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Multilanguage site issues

Asked by Arthur 3 years ago Last activity 3 years ago

I have 2 language site. We just starting translating everything from English to Polish and vice versa. I got a home page and duplicated this pag in SPB. I then opened it and edited that page. After duplication this page showed up as Home (2). I then added this page to the category and assigned Polish language. Saved.
When I then tried to reopen it Ig ot 404-PageNotFound Error.
Any idea ? why ?

what is proper approach in creating multiplanguage pages. Is see one big issue here that SPB articles do not show up on the standard Joomla article list and the only access is thrgouh the SPB page list. That page list is very limited in features. Is there any better way to deal with that ?

On top of that I have endless problems with the page editor:

  • the tools panel doesn;t want to stay up (pinned to the left browser frame)
  • when editing a test the small Edit menu pop-up and 80% of the time is covers the underlying edited text which makes editing super frustrating. I am using 4K monitors so perghaps sPB wronly recalculates distances, margins etc. Not sure why this happens but it is super annoying.

I also have this information in the Site FOOTER. It was entered in the template so I would I make this multi-language ?

https://ibb.co/tsqk8ns

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Arthur Asked this
3 years ago

Those videos show how to create Menu items. I do not need that. I am trying to make Page in two languages and there seems to be a total mess. The very wired things are happening.

For example:

  1. I create a page in English, say: PAGE-EN
  2. then I make a copy of this page and save it as PAGE-SP

Then my intention is to translate English text from PAGE-SP into Spanish , so I end up with two pages in English and Spanish. Unfortunately it doesn't work that way.

Ofi Khan Staff
3 years ago

Hello Arthur

Yes, it should work like this. What is your exact issue? Please share a screenshot of your issue to understand it better. Take a screenshot and share via any platform. For example: Lightshot or Imgur.

To fix the alias, you can add them to the menu item. You can hide the menu item if you do not want to show it on the site.

Best regards

Arthur Asked this
3 years ago

I have seen this blogpost. I have done number of multilingual sites in the past, so I know the process. Doing this with SPB is however a bit different, simply because we dealing with Pages (not articles).

My typical workflow is that I copy a Page1 in language A into Page1 in language B. Then I change the title, language settings, and translate the content. When I save that page - instead of getting P1-B with language B I get two duplicates. Another words Page1-A becomes Page1-B and I end up with two pages of the same (new language).
If I instead create completely new Page for language B, then it all works OK, but I loose the ability to translate live and I basically have to start with the blank page - which I really do not want to do (because it is very inconvenient).

Toufiq Senior Staff
3 years ago

Page Builder content have to change by yourself. There is no automation system to make multilingual pages.

Arthur Asked this
3 years ago

Looks like you do not understand the issue. I am not expecting SPB to translate the content, that would be silly.
Once again:

Let's say I have an English page. I create a copy of that page. I translate the text in the copied page into Spanish. I save it. Then when I go to the original English page, suddenly that page also becomes Spanish page.

When I apply the same workflow in Joomla Articles (ie. using JCE editor) this does not happen.

I hope I explained it clear enough. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ???

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