Kale and Polylang

  • mocadazu

    (@mocadazu)


    7 years, 5 months ago

    Hello!

    I would like to change my theme to Kale, because I like the theme (I’m using it on my other page: http://www.freeyourkitchen.com)

    On this site I’m using polylang and I want to keep using it since it’s easy and free. But when I change my theme into Kale it looks like Polylang is not compatible.

    My question: Is it possible to use Polylang in the free version of the Kale theme?

    Thanks!

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  • jarektheme

    (@jarektheme)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    Hi there,

    Thank you for getting in touch with us.

    Polylang works with Kale, however we found that there is an issue with “Featured Posts” section which can be setup only in Customizer. Apparently the strings from Customizer don’t show up in translation strings in Polylang.

    There is some workaround which requires some changes in theme file and it only works when homepage is set as static page. That means your blog feed (recent posts) section will be displayed on posts page, not on front page because static front page don’t have this section build in. I’m not sure if this is what you want.

    Kind regards

    Thread Starter mocadazu

    (@mocadazu)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    Dear Jarektheme,

    Thanks for the fast answer! I already wanted to have a static front page, so that’s no problem!

    Thanks!

    jarektheme

    (@jarektheme)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    To create mulitlingual Customizer you need to use customizer-polylang script created by Soderlind: https://github.com/soderlind/customizer-polylang

    First you need to open functions.php file inside wp-content/themes/kale folder and add this code at the end:

    require_once get_stylesheet_directory() . '/customizer-polylang.php'; ?>

    Then please download the zip file here: https://app.box.com/s/3s1s3hiltpkvmp8dpn23y98sl6ss3mx5
    and unzip it. Finally you need to upload customizer-polylang.php file and js folder from unzipped file to wp-content/themes/kale directory.
    This should add new dropdown menu with English and second language option in Appearance → Customize section. You can select specific language and change posts in Featured Posts section. This way you can see different posts on English side and the other one on other language side.

    Kind regards

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by jarektheme.
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