How to translate custom menu link URL?

@hopper08,

where you want to go with your custom link?

but the URL of the link stays in one language.

Links can not be set separately. If all is well then that is not necessary.

We have links in our menu to pages outside of the site and the URL are different in English and in French. In the original iteration of the site using the old qTranslate plugin, we had to go into the database and override the link URL value with something that looked like this:

[:en]https://en_page_url.html[:fr]https://fr_page_url.html

However this isn’t working using qTranslate X. Instead when I mouse over the links on the page they look like:

https://mywordpresssite.com/en/%5B:en%5Dhttps://en_page_url.html%5B:fr%5Dhttps://fr_page_url.html

when really the link should show either https://en_page_url.html or https://fr_page_url.html depending on the language.

@hopper08,

A bit difficult to understand.

We have links in our menu to pages outside of the site and the URL are different in English and in French.

Can you show me an example with a link to the site?

Maybe this helps.

FAQ: How do I translate custom configuration fields, which are not handled by language switch buttons?

Section:

You may also embed language-neutral text in-between the language-specific content, like this:

For an example please see this link:
https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ci-ic/

This is what wee currently have online now, it is in an older version of WP with the old qTranslate. I’m currently doing testing on an dev server testing the upgrade of WP ti the latest version and using qTranslateX.

In the link above you see a left nav with items like these in it:
-Current Issue
-About Construction Innovation
-Order Codes and Guides
-CCMC New Product Evaluations
-Subscribe
-Feedback
-Archives

This nave is created using a WP menu.

4 of these links are within the WP site and 3 are not. If you hover over them you’ll see that 4 of them start with “https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ci-ic/” as their URL, which is the WP site, but 3 of them don’t:
-Order Codes and Guides
-CCMC New Product Evaluations
-Subscribe

These have urls pointing to other places on the NRC site outside of WordPress:
ex: https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/subscribe/index.html
Each of these external links has an English version and a French version. The French version of the link immediately above is:
https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/fra/abonnez/index.html, going to an entirely different page on the French site.

Right now in the WP menu for this left nav, I can have the label of these links translated in EN and FR but I can only use 1 url, I can’t have a different url for it in each language, which I require. Even the hack we were using with the old qTranslate of going in to the database and physically overwriting the value with
[:en]https://en_page_url.html[:fr]https://fr_page_url.html
isn’t working either.

Does this help illustrate my issue?
Thanks, I really appreciate your helping me.

@hopper08,

does your theme has the ability for scripts per page (for page-specific script)?

@hopper08,

might be another way.

Create 2 links in menu – Appearance – widgets – links

Place them among each other.

EN goes to link EN only Navigation Label for English with Name
and Navigation Label for French empty

FR goes to link FR only Navigation Label for French with Name
and Navigation Label for English empty

See how it works

I’m not sure I totally understand what you’re suggesting.
Could you please explain with more detail?

Appearance – Menus – links (sorry not widgets)

makes it clearer?

Create 2 links in menu – again sorry for widgets

@hopper08,

this is resolved?

I’m sorry for the delay, I’ve been quite ill and not at work to test this out. I will test it soon and let you know.
Thanks!

@hopper08,

Get well soon, take your time!

hey guys,

I just want to confirm the hack above works, in case someone else needs it. This issue has been driving me mad.

Thanks for the quick fix

Hello,

I’m building a multilingual site with english german and french.

The hack above works insofar, that it hides menus in that language where the navigation menu is empty. But the URL gets translated. I mean:

Menu Setup:
URL: https://foo/en/
navigation menu english: [empty]
navigation menu french: Eglish
navigation menu german: Eglish

This results in a hidden menu when the site is in english. When I change the language to french, the menu is visible, reading “English”. But the URI where it points to has been translated to https://foo/fr/. Same in german.

Any idea?

I’ve just read the FAQ to the end…
The issue is solved and I have no further questions, sorry!