[Kremena Dimitrova]

Hi there,

I am using the Parabola theme and I think it’s awesome.

I’m just wondering, can I make my site in more then one language, as in Bulgarian and English?

Any help will be appreciated!

Best regards,
Kremena

[Kremena Dimitrova]

…and I’ve now used the plugin Polylang.

I have translated all posts and pages except the presentation page.

Can you tell me please how can I do that?

Thanks in advance…

[Kremena Dimitrova]

…anyone…..I really need help! 🙁
Please!

[Zed]

Because of the way how content of the presentation page is saved, it does not support translations.

If you want a multi-language site, you’ll have to not use the presentation page.

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[QuaintJames]

Hey Kremena – all is not necessarily lost. You could use javascript to replace any custom text you add in on the presentation page. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s something. For me it’s that or abandon the template – and it’s a good template.

[Nicographx]

Hey QuaintJames,

nice idea ! But I don’t know a lot about javascript. Did you have any infomation about ? How to ?

Thanks.

[Alex]

Hi Zed,

I do not use the presentation page on my website, but use the magazine layout, and Polylang plugin for translations.
The main language is English, the second Italian.
I wrote some articles that in the magazine layout appear in Italics and the same happens for some widgets on the right bar.
Is there any way to fix it?
Thanks

[MrAwesome]

I had the same issues. However, I solve most of them. Let me explain.

I use qTranslate, wich works quite well except for one thing: slugs and (I think because I don’t use it) tags can’t be translated. Despite this, you can manage to translate everything.

There is a “shortcode” you can use. Imagine you have tree languages (en, es, pt). The tittle of a widget can be translate by putting “[:en]English Text[:es]Spanish Text[:pt]Other Language”. It works fine. This can be used along all the theme options text areas.

Regarding the front page and what Zed says, we have a problem with the links. If you put “[:en]http://en.blabla.com[:es]http://es.blabla.com[:pt]http://pt.blabla.com” or whatever, it will not work as this doesn’t validate an URL and the link will not be saved. You will have to edit the files /parabola/admin/sanitize.php and /parabola/admin/settings.php and remove the esc_url_xx() functions of desiged configuration fields. For instance, in sanitize.php, for the URL of the columns of the front page, comment the line:

$input[‘parabola_columnlink1’] = esc_url_raw($input[‘parabola_columnlink1’]);

This is just an brief comments, but hope this help.

Regards,
MrAwesome

PD: Best option is to use a child theme, I know…
PD2: Great theme!
PD3: The theme can include this tricks by default! 😉

[Zed]

That is indeed a good trick. I did not use qTranslate before.

Unfortunately, concerning PD3, we cannot do that. The theme would no longer get approved by WordPress if it does not perform proper sanitization of input URLs.

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