Use POlylang for Menus

• #112768

  
  Joris
  

  On March 29, 2014 at 11:29 pm

  Hi !

  Before moving to the Pro version I would like to check a last thing… I am using polylang plugin for translation and it works very well for all the pages. On the other hand I am not able to translate the menus.

  Is this possible?

  BTW, you indicate that the Pro version includes translation, what do you mean ?

  Thanks !

  #113025

  
  Towfiq I.
  

  administrator

  On March 30, 2014 at 3:27 pm

  1. Please make sure you setup the menu from Appearance> Menus to translate your menu with polylang.

  2. it means the text strings that are used in the theme are translated. e.g: share this, search etc..

  #113156

  
  joris
  

  On March 30, 2014 at 11:02 pm

  What you mentionned is already OK. The issues I have are the following:

  1. Side Menu Translation (the one in appearance menu)
  2. Tiles for the sliders
  3. The 4 blocks on the frontpage

  Thanks

  #113333

  
  Towfiq I.
  

  administrator

  On March 31, 2014 at 7:16 am

  you can do all that if the polylang plugin have any shortcode. does it?

  #113413

  
  Joris
  

  On March 31, 2014 at 10:43 am

  Hi,

  I have purchased the theme anyway 🙂 Thanks for your word BTW.

  Point #1 is OK as I specified a different menu. For point # 2 and #3 I’ll check if polylang offers shortcodes or not

  #122500

  
  Joris
  

  On April 14, 2014 at 9:08 am

  Hi,

  Seems polylang does not uses shortcodes but string translation. Any idea on how to solve it then ?

  Thanks

  #122857

  
  Towfiq I.
  

  administrator

  On April 14, 2014 at 9:46 pm

  yes a wrordpress user wrote a custom shortcode function. Add this to your functions.php

  // [polylang lang="en"]English[/polylang][polylang lang="sp"]Spanish[/polylang]
  function polylang_shortcode($atts, $content = null)
  {
  	if (empty($content))
  		return '';
  	extract( shortcode_atts( array('lang' => ''), $atts ) );
  	if (empty($lang))
  		return "<h3>You must specify 'lang' using shortcode: polylang</h3>";
  
  	return ($lang == pll_current_language()) ? $content : '';
  }
  add_shortcode('polylang', 'polylang_shortcode');

  before this line:

  //Asteria Site title

  then you can use the shortcode like this:

  [polylang lang="en"]English[/polylang][polylang lang="sp"]Spanish[/polylang]

  source: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polylang-shortcode-like-qtranslate-for-theme-options-and-text?replies=17