Use POlylang for Menus

[Joris]

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 !

[Towfiq I.]

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..

[joris]

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

[Towfiq I.]

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

[Joris]

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

[Joris]

Hi,

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

Thanks

[Towfiq I.]

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