Defining a home page

Probably a conflict with your theme. Is it freely downloadable?

Hi,

Thanks for your reply, yes it is:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/responsive

See you.

OK. This theme should work out of the box (This is one I test). There is bug in 1.0 which may cause some of your issues. Could you please install the current development version (1.0.0.2) and tell me is there is still something wrong.
https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/polylang.zip

Hi,

I still got the same errors ??

Thanks for your help ??

Could you explain how you do to load posts from your static page?

Hi,

Under WordPress admin I’ve set a static page with model “Blog excerpt” model as home page and I’ve modified the the blog.php file to only load a particular cat ID in home page ‘see bellow).

Do you think problem can be that? Also my theme version is 1.6.8 and last is 1.8.8.

Thanks !!

<?php get_header(); ?>

        <div id="content-blog" class="grid col-620">
<?php
    if ( get_query_var('paged') )
	    $paged = get_query_var('paged');
	elseif ( get_query_var('page') )
	    $paged = get_query_var('page');
	else
		$paged = 1;
		<strong>query_posts("cat=1&post_type=post&paged=$paged"); </strong>
?> 

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

            <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

                <h1><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php printf(__('Permanent Link to %s', 'responsive'), the_title_attribute('echo=0')); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>

                <div class="post-meta">

                </div><!-- end of .post-meta -->

                <div class="post-entry">
                    <?php if ( has_post_thumbnail()) : ?>
                        <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" >
                    <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
                        </a>
                    <?php endif; ?>
                    <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
                    <?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<div class="pagination">' . __('Pages:', 'responsive'), 'after' => '</div>')); ?>
                </div><!-- end of .post-entry -->

                <div class="post-data">
				    <?php the_tags(__('Tagged with:', 'responsive') . ' ', ', ', '<br />'); ?>
					<?php printf(__('', 'responsive'), get_the_category_list(', ')); ?>
                </div><!-- end of .post-data -->             

            <div class="post-edit"><?php edit_post_link(__('Edit', 'responsive')); ?></div>
            </div><!-- end of #post-<?php the_ID(); ?> -->

        <?php endwhile; ?> 

        <?php if (  $wp_query->max_num_pages > 1 ) : ?>
        <div class="navigation">
			<div class="previous"><?php next_posts_link( __( '‹ Older posts', 'responsive' ) ); ?></div>
            <div class="next"><?php previous_posts_link( __( 'Newer posts ›', 'responsive' ) ); ?></div>
		</div><!-- end of .navigation -->
        <?php endif; ?>

	    <?php else : ?>

        <h1 class="title-404"><?php _e('404 — Fancy meeting you here!', 'responsive'); ?></h1>
        <p><?php _e('Don't panic, we'll get through this together. Let's explore our options here.', 'responsive'); ?></p>
        <h6><?php _e( 'You can return', 'responsive' ); ?> <a href="<?php echo home_url(); ?>/" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Home', 'responsive' ); ?>"><?php _e( '&larr; Home', 'responsive' ); ?></a> <?php _e( 'or search for the page you were looking for', 'responsive' ); ?></h6>
        <?php get_search_form(); ?>

<?php endif; ?>  

        </div><!-- end of #content -->

<?php get_sidebar('right'); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

There are 2 issues in your code.

First you overwrite all query vars except ‘paged’ in your ‘query_post’ instruction. So if Polylang has set the query var ‘lang’, (or if any other plugin set another one) you remove it.
See https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/polylang-homepage-shows-posts-in-both-languages for an example

And then you query one category for which the language should be defined (French ?), so the result should always be in the language of that category.

If you want to query a category in multiple languages, then you should first translate the category in your admin and then query something like:

$args = array('cat' => pll_get_term(1)); // get the translation of category 1 in the current language
$args = array_merge($GLOBALS['wp_query']->query_vars, $args); // just add our query vars without overwriting the others
query_posts($args);

Hi,

I’m not too technical but I think I get what you mean.
So to resume: I translate the category ID 1, then change :

$paged = 1;
		query_posts("cat=1&post_type=post&paged=$paged");
?>

to

$args = array('cat' => pll_get_term(1)); // get the translation of category 1 in the current language
$args = array_merge($GLOBALS['wp_query']->query_vars, $args); // just add our query vars without overwriting the others
query_posts($args);

Is that right?

Thanks for your time!

change all

if ( get_query_var('paged') )
	    $paged = get_query_var('paged');
	elseif ( get_query_var('page') )
	    $paged = get_query_var('page');
	else
		$paged = 1;
		query_posts("cat=1&post_type=post&paged=$paged");

to

$args = array('cat' => pll_get_term(1)); // get the translation of category 1 in the current language
$args = array_merge($GLOBALS['wp_query']->query_vars, $args); // just add our query vars without overwriting the others
query_posts($args);

Hi,

Thanks but got this error on home page:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function pll_get_term() in /homez.83/fredericc/www/wp-content/themes/responsive/blog.php on line 26

You should get this error if Polylang is deactivated.

Well finally I made the test and the code proposed above does not work. I did not test deeply but it’s probably a conflict between the cat query var intentionnally added and the page query var not overwritten due to my proposal to do so.

So let’s overwrite query vars as initially done:

if ( get_query_var('paged') )
	    $paged = get_query_var('paged');
	elseif ( get_query_var('page') )
	    $paged = get_query_var('page');
	else
		$paged = 1;
		$cat = function_exists('pll_get_term') ? pll_get_term(1) : 1; // tests polylang is present before attempting to translate the category
		query_posts("cat=$cat&post_type=post&paged=$paged");

Hi,

Thanks for that it works for the home page! even if polyland is disabled, you rocks!
Now just got the problem that the translated pages return me 404 pages? ??

Thanks again!

Have you translated the “uncategorized” category (should be this one with id 1)? Have you posts associated to this translated category?

Hi,

Yes yes, but the problem is only for pages, articles are OK.

See you.

You mean other pages witch use a different template than the one you modified (blog.php) ?

In that case, could you:
1. resave your permalinks.
2. if the problem persists, deactivate all plugins but Polylang and resave your permalinks.
3. activate your plugins one by one ad check for any conflict with Polylang