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How to get perch_pages_navigation to output bi-lingual navigation
I am retro-fitting a website using Perch. So far its going great and I have included a Mandarin language option by following your tutorial @ https://solutions.grabaperch.com/architecture/how-do-i-create-a-multilingual-site
I have run into an issue when perch generates subpages and outputs the sub-nav.
I can get the desired effect in the admin (I.e English / Chinese specific regions) but I cannot get it output the sub-nav. It defaults back to the top level navigation.
I am not really familiar with php. This is the code I'm using in the page template:
<div class="sub-panel-content">
<?php
perch_pages_navigation(array(
'levels' => 1,
'from-path' => '/staff'.$lang,
));
?>
</div>
site url : peregrine.rljr.im
Can you advise?
With this:
that suggests the parent page has a path something like
/staffen- is that correct?Hi Drew,
No. When I click on the link - it goes to /staff/index.php
?lang=en / ?lang=ch does not get appended to the URL(s) - which is the desired result
/staff - is where the subpages are generated by perch.
Another way to ask my question is "how do I get perch_pages_navigation to recognise and output both language options?"
So I think this:
should be
Yes, I've made that amend and I am getting the respective languages now. Thanks.
I think my issue is when I create a sub-page in perch.
Obviously it only creates 1 page not 2. So the navigation is in the language you used (ie. English). This is then used by perch_pages_navigation to generate the sub-nav for '/staff'.
This mean that the Staff Member links will always show in English, even on the Manderin versions.
I suppose I need a way of feeding in the Manderin translation of the page title into the sub-nav's links, so it at least appears to the user in the correct language.
Do you think this is possible?
https://peregrine.rljr.im/staff/?lang=en
If you add the translation into the page attributes, this can be output in the navigation.
https://docs.grabaperch.com/docs/pages/page-attributes/
Sorry to be a pain in the a*se -
I followed the second strategy on the https://solutions.grabaperch.com/architecture/how-do-i-create-a-multilingual-site tutotial.
So I have a single page that outputs alternate regions based on the language choice.
I don't get how to output alternate page titles (1 english / 1 manderin) using the <perch:pages /> tags in an attributes template, that then get picked up by perch_navigation_pages as the nav links.
Can you elaborate a bit more?
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