berryblue031

You know I would have actually preferred to use the list version of the widget instead of the dropdown, but I didn’t know how to make it layout horizontally. Is it possible?

Ahhh that is perfect! Thank you.
It’s really great how fast you are at responding on the forum ??

Back to topic of the category is it really necessary to hard-code the category id (I was hoping to avoid that). I was kinda hoping there would be a function called getAlternateLanguage($cat_id, get_locale()); that would then return the id of the category in the proper language? I have linked the categories together as language alternatives of each other.

The theme is available to download you can get it here, it includes documentation about setting the permalinks
https://www.themeskingdom.com/en/page/Widely/229/theme

The first problem I had with it, is it requires a staic frontpage and uses is_front_page() in header.php to do special stuff on the front page,but when using your plugin there are multiple front pages (one for each language) and is_front_page was returning false on these pages – to get around this I ended up pulling all the code out of the themes front-page.php and putting it in a template called _front.php, then changing the is_front_page() calls to is_page_template(‘_front.php’), ideally is_front_page() would have returned true for all language versions of the front page.

And the second problem was with your language drop down, when I used it the pages didn’t work at all when referenced with /language/da, and the dirty hack I had to do for that was change the all my front pages to be called “en-home.php” , “da-home.php” etc, and then “modify” your Polylang_Widget href to use my naming scheme instead which is really ugly

// $url = home_url('?lang=');
$url = home_url('');
...
if (this.value == '$default')
   location.href = '$home_url';						else
{
   //location.href ='$url'+this.value;
   location.href = '$home_url' + '/' + this.value +'-home/';
}

For berryblue031, it would be a bit more complex as each category is normally affected one unique language.

I can easily make a category for each language. But the theme only allows me to input one category via it’s control panel.

So using that approach given a category id
$cat = get_option(THEME_NAME.'_slider_category'); //this returns an integer
How can I get the id of the related category in the language of the current page?

If there is no ‘nice’ way of doing it I guess I will just have to hack into your cookie variable and hardcode the category id based on it’s value. Though I would rather not have to hack it… I already had to make some hacks because the theme I am stuck with depends on a specific permalink format that your language drop down doesn’t respect and my php / wordpress skills aren’t good enough to modify the theme so I went with the easier route.

Ironically I am a professional C++ developer and some how that meant I have the skills and should make a website for my mother-in-laws bed and breakfast :P..