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[seaneo Friend seaneoJoin date: December 2009Posts: 421Downloads:4Uploads:49 Thanks: 244 Thanked: 12 times in 1 posts]

#181088

Hello!

Can anybody point me in the right direction to have 3 language flags and have it switch back and forth between the 3 when a user clicks on the flags? We already have our translated content in 3 languages, this was all translated months ago, I just need to implement it. I searched the forums for JA WALL, and is it just me or has nobody asked about this before? thank you!

[swissa Friend swissaJoin date: November 2011Posts: 1955Downloads:7Uploads:277 Thanks: 175 Thanked: 717 times in 572 posts]

#468598

Have you ever done a multi-language site before in Joomla?

You need to have in effect 3 sites in one. That means you need separate menüs, separate content etc for each of the languages if you want to follow the Joomla way (i.e. not Joomfish etc).

Here is a link that may give you some pointers.

I have deleted search out Wall and used the search position for the flags – hope that helps.

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#468599

Thanks Swissa , I really appreciate it,

No I have not done multi-language in Joomla before.

I am downloading the other 3 languages and installing them now, I hope this works for the JA WAll template!:) cheers

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#468610

Okay good I got through about step 6 of this install guide ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/82768844/Joomla-2-5-multi-language-website-without-using-3rd-extensions-in-10-steps ) …, and I enabled language filter and added 4 languages as content languages so those steps are out of the way, and then I paused to build a few content items to test, but shouldn’t by now the language drop down menu be working at http://173.254.15.37/next ? right now it just shows as an empty drop down – thank you

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#468663

You need to get to 7b of your tutorial to get there!!

All the menüs need to have a home page menü item and that needs to be assigned to a language – i.e. it has a flag next to it and the default home page has a star.

🙂

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#468727

Please read the user guide about a muli-lingual site and this can be used for JOOMLA j2.5 and JA Wall template

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#468752

Hi Swissa – …mamamia! that was a long tedious process – but looking good so far! : http://173.254.15.37/next/

Now I’m just trying to figure out how to have all the English content (the only content I have loaded so far) to show up on the English page…

thanks Ninja lead for the manual – I hope I did most of it all ready without any goof up’s! cheers..

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#468753

<em>@seaneo 340559 wrote:</em><blockquote>
Now I’m just trying to figure out how to have all the English content (the only content I have loaded so far) to show up on the English page…
</blockquote>

Well done. Now you must ensure that you have separate languages in Category Manager – just makes it easier in the end.

Then ensure that for content you save it to the language category and pick it’s language to only english.

The reason I suggest this way is so that you can do one language completely, then just bulk batch it to other languages! It will save you so much time.

Make sure if you use any modules that you set them to english and then copy them and set to the other languages etc.

Another hint – make sure in Plug-in Manager: System – Language Filter you say yes to Menu Associations. If you pick this you can then align all pages in menü item manager so that if someone clicks on the flag on any menu item, they stay on that item and the language changes. Otherwise it goes to home of the new language.

Keep going!! 🙂

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#468759

Hi Swissa, okay! I plan to bulk batch: check, System-language filter: menu association: check,

How does it look? 🙂 http://173.254.15.37/next/

Ninja Lead, thanks for that manual, I see that after unpublishing the Main Menu item (instructed in page 10 of http://help.joomla.org/files/EN-GB_multilang_tutorial.pdf ), that my Home button has disappeared. Couldn’t this create confusion if a user indeed wants to go to the home of any particular language they are in?

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#468763

<em>@seaneo 340567 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi Swissa, okay! I plan to bulk batch: check, System-language filter: menu association: check,

How does it look? http://173.254.15.37/next/</blockquote>

Looks good so well done. Once you get the hang of multi-language it is quite easy. Just needs lots more content – as always in web stuff, content is king!!

<em>@seaneo 340567 wrote:</em><blockquote>Ninja Lead, thanks for that manual, I see that after unpublishing the Main Menu item (instructed in page 10 of http://help.joomla.org/files/EN-GB_multilang_tutorial.pdf ), that my Home button has disappeared. Couldn’t this create confusion if a user indeed wants to go to the home of any particular language they are in?</blockquote>

You should keep the home menü published for every language. You might find yourself adding further menü items up on the top bar over time.

I noticed your css is wrong for the logo, (and that you’ve posted it on another thread).

You need to go to your theme.css and look for this code

#logo.logo-image h1 {
background: none; < change this to none as shown
width: 60px;
height: 60px;
right: 0;
bottom: 20px;
position: absolute;
}

🙂

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#468797

Thanks Swissa,

home menu button:
so it is not mandatory to follow that step in page 10 for languages to work properly? If not, I agree I will just republish it?

logo:
darn, part of the reason I went with minimalist theme/style was the bigger logo area than the default theme/style.
It’s not my code, it’s the code that came with JA WALL – all’s I did was replace the JA WALL logo with a 60×60 graphic. Anyway I could not find that code in the next/templates/jawall/themes/minimalist/themes.css file – is that the right path?

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#468798

Swissa, my earlier run with setting up languages went so well, and I did not make any more advances yet (I’m trying) , but if you look at http://173.254.15.37/next/ and notice it defaults to the English language, on purpose, but if you click photos of Mendoza or Spas, the article items do not appear, I’ve looked all over the backend for clues to this , what do you think? thank you

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#468799

Also, the words on the menu on the top left-hand side of http://173.254.15.37/next/ are just a little too long, and users can’t see the last letter or so – what is an easy to widen this menu just a smidgen so it doesn’t break ant responsive issues? Thank you!

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#468824

@seaneo: About change logo on JA Wall

Change image here
<blockquote>templates/ja_wall/images/logo.png</blockquote>
Change css file:
<blockquote>templates/ja_wall/css/template.css</blockquote>

.logo-image,
.logo-text {
background: #690
border-bottom: 5px solid #84b12a
float: left;
height: 40px;
position: relative;
width: 120px;
z-index: 1000;
text-align: center;
}

.logo-image h1 {
color: #fff
display: block;
height: 17px;
margin: 12px 0 0 20px;
padding: 0;
width: 79px;
}

.logo-image h1 a {
background: url(../images/logo.png) no-repeat 0px 0px;
display: block;
text-indent: -999em;
width: 79px;
}

[swissa Friend swissaJoin date: November 2011Posts: 1955Downloads:7Uploads:277 Thanks: 175 Thanked: 717 times in 572 posts]

#468834

For your css file – it is here – http://173.254.15.37/next/templates/ja_wall/themes/minimalist/css/theme.css

I see the articles if I click on them with the images. Try clearing your browser cache or restart it!

For the left side menü –

look for this code in http://173.254.15.37/next/templates/ja_wall/css/template.css

#sidebar .moduletable {

• float: none;
• width: 100%;

}

and change the width as you need – say to 108%

Hope that helps!

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