Cannot add language, pages not found as a result!

Actually to be precise the pages read:

Page not found
No posts found. Try a different search?
Sorry, no posts matched your search. Try again with some different keywords.

Hi,

I’ve also tried switching to twentytwelve theme, same is still happening!!

Any advice?

Thanks

I’m using latest Polylang and WP 3.8.3…

Hi!

I don’t know Transposh so don’t know if it can lead to conflicts.
Was your backup done before installing Polylang?

If yes, I would try this:
* restore the database with your backup
* delete Transposh with the red delete link in plugins table. If the plugin is well written, it should remove everything linked to Transposh
* de-activate all other plugins and switch to twenty twelve (as you did before)
* activate Polylang and try adding languages.

I was wondering if transposh was leaving something behind even though I have deactivated and deleted it.

I have already followed those steps and made sure that Transposh has been deleted before installing Polylang.

I was having performance issues before with Transposh and various conflicts, so that would suggest to me it’s not so well written! How can I make sure that even after being deleted there is no trace of anything that Transposh has done?

I have no idea how to find traces of Transposh in DB. Maybe that’s not the problem though.

What happens when you try to add a language. Do you get any error message? Did you try with other languages than those you need?

Thanks for the reply.

If I try to add English I get just a white screen!

Any other language nothing happens at all. When I submit it the page refreshes as if it’s done but there are none listed in the table, then the site is broken as a result. Each page reads as below:

Page not found
No posts found. Try a different search?
Sorry, no posts matched your search. Try again with some different keywords.

There is something really wrong on your site.

A blank screen generally means a fatal error. In wp-config.php, could you replace

define('WP_DEBUG', false);

by

define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('SCRIPT_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);

And reproduce the blank screen.
Then go look in your wp-content directory, there should be a file called debug.log with error messages in it. Please report these errors.

It seems however that languages (at least the first one) are partially created. I believe that’s the reason why your site appears broken. Polylang does not make anything on frontend if you haven’t created any language. But as soon as you create one, it starts filtering everything. But since you could not assign languages to posts, it does’nt find any content to display. That’s why you should get the page not found.

One question: Have you categories or tags with name ‘en’ or ‘English’?

Hi,

Thanks again for your help so far. I’ve been away so only just got round to trying this.

I added UK language and got the white screen. The URL ends like this:
/wp-admin/admin.php?page=mlang&noheader=true.

My log says the following:

[26-Apr-2014 13:49:58] WordPress database error Table ‘wp_terms’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired for query SELECT term_id FROM wp_terms as t WHERE t.slug = ‘en’ made by do_action(‘settings_page_mlang’), call_user_func_array, PLL_Settings->languages_page, PLL_Admin_Model->add_language, wp_insert_term, term_exists
[26-Apr-2014 13:49:58] WordPress database error Table ‘wp_terms’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired for query SELECT term_id FROM wp_terms as t WHERE t.slug = ‘en’ made by do_action(‘settings_page_mlang’), call_user_func_array, PLL_Settings->languages_page, PLL_Admin_Model->add_language, wp_insert_term, wp_unique_term_slug, term_exists
[26-Apr-2014 13:49:58] WordPress database error Duplicate entry ‘en’ for key ‘slug’ for query INSERT INTO wp_terms (name,slug,term_group) VALUES (‘English’,’en’,0) made by do_action(‘settings_page_mlang’), call_user_func_array, PLL_Settings->languages_page, PLL_Admin_Model->add_language, wp_insert_term
[26-Apr-2014 13:49:58] PHP Fatal error: Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/integral/wp-content/plugins/polylang/admin/admin-model.php on line 47

SO it is a fatal error as you said, although the rest means nothing to me! :-/

So it seems that your wp_terms table got some issues. You have to repair it. This can be done for example with phpmyadmin.

Hi Chouby,

Back again, finally got around to repairing the wp_terms table in phpmyadmin. This seems to have worked!! Amazing..

Do you know what might have caused this, a dodgy plugin maybe?

Another question – I have it working so that you click on the language in the sidebar widget and that translates the page. Only if I click on another menu item (that I have also translated) it switches back to default (English). Does in not stay in the language once switched or am I missing something?

Thanks

Pat

Hi!

The problem should not come from a specific plugin. The issue should come from the database server (reasons could be server crash, server hardware failure, …)

You should check how you setup your menus. You must have one menu per language, each menu with menu items only in the correct language. It’s a frequent mistake to put a menu item in the wrong language (There is no protection in Polylang against this).

Thanks a lot, got it all working perfectly now..great ??

Just one more thing. I’m using this theme:
https://themextemplates.com/demo/academy/

I’m managing to translate everything I need to so far except for the ‘sign in’ and ‘register’ buttons on the top right. I’m guessing this might be too specific to the theme therefore you won’t be able to answer that, but worth a try!

These strings are probably internal to your themes and translations should be included in po/mo files. Try the Codestyling Localization plugin to translate them.

Hi,

Yes they are and yes it looks like that’s the answer! Only when I go to edit the theme specific strings (on my local MAMP site) I get this error:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jyfs8qe075raouz/Screenshot%202014-05-14%2013.59.44.png

But it works on my remote version of the site which doesn’t have Polylang installed yet! Any ideas on what could have caused this and if it sounds like a conflict with Polylang or not?

In my opinion, the error has nothing to do with Polylang. Did you modify your theme on your local site?

Otherwise you can make the translation on your remote version and get back the translations files (.po/.mo) back to your local install to check that everything is ok.