Multilingual

[melo_lenosier]

Hello guys,
does anybody ever tried to use PolyLang plugin for multilang websites? I just tried it the other day on my local website and seems to work perfectly.
I would like to know if someone of you has already tried it, in order to understand if I have to expect a future incompatibility with lay theme...

Cheers,
Melo

[rocked23]

Hey @melo_lenosier,

i use it on www.matteroffact.de and it works out 90% I’d say ...

The things, that don’t work are as follows (if you already solved one of those – would be happy to hear from you...):

1a) Start on matteroffact.de, then navigate to Contact –> No contact-form is visible right.

1b) click on DE in the right corner for the German contact site –> The form is visible.

1c) if I now edit the English contact form in the backend, the German one will be not visible anymore in the frontend – but the English one ... (and so on)

2a) Start on matteroffact.de (the default page language is set to EN), then click DE in the right corner for the German language, click on any site and then on the logo in the left top corner –> The main intro and the English homepage will appear

I think besides that two bugs, the plugin is doing very well.
Woud be happy, if anyone has some hints.

Best and greetings from Cologne
Alex

[arminunruh]

Hey!

Laytheme can't really do multilanguage right now.
Soon a new redeveloped version of the gridder will replace the old gridder of lay theme and it will have multilanguage support with qtranslateX. Thx 4 your patience :)

[Djao-Rakitine]

Hello,

I have just read your last post. Do you have news about how yo make multilingual website now?
If is it possible do it now? Only with qtranslate? If not which other plugins are working?

Thanks!

[arminunruh]

hey!
we're working on making multilanguage possible with the qtranslatex plugin. i can't tell you when exactly it will be done!

[Djao-Rakitine]

@arminunruh

Thanks for your answer!
I have actually already translate the website with polylang and the switcher works perfectly with alla the pages but not with the front page.
Do you know if there is a way to set the front page in order to have to have it in both languages?

Thanks

[mariusjopen]

Dear @Djao-Rakitine
can you post a link to your website?

Best!

Marius

[Djao-Rakitine]

@mariusjopen

http://djaorakitine.com/en

At the moment, of course, is published only in English

[mariusjopen]

Dear @arminunruh
I cannot see a button to switch the language.

Best!

Marius

[Djao-Rakitine]

@mariusjopen This because we do not want to publish it without the correct front page.
I can add the switch for a short windows of time if that can be useful.
Please let me know.
Thanks!

[mariusjopen]

Dear @Djao-Rakitine
can you make a test page which you can share with us?

Best!

Marius

[Djao-Rakitine]

@mariusjopen

This is the web site:

http://djaorakitine.com/

You will see that, if you switch on FR, the menu and all its contents are correctly translated in french, but not the front page, that is always in English.
I'll keep it with a bilingual version for a short time so you can have a look (so please after have looked at that, tell me so I can remove it).

Thanks!!!!

[mariusjopen]

Dear @Djao-Rakitine

ok. I see the problem.

I do not see a clean solution for this.
Because LayTheme is not really optimised for this yet.

I would try to work around. Can you make a duplicate of the front page and show this one instead?

Best!

Marius

[Djao-Rakitine]

@mariusjopen I agree with the idea to work around the issue. What do you mean with a duplicate of the front page? I have already the frontpage translated in French (is the one that is called "projets" in the French menu) but LayTheme allow me to set only one page and the menu is always in English.

Thanks!

[mariusjopen]

Dear @Djao-Rakitine
I man that since the plugin in combination with LayTheme does not offer a language switch on the front page, you need to come up with a different solution.

Maybe use another page as a french landing page.
I am not talking about a clean solution but something which can me a good compromise.

Best!

Marius

[Djao-Rakitine]

@mariusjopen I would like to do that but unfortunately I can not control neither the front page nor the french landing page. How can I control the landing page?
Thanks

[mariusjopen]

Dear @Djao-Rakitine
honestly I don't really know how to solve that.
Maybe you can figure out something with try and error.

Or don't place text on the home-page?

We plan to make languages possible in the near future.

I hope you can still use LayTheme.

All the best!

Marius

[arminunruh]

Hey please use the latest lay theme which now has multilanguage support:
http://laytheme.com/documentation.html#multilanguage

[rsepierre]

Hi Guys,

I think qTranslate is dead since 2016 (the author vanished).

Some guys are turning the plugin in a community driven plugin (https://github.com/qtranslate/qtranslate-xt) and I tested it early may 2019 and it worked flawlessly with layTheme.

It is now broken, but I don't think it's because of a layTheme/qTranslate-XT update but rather a wordpress core update.

Maybe there is not much to chance to make it work again ?
I'll try some tweaks to make it work today.

[rsepierre]

@arminunruh & @mariusjopen I found a very little change to make laytheme compatible with the new qtranslate-XT plugin.

https://github.com/qtranslate/qtranslate-xt

The only thing is to update this bit in frontend.php

// $is_qtranslate_active = is_plugin_active('qtranslate-x/qtranslate.php');
// replace with
$is_qtranslate_active = is_plugin_active('qtranslate-x/qtranslate.php') || is_plugin_active('qtranslate-xt-master/qtranslate.php');

and that bit in gridder.php

// 'qTranslateX' => is_plugin_active( 'qtranslate-x/qtranslate.php' )
// replace with 
'qTranslateX' => is_plugin_active( 'qtranslate-x/qtranslate.php' ) || is_plugin_active('qtranslate-xt-master/qtranslate.php')

Going further, I think you could come up with a "fork/version blind" test for qtranslate activation like

$is_qtranslate_active = function_exists('qtranxf_init_language');

But it might complicate things especialy for laygridder as qtranslate must be loaded BEFORE 'qtranxf_init_language' is tested.

I didn't test 100% of the translation functionnalities ( in every blocks : carousel / stacks / grids etc ) but this should still be a no-cost improvement to implement :) !