Twenty Fourteen: ephemera widget's link to more posts doesn't work with polylang

Have you a link?

At the moment I’ve disabled the polylang plugin and my website is hidden behind the “Coming Soon” plugin, but can restore polylang and make everything public if you want to check out.

Please let me know which version of Polylang I shoud set up for you to try.

Your tests should be done with 1.4dev15 since, thanks to you, I noticed a bug in post format archives urls in previous versions.

What is the url which has ‘page not found’. It should be something like domain/fr/type/aside (for the French archive of aside posts). The language code may be hidden for the default language depending on your settings.

Hello,
Sorry for the latency in my answer. Just updated to polylang 1.4.
I get a ‘page not found’ result with links like these:

https://gerloseye.org/archives/type/aside
https://gerloseye.org/archives/type/image
https://gerloseye.org/archives/type/asides
https://gerloseye.org/archives/type/images

I’ve seen also that when polylang is active headers in ephemera widgets don’t get localized.

So for example, if polylang is deactivated I read “Immagini” (I’m Italian) on top of my images ephemera widget, and when I activate polylang I read “Images”, regardless of current language chosen.

I disabled the “coming soon” plugin, so you can see the issue here:
https://gerloseye.org

Tinkering with polylang and twenty fourteen on WP 3.8.1 I found some other issues:

– when I select my secondary language (English on my blog), featured content grid isn’t displayed.
– when I choose my primary language (Italian), the language chooser isn’t displayed in the top menu (right now, look for it in the footer).

You can see them on https://gerloseye.org

Anyway, I’m planning to disable polylang on this blog until I find solution to these issues, doing experiments on a test server elsewhere (I’ll give you a link).

I just fixed the development version (1.4.0.4) to fix the post format link issue. https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/polylang.zip

So for example, if polylang is deactivated I read “Immagini” (I’m Italian) on top of my images ephemera widget, and when I activate polylang I read “Images”, regardless of current language chosen.

There is currently an incompatibility between the Twenty Fourteen Ephemera widget and the “The language is set from content” option. So I suggest that you choose the option “The language is set from the directory name in pretty permalinks”

– when I select my secondary language (English on my blog), featured content grid isn’t displayed.

You must translated the featured tag and use the translated “featured tag” for your secondary language.

– when I choose my primary language (Italian), the language chooser isn’t displayed in the top menu (right now, look for it in the footer).

Did you add the language switcher in your Italian menu?

I just fixed the development version (1.4.0.4) to fix the post format link issue. https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/polylang.zip

Great. Just downloaded and installed it. Works fine so far.

There is currently an incompatibility between the Twenty Fourteen Ephemera widget and the “The language is set from content” option. So I suggest that you choose the option “The language is set from the directory name in pretty permalinks”

Done. Now headers are displayed as expected, and links to archives work too.

You must translated the featured tag and use the translated “featured tag” for your secondary language.

Done. Now it works.

Did you add the language switcher in your Italian menu?

Doh! My fault. Added it again and obviously it works.

Many thanks for your invaluable help.

One last question: I’ve seen that when I edit a post in a language, (say English), and try to add an image, I can’t see in the media library images I already used in my other language posts. Do I have to upload the same image again, for the other language?

Not sure if this behaviour is intended or not, but it seems uncomfortable to me, since I plan to provide translations of my posts and don’t want to fill my uploads dir with duplicates.

I’ve another question.

Doing experiments with image posts. Got a post in Italian, and added an English translation.

I’ve seen that even if I can’t use images from “Italian media library”, the post thumbnail for this translation is the same of the original post, even if I changed the top most image in my translated post.

But If I remove it, I can’t add it any more. I have to upload it again.

This behaviour seems strange to me, is there a reason for it?

One last question: I’ve seen that when I edit a post in a language, (say English), and try to add an image, I can’t see in the media library images I already used in my other language posts. Do I have to upload the same image again, for the other language?

Not sure if this behaviour is intended or not, but it seems uncomfortable to me, since I plan to provide translations of my posts and don’t want to fill my uploads dir with duplicates.

If you don’t need to translate titles and descriptions, you can uncheck the languages and translations management in Polylang settings. Otherwise you need to translate your media (this does not duplicate files).

I’ve seen that even if I can’t use images from “Italian media library”, the post thumbnail for this translation is the same of the original post, even if I changed the top most image in my translated post.

You may be troubled by the featured image synchronization between posts. you can disable this in Polylang settings.

Many thanks for your suggestions, and sorry for my former questions, I actually didn’t understand some polylang settings, and didn’t know I could translate also media.

Now everything makes sense.
As far as I understand, my workflow should like thin: publish post in a language, adding text and media, translating media, translating post, adding translated media.

Thanks again for your helpful answers.

Hello everyone!
I have had some of the troubles that @gerlos was having, and reading this thread I was able to solve them.
However, I still have a problem that I cannot seem to work around.
When I try to search for any string, I get an “Index of” page result, and I can see that the form is having it’s action in a wrong place.

I’m on a localhost, and this is the url I get redirected to (action of form):
https://192.168.56.111/web/en/?s=test

The same thing happens in the second language (es).

Any idea on how to solve this?
Thanks and regards
Mariano

I’m happy this helped someone else.

I tried to do a search on my blog, nad everything works fine, in both Italian and English.

I get a “page not found” error only when I try to change language clicking on the language widget from the search results page, but I thinks this is expected (that search was for posts in the other language).

@malesandro, could be something wrong in your server configuration?
On my blog, search urls are like this:
https://gerloseye.org/en?s=lorem+ipsum

In your URL there seems to be a slash between the language url and the query string.