menu not switching

Well one thing I did was to change the standard wp_nav_menu entry to:

wp_nav_menu(array(
'theme_location' => 'primary#' . pll_current_language()
));

Now it swaps the menus properly for the primary location, but I’m pretty sure that’s not the intended use.

I have the same problem and moreyummystuff solution didn?t work that good for me.

I’m pretty sure that’s not the intended use

For sure not. Polylang is intended to be be fully compatible with default themes.

Which versions of WordPress and Twenty Twelve are you using?

It’s a brand new installation of WP 3.6 and twentytwelve is ver 1.2.

Have you other plugins active which may conflict. Because I of course tested this configuration and got no issue.

Could you explain how you did set your menus?

The only other plugin active was Advanced Custom Fields which hadn’t been setup at all, nothing was defined for it. I tried disabling it but nothing changed.

To setup the menus I went to Appearance->Menus->Manage Locations and assigned the two menus I had created to each language; english and greek in this case. If I go to “Edit Menus” it lists the assignments properly in the parenthesis next to the menu name in the dropdown.

Previous to that I had added greek as an extra language without changing any of the settings that polylang suggested for the language (ISO code, locale, etc).

In language settings I have:

– Default language: english
– Detect browser language: disabled
– URL modifications: option 2
– Hide URL language for default language: disabled
– When using static front page, redirect the language page: enabled
– Activate languages and translations for media: enabled

I’ll install WP & the plugin later on in a separate new installation and see if it works then with all default settings and compare options. Before I installed polylang I had made some changes to settings (pretty permalinks, etc), but even if I restore those to default currently there is no change. Also ACF was installed before I added polylang.

Could you tell me which names you gave to your menus? Have you a link? Maybe this could help.

After taking a peek at the php error logs I found what it was. On my local dev machine, which this is on, I use symlinks for the plugin directories – apparently this line in polylang.php

define('POLYLANG_DIR', dirname(__FILE__)); // our directory

Resolves to the symlink target (__FILE__ behavior was changed after PHP 4.something) so as a consequence it silently failed to create the termmeta table on activation. However any subsequent queries to that table generated entries in the error log which gave it away.

Setting the plugins to a normal directory and activating (after clearing previous installation db entries) works out fine.

Again, thanks for your time.