2 bugs using Polylang: menu disappearing, new images not showing in editor

pro99
(@pro99)

7 years, 2 months ago

Hi, I installed Polylang yesterday and overall it seems to be working, at the exception of 2 bugs. The first is the navigation menu disappeared after activating Polylang. Re-saving the menu fixed the problem. The second issue is stickier: new images don’t show in the post editor but they do in the media editor. If I deactivate Polylang, the problem goes away instantly.
Screen recording: https://youtu.be/h7mGoEvsF_s

Thanks!

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Plugin Author Chouby
(@chouby)

7 years, 2 months ago

Hi,

Most probably, the media translation is selected in Polylang settings but your media don’t have a language or a language different from the post you are currently editing (you can check that in the list view of the media library). When you edit a post, Polylang shows you only the images in the language of the post that you are currently editing.

Thread Starter pro99
(@pro99)

7 years, 2 months ago

Thanks @chouby. I re-activated the plugin to see if the photos acquired a language setting, and they are set to English by default, which is the language of the post I uploaded them from.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RwnsQZGyFqHZ0x568MD_T2DY2ktSn7vQ/view?usp=sharing

Plugin Author Chouby
(@chouby)

7 years, 2 months ago

There are several cases.

If you upload the media from the media library, the language assigned is:
* the default language if the admin language filter shows all languages.
* the language selected in the admin language filter otherwise.

If you upload the media while editing a post, the language assigned is the language of the current post being edited.

Thread Starter pro99
(@pro99)

7 years, 2 months ago

Thanks. Alas these images aren’t showing when Polylang is activated. This is a pretty standard WordPress install, so not sure why this is occurring since there is a language set for these image files. Would you like to take a look? Happy to share a WordPress login privately if helpful.
Roland Beaussant
(@rolandito-bcn)

7 years ago
Hi, I have a similar issue with medias.

First I must say I moved translations form WPML to Polylang with your dedicated plugin.
The issue was already there in WPML, even worst:
All images uploaded in wordpress were not showing afterwards in the media library although they were in the uploads folders.
So I couldn’t reuse images in other languages and had to upload them again and again.

I was hopping to solve this by changing to polylang, but it didn’t do it 100%:
Now I can see images in the media library, but not always in the editor, although I have Media translations deactivated in settings.

In English (main language) it’s working fine and I can see them in media and editor.
But in secondary language, I can’t see any uploaded images in the editor, and I noticed that they don’t have any asigned language in the media library.

Thanks in advance for your help.

If you need I can do a video like pro99 to illustrate the situation.

Regards

Roland
- This reply was modified 7 years ago by Roland Beaussant.
codestylist
(@codestylist)

7 years ago

If you see the media in english post but not in Spanish it means you didn’t “translate” the media files. A Post is language related. In the media selector you see only the media which are linked to the same languages of the post.

alahdal262
(@alahdal262)

6 years, 8 months ago

I have the same problem and looking a lot but I could not find any solutions
although I added it indepently and translated the means in the same language but did not appear it in first page of front

demielune
(@demielune)

6 years, 7 months ago

Found an answer here: https://polylang.pro/doc/working-with-media/
🙂

jorgeduarte
(@jorgeduarte)

6 years, 2 months ago

@demielune
Thank you!