TheElear

Hi again Chouby,

So I set up this test site where I activated Polylang and as expressed above it works like a dream. Now I have activated it in my live site and have the same problem again!

I can set up languages in settings, I can set up pages in different languages and easily link relevant page translations using ID field. I can then see liitle ‘+’ and pencil icons in the table listing all pages.

However when it comes to categories and tags I am not able to even set a language.

Lets say I have 30 categories, all with English selected in the dropdown (they were original categories). I add a couple of new translated categories. Now I click on edit (new) category. The language shows English. So I select Polish from the drop down (as this is the second language for my project). A frame shows up below – more like a table – showing 3 columns in 1 row:
Language – English
Translation – No untranslated term
Edit – Add new

There is no drop down field where I could select matching English category! I believe a drop-down field should appear where there is ‘No untranslated term’ is.

It is absolutely doing my head in!!!
I click ‘Update’ button and my language selection is not saved.
When I come back to re-edit the category it still reads English even though I had selected different language.
(is it because it is not saving ‘Polish’ I select, that then ‘No untranslated term’ shows on any English category???)

I remember I had a similar issue on the test site and then suddenly these drop-downs where I could select matching translated category showed up. From then on I could match all categories/tags. I do not recall what I did to get to that point though.

Any ideas?
Your help will be much appreciated,
Pete

ok. In order to sort and format custom field alphabetically as below:
Angle: 30 degrees
Birthday: 124
Education: higher
Key3: whatever

I have used the following code in the loop.php:

<div class="pprow">
<?php $myid = $post->ID; 

$data = $wpdb->get_results("
SELECT * FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE post_id = $myid
AND meta_key NOT LIKE '\_%'
ORDER by meta_key ASC
");

	if( !empty( $data ) ) {
		foreach( $data as $result_object ) {
			print '<div class="ppmeta-key">';
			print $result_object->meta_key;
			print ': ';
			print '</div><div class="ppmeta-value">';
			print $result_object->meta_value;
			print '</div>';
			print '<br />';
						}
				}
	?>
	</div><!-- .pprow -->

and the following styling in .css:

.pprow {
	margin-bottom: 24px;
	}

.ppmeta-key {
	font-weight: bold;
	margin: 0px;
	display: inline
	}

.ppmeta-value {
	list-style: none;
	font-weight: normal;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
	display: inline
	}

many thanks to all who provided earlier input on this topic

regards,

wow! I have some results.

I studied these 2 threads:
1 https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/how-to-sort-custom-fields-alphabetically-by-key
2 https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/sort-custom-fields-after-meta_id-not-randomly

I could not make in my twenty ten child the 1st work. So started to look into number 2.

And got some results.

The original code is:

<?php $myid = $post->ID; // Assign this using a variable, or however you were before, eg. $post->ID

$data = $wpdb->get_results("
SELECT * FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE post_id = $myid
AND meta_key NOT LIKE '\_%'
AND meta_key NOT IN('cycle','pdf','youtube','underrubrik')
ORDER by meta_id ASC
");

if( !empty( $data ) ) {
	foreach( $data as $result_object ) {
		print $result_object->meta_id;
		print '<br />';
		print $result_object->post_id;
		print '<br />';
		print $result_object->meta_key;
		print '<br />';
		print $result_object->meta_value;
		print '<hr />';
	}
}
?>

As I only want meta_key followed by meta_value e.g.:
Date: 1973 I made some modifications, see below:

<?php $myid = $post->ID; // Assign this using a variable, or however you were before, eg. $post->ID

$data = $wpdb->get_results("
SELECT * FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE post_id = $myid
AND meta_key NOT LIKE '\_%'
ORDER by meta_key ASC
");

	if( !empty( $data ) ) {
		foreach( $data as $result_object ) {
			print $result_object->meta_key;
			print ': ';
			print $result_object->meta_value;
			print '<br />';
					}
				}
		?>

and it WORKS!
See my test page here: https://coelo.eu/category/test-category-1/

I strugle however to apply formatting. In the thread no 2, mentioned above, a user adds <div> tags to change her formatting.
I already have styles defined for both the key and the value in my .css. However when I added div’s I just cannot make it work. My classes are as follows:

.post-meta {list-style: none; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;}
.post-meta-key {font-weight: bold; margin: 0px;}

Any ideas how to modify this:

print $result_object->meta_key;
print ': ';
print $result_object->meta_value;
print '<br />';

so it looks like that:
Date: 1973
Education: blablabla

I am so glad I made some progress on it!
Now just to finish it off ??

just to confirm that this does the trick.
Exactly what I needed.

Many thanks

Many thanks guys, I will definitely try that!
And come back with the feedback.

Thanks alchmyth. It works.

I also found that ‘-1’ instructs to show all posts, but can be changed to whatever number of posts one wants to have displayed. So for example if I want to have 5 posts per page then the code will read:
&posts_per_page=5. Navigation is then automatically added back.

many thanks,

Silly!!!!

You can translate it in Settings/Languages/String Translations

regards to all

Many thanks. Works like a dream!

Chouby, thank you very much both for the advise and for making this plugin. I just cannot believe how simple it is yet does the job so brilliantly!

I have just noticed that widget labels are translated automatically!!!

However the category page title/label which reads in English “Category Archives:” and then displays the particular category name is not translated in to the other language. Same with meta texts e.g “Posted in”, “Posted by”, “Tagged”, etc. What changes should I make for this to be translated? (thought it would be a short post but the more I use the plugin the more questions pop up ?? )

Many thanks Chouby. This is very helpful.
I already use child themes.

Would you know how to move the flags to the page title bar?

REGARDS,

OK, so I put Polylang on the fresh WP 3.1.1 installation and I found I had 2 issues present:

1. One as described above – language switcher flags disappear on a page which is a post category page. It works fine on stand alone pages.

2. In WP dashboard when I add a new post, when I want to select which categories it belongs to in a ‘category widget’ I cannot see any categories even though there are categories set up in the WP.
This is true for posts added after installing Polylang. When I edit posts added before Polylang installation, which had categories added before I can still see the full list of available categories.

THe above problems no 1 and no 2 were the result of relevant categories in different languages not matched! Once I matched/translated categories all works brilliantly!

One more question then:
How to make switcher flags align to the right edge of the nav menu.
They are currently just after the last menu item but I would like them to be on the right hand side.

Any help will be much appreciated.

regards,
Pete

I did set language for all categories.

I will prepare a clean test environment to get rid of all other multilingual plugin remains and test it again. I will then post my findings here.

speak soon,
P

Hello Chouby,

I use twentyten.
Link to the test site: coelo.eu

Quiet possibly the reason might be that I installed and tested xili, qtranslate on the same site/wp installation before. So perhaps these other sites messed sth up?

After checking all other plugins I wanted to go ahead with polyang as it is simple, light and does the job but came accross the above mentioned issue.

Another question is: Is it possible to have a static page as the Home page. You specify this page in Dashboard settings/Reading. Obviosly you can specify only one (in one language)……..

Peter

Many thanks Christine.

Peter