I have very, serious issues with one site which I am trying to convert to multilingual.
I reported those problems already several times and after over 3 months those issues are still unfixed. I have already removed SPPB completely from my two other websites because of the bugs. It is less frustrating to use JCE than SPPB when dealing with content. Yes, there are less features, but also less (or no) bugs.
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I have site which I need to use 2 languages (possibly more in the future). (a)English-US (b)Polish-PL
When installed Joomla English-EN was a native language for the installation
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I added English-US as a new language to the site
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Used DUPLICATE function on the existing SPPB pages to create duplicates and convert them later into another language. I used this method with the standard Joomla articles and it works very well.
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I then opened the duplicated page and changed the language from English-GB to English-US.
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Saved the page and when I try to re-open it I see: Error-505 (page not found). This same page will also not open on the site.
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When I do some tweaking and somehow revert language for a particular page back to Enhlish-GB the page opens up. There is definitely some kind of bug.
At this point using SPPB for multilanguage sites is asking for a disaster. Yes I was lucky to have few pages working fin on another site (English-Spanish) for some time, but then the moment I started adding new pages or duplicating the pages and converting to another language the same problems appeared.
To make things worse there is no option to change a language for multiple pages so if one has 100 pages to convert it would take entire day, versus Joomla native function (in Articles) which allows to do the same in few seconds. :-(
I have asked for this simple improvement multiple times and it was ignorred :-(
The general opinion is that SPPB is really super unstable and unreliable. I have 2 other sites (where I do not use SPPB) and have 2-3 languages used and have NO ISSUES.
I WOULD LIKE SOMEBODY FROM JOOM-SHAPER TO ANSWER WHEN THOSE BUGS WILL BE FIXED ???