php, around line 503.

    For what it’s worth, when you spend hours and hours getting frustrated about an issue, and then you post a support message that makes you sound angry and frustrated, it doesn’t really help your case. I write and support this plugin for free (I get about $10 a month in donations, if I’m lucky). Messages like yours make me want to throw up my hands and not give my time anymore. A few kind words, on the other hand, can be a great reward for someone like me who has given HOURS & HOURS of his own time so that people like you could use this free piece of software.

    Also, you might try posting BuddyPress-related support questions in the BP support forums: https://buddypress.org/support. There are more BP-knowledgeable folks there.

    Thread Starter candy2012

    (@candy2012)

    Ah! That done the trick! This I mean: invite-anyone/by-email/by-email.php

    Was actually the English file I was trying to change, and although I have changed the texts in teh provided pot file, that had no effect on the frontend ??

    Thank you v. much and sorry for the frustrated tone, I was indeed very frustrated, as I am diggind since 2 hours through files trying to make really tiny little chages like this one. Sometimes even the strongest nerves cannot cope with it anymore …

    Tell you the truth, was the last file I would have checked (because of the name …)

    Will give you a 5 star on WordPress instead of the missed kind words -)
    Actually, it’s a great plugin!

    Plugin Author Boone Gorges

    (@boonebgorges)

    Glad you got it figured out ??

    A tip about language files: Even though you are using English on your site, you still have to create a separate .mo/.po file for each plugin you want to customize, and set your WP_LANG value to something other than en_EN. Otherwise the language file does nothing.

    Another little tip for this kind of thing: if you’re on Linux or a Mac, you can use the function ‘grep’ to find things like this. For instance:
    cd /path/to/wp/wp-content/plugins/invite-anyone
    grep -nR ‘Invite friends to join’ .

    Good luck using the plugin!

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