Plugin Author
Chouby
(@chouby)
I have no such issue on my test local site. Which theme are you using ? Have you a link ?
Hello Chouby,
I use twentyten.
Link to the test site: coelo.eu
Quiet possibly the reason might be that I installed and tested xili, qtranslate on the same site/wp installation before. So perhaps these other sites messed sth up?
After checking all other plugins I wanted to go ahead with polyang as it is simple, light and does the job but came accross the above mentioned issue.
Another question is: Is it possible to have a static page as the Home page. You specify this page in Dashboard settings/Reading. Obviosly you can specify only one (in one language)……..
Peter
Plugin Author
Chouby
(@chouby)
My tests are done with Twenty Ten too 🙂
Did you set a language for the test category ? Conflicts with Xili language are possible. I did not test that.
It is possible to use a static page as home page. You have to create one in each language and set translations and then choose one of them in the settings/Reading panel. the same for page for posts.
I did set language for all categories.
I will prepare a clean test environment to get rid of all other multilingual plugin remains and test it again. I will then post my findings here.
speak soon,
P
OK, so I put Polylang on the fresh WP 3.1.1 installation and I found I had 2 issues present:
1. One as described above – language switcher flags disappear on a page which is a post category page. It works fine on stand alone pages.
2. In WP dashboard when I add a new post, when I want to select which categories it belongs to in a ‘category widget’ I cannot see any categories even though there are categories set up in the WP.
This is true for posts added after installing Polylang. When I edit posts added before Polylang installation, which had categories added before I can still see the full list of available categories.
THe above problems no 1 and no 2 were the result of relevant categories in different languages not matched! Once I matched/translated categories all works brilliantly!
One more question then:
How to make switcher flags align to the right edge of the nav menu.
They are currently just after the last menu item but I would like them to be on the right hand side.
Any help will be much appreciated.
regards,
Pete
Plugin Author
Chouby
(@chouby)
For the theme Twenty Ten, just add the following css rule in style.css:
#access li.lang-item {
float: right;
}
However, it is better to create a child theme rather than directly editing the style.css in Twenty Theme, otherwise your modifications will be overwritten by the next theme update.
Many thanks Chouby. This is very helpful.
I already use child themes.
Would you know how to move the flags to the page title bar?
REGARDS,
Plugin Author
Chouby
(@chouby)
To display the switcher outside the menu or the widget sidebar, you need to use the function pll_the_languages with the correct arguments described in the documentation. You will also have to style it using the css class .lang-item
You will probably have to put this function somewhere around the line 65 the in twentyten/header.php
Chouby, thank you very much both for the advise and for making this plugin. I just cannot believe how simple it is yet does the job so brilliantly!
I have just noticed that widget labels are translated automatically!!!
However the category page title/label which reads in English “Category Archives:” and then displays the particular category name is not translated in to the other language. Same with meta texts e.g “Posted in”, “Posted by”, “Tagged”, etc. What changes should I make for this to be translated? (thought it would be a short post but the more I use the plugin the more questions pop up 🙂 )
Plugin Author
Chouby
(@chouby)
Download the pl_PL.mo file here and upload it in twentyten/languages.
Many thanks. Works like a dream!
Hi again Chouby,
So I set up this test site where I activated Polylang and as expressed above it works like a dream. Now I have activated it in my live site and have the same problem again!
I can set up languages in settings, I can set up pages in different languages and easily link relevant page translations using ID field. I can then see liitle ‘+’ and pencil icons in the table listing all pages.
However when it comes to categories and tags I am not able to even set a language.
Lets say I have 30 categories, all with English selected in the dropdown (they were original categories). I add a couple of new translated categories. Now I click on edit (new) category. The language shows English. So I select Polish from the drop down (as this is the second language for my project). A frame shows up below – more like a table – showing 3 columns in 1 row:
Language – English
Translation – No untranslated term
Edit – Add new
There is no drop down field where I could select matching English category! I believe a drop-down field should appear where there is ‘No untranslated term’ is.
It is absolutely doing my head in!!!
I click ‘Update’ button and my language selection is not saved.
When I come back to re-edit the category it still reads English even though I had selected different language.
(is it because it is not saving ‘Polish’ I select, that then ‘No untranslated term’ shows on any English category???)
I remember I had a similar issue on the test site and then suddenly these drop-downs where I could select matching translated category showed up. From then on I could match all categories/tags. I do not recall what I did to get to that point though.
Any ideas?
Your help will be much appreciated,
Pete
Plugin Author
Chouby
(@chouby)
