Title: Polylang breaks basic themes?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Polylang breaks basic themes?

 *  Resolved [dnaumov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dnaumov/)
 * (@dnaumov)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polylang-breaks-basic-themes/)
 * I have the latest release of WordPress on a site that’s using Twenty Sixteen.
   Enabling Polylang hides/removes the top-side menu I’ve added with a couple of
   links to pages. What the hell? After spending 2 days battling really obscure 
   bugs with various calendar plugins and finally settling on one that does indeed“
   just work”, the mere act of simply installing a multilanguage plugin breaking
   my site was not something I had expected.
 * But oh well, after I discovered that some calendar plugins are literally broken
   to the point of locking you out of your site (including admin), I guess I shouldn’t
   be surprised.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/)

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 *  [nami44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nami44/)
 * (@nami44)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polylang-breaks-basic-themes/#post-7212999)
 * Hi Chouby,
 * I’m having the same issue!
 * I’ve spent a couple of days customizing relatively new basic themes (Sela & Twenty
   Sixteen) on my test site running on WP 4.4.2 and when I activate Polylang, everything
   disappears – no menu, no posts, no pages…
 * I have another site using the latest version of Polylang and running also on 
   WP 4.4.2, but everything works fine, the only difference is that I use Twenty
   Twelve theme on this site.
 * I’d like to continue using Polylang with a new theme, would you have any idea
   of the cause? Thanks in advance!
 * Bonjour Chouby,
    J’ai le même problème que dnaumov. Sur mon site test avec de
   nouveaux thèmes, tout disparaît quand j’active Polylang, alors que tout marche
   à merveille sur mon site avec le thème Twenty Twelve. Auriez-vous une idée sur
   la cause? J’aimerais continuer à utiliser ce pluguin sur mon site avec un nouveau
   thème. Merci d’avance de votre aide 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [dnaumov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dnaumov/)
 * (@dnaumov)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polylang-breaks-basic-themes/#post-7213001)
 * I solved my problem. Posts and such were not a problem for me, the plugin screams
   at you to assing every pre-existing post a default language, not sure how you
   missed that. But as for my menu problem: I gave installing the plugin another
   go and this time I followed the PDF guide suggested on the FAQ page. It mentioned
   that you have to create 2 sets of menus, 1 for each language (for a total of 
   2 languages in my case). Once i did that, the menus now work.
 *  [nami44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nami44/)
 * (@nami44)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polylang-breaks-basic-themes/#post-7213025)
 * oh it works, you saved my day, thanks!

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 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polylang-breaks-basic-themes/#post-7213025)
 * Status: resolved