Oolong

I’m having the same problem – one of the newer themes that uses Navigation blocks rather than the deprecated Menu feature.

I managed to add a bunch of navigation menus for different languages a few months ago, but now that I’m trying to add another one I’m totally stumped. I added a Navigation block, but it doesn’t get hidden, so I have English navigation with Portuguese underneath. If I use the suggested ‘Site Editor Classic Features’ plugin, the Menus bit only lists English-language names of pages, so I can’t see how that helps.

Hey, my dashboard now has a constant, extremely vague error at the top of the page:

Error occurred while updating document WordPress. Message: id value is not valid

I have absolutely no idea what to do with this, and the only similar bug reports I can find are like “Error occurred while updating document Widget”.

I’m guessing it’s something to do with this kludge, but I could be wrong! Have you seen anything similar, by any chance?

Ahhh, this makes sense now! I simply hadn’t included the language switcher shortcode itself on the ‘single post’ template’.

The test page I posted is a mess because I finished that phase of testing and didn’t need it any more. ??

Thanks again for your help!

Thanks, but I’m confused – why would the test page, which has its own template, affect the way posts are displayed?

If there were different headers, I don’t think it would be listing multiple menus at all! It’s somehow rendering the same template part differently?

Uh oh… my site is heavily based on pages rather than posts, so I only just realised that on posts, all the menus are visible!

Thanks Michel!

1) Silly mistake – my test page is only officially “in English”! If I add the switcher to other pages, it goes to the right place.

2) If I make the menus part of the page template (which makes sense anyway, of course) it correctly hides all but the relevant one, I think!

So… I think this is just about working now!

Hmm… I’ve made a test page with all the language menus, but it’s only hiding the Spanish one. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

Thank you!

Okay, multilingual menus seem to work as well (once I got the hang of converting them to groups).

But the switcher always takes you to the front page rather than the page you were looking at? That’s not what I was hoping for – I wonder if it would be feasible to change this?

Thanks @michelb-1, this seems to work for me! Just adding multilingual menus now…

Hi @chouby I tried downgrading to Polylang 3.2 in the hopes of getting a working language switcher in Twenty Twenty-Two, establishing that the language switcher doesn’t appear in 3.2, 3.2.4 or 3.2.5.

This seems like a major incompatibility. I’m inferring that the plugin likely relies on a theme feature (legacy widget block support maybe??) that is absent from this theme?

• This reply was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by Oolong.

This doesn’t work at all for me, @thedud3, as of 3.2.5. The language switcher simply doesn’t appear as an option in any of the places that page says it should.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by Oolong.

To add an additional bug: editing the theme to add menu support (by adding add_theme_support( 'menus' ); to functions.php) means that it becomes possible to add a language switcher menus, only it doesn’t actually work. It’s just a link to #pll_switcher which doesn’t even produce an error message if you check the console.

No sign of the other ways of adding a language switcher promised in the documentation.

The plugin ‘details’ page says ‘Compatible up to: 6.0’ but that doesn’t seem to be true, if the default theme doesn’t work?

Is there a fix for this? Or a better workaround than just manually making a language switcher to choose between different front pages?

Thanks!

Turned out to be a Yoast issue. Resolved after posting here:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/how-to-rearrange-html-page-title/

That’s great – the title must have just been cached somewhere at the time of my previous comment.

Really appreciate your help with this.