Polylang doesn't work correctly

[doorofperception]

Today I switched from WPML to Polylang as the plugin for multilanguage support, because WPML never fully worked and Polylang is mentioned as the recommended choice.

But I still have several problems. Actually the switch hasn't made anything better for me. More or less same issues persist. But I need to fix this as the site performs very poorly in SEO and I think the broken multilanguage thing is a major cause.

1. The homepage does not translate. It exists in two version but only one can be shown. This problem was already mentioned several times in the forum here. The solution mentioned didn't fix it for me.

2. The language switcher only links to the landing page instead of actually going to the translated version of the current page. This was also the workaround I used with WPML for years but I figured out that it's not really a multilanguage website like that. I also think it's really bad for SEO.

3. When setting the footer and the homepage to display in the Wordpress settings, it doesn't allow me to set it for each language separately.

4. All permalinks now show "-2" after the original name, like https://practice.de/teacher-2/ and I can't edit the permalinks anymore. Compared to the issues above this of course is only a decorative flaw.

The website in question is https://practice.de/

Can somebody help me to make this work? — BEN

[doorofperception]

I can't display the home page in two languages.
Same goes for the Footer.

I already paid a developer on fiverr and he also said it doesn't work.

That can't be!

[Richard]

Dear Ben

@doorofperception

Am i correct that we have now referenced this to another Thread

http://laythemeforum.com:4567/topic/6977/i-need-help-with-polylang/2

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Best Wishes

Richard