[Plugin: Polylang] menu for a theme does not change language

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@chouby

Hi, we have a similar menu problem. We have a custom built theme, using
<?php wp_nav_menu(); ?> and <?php pll_the_languages(array(‘show_flags’=>1,’show_names’=>0)); ?> in header file.

We have followed instructons/settings for installing Polylang and everything seems to work but the menu. We have 2 menus (created in admin), one in swedish and one in english. But the menu stays in swedish at all times, while content changes to english when you press the english flag.

Can you possibly know what can be missing? Here’s a link to the site; https://www.processtodstockholm.se

Thanks in advance.
Emily

@chouby

Hi again,

Solved it with this https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-polylang-multilingual-menus-1?replies=4

You should add this in the instructions:

For Polylang to work, the theme_location must be defined but not the menu.

Something like:
wp_nav_menu( array( ‘container_class’ => ‘menu-header’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’ ) ); ?> is OK

Something like:
wp_nav_menu( array(‘menu’ => ‘Project Nav’ ));
is not OK

=) Great plugin!! Best regards /E

Dear Chouby

I love the theme however I’m having the same problem as well as a couple of others. I have created two menus, one for English (default one) and one for German. I set everything accordingly in Settings > Languages > Menus as mentioned above.

The problems I’m having:
– The menu does not change when the language flag is clicked
– The string translations do not work
– The widgets do not change accordingly to the chosen language (I added every widget twice, once for each language and set “The widget is displayed for” to the according language)

The theme was created by myself (I used WP’s twentyeleven as a blueprint) and the menu is being created with the following line in my header.php:
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'primary' ) ); ?>

The website is: https://www.865artist.com

I hope you’re still gonna see my post since the last answer was written four months ago.

Thanks

I found the problem. It is a plugin called ‘Theme My Login’ which enables you to create individual pages for the login, reset password and register pages.

I really want that plugin though so if anyone can help me to allow both plugins to work together I’d be very grateful.

Hi, I’m having a similar problem with my theme as well. the menu is called with

<?php wp_nav_menu('main'); ?>

and I can’t get polylang to switch menus while on different languages. if I substitute the wp_nav_menu code with

<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'container_class' => 'menu-header', 'theme_location' => 'primary' ) ); ?>

the menus show perfectly but they don’t apply a specific CSS style. i just started working with WP so I’m not that good with it’s syntax. any help is apreciated.

Your theme author did not read the wp_nav_menu documentation… It’s pure luck if it works as expected. Just because most users do not create more than one menu.

Is your theme coming with an already existing menu called ‘main’?
If yes, I would try ‘menu-main-container’ as value for ‘container_class’ instead of ‘menu-header’.

Hi Chouby,
Wondering if you could help me on this please.
I have same problem and here is the header and the functions file.
Could you please suggest a solutions.

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@lovemarshall as this has been marked resolved already and it’s a different problem then yours please start your own topic instead.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/polylang#postform