How to display all posts in all languages pages in Polylang

Hi!

This is currently not a feature included in Polylang

Is this going to be implemented? Or may be somebody has already a solution? I know there was one plugin called “Polylang displays all posts”, but I suppose it is not working anymore with the latest versions of Polylang.

+1 for the “all languages” feature.

Can’t be a big problem as the admin area already has the “lang=all” query var.

+1 for the “all languages” feature from me too ??

I now have a client with 4 languages and they only wish to post their news/blog in English. Also they require the widgets to read the English posts. How to do that? It is really too complicated and time consuming to translate all posts and to create 4 posts all in English seems to be really ‘excessive’…

I have seen many posts about this subject, i.e.:

• plugin-polylang-all-languages-option-for-posts-and-pages of 3 years ago. The mentioned plugin “polylang displays all posts” isn’t working anymore.
• plugin-polylang-showing-default-language-post-if-no-translation-is-available of 2 years ago. In view of maintenance and updates op WP, Polylang, theme, etc. changing base code is not to be advised.
• show-posts-from-other-languages from only 7 months ago. Also a strong discussion on sowing posts in default language.
• …and many more.

I hope a new feature can be made available soon!?

+1 from me, too, of course.

In addition to this, some other – ugly – workarounds came to my mind:

• In a desperate attempt to express to my visitors that the language switcher won’t give them a 1:1 translated mirror of the other language, I posted a small text just beneath Polylang’s language switcher like this: “Some posts are not translated and only available on the German pages. Feel free to use the language switcher!” (You can see it if you click on my user name.) But I doubt that many folks will read texts in the side bar…
• I’ve not yet done it, but probably will try it in the next weeks: For each not translated post creating a ‘stub’ post in the other language(s). This stub should have the same title as the original post, and the text – and the excerpt – should be something like: “Unfortunately this post is untranslated. To see the original post (German) just click <here> or use the language switcher in the side bar.” To avoid any Google penalties a <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" /> tag should be added. (This can easily be done with plugins like Add Meta Tags.)

hey guys,,
how about use ‘lang’ arguments on your query to get all posts from all languages?

something like this,

global $polylang;
foreach ($polylang->get_languages_list() as $term)
    $langs[] = $term->slug;

$posts = get_posts(array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'lang' => implode(',', $langs),
));

echo "<pre>";
print_r($posts);

that’s not what you want?

@qutek: thanks for your advise.

I would like to try, but I am not a programmer. How would I add this code to my website? Is this something which need to be placed in the plugin code? Or could this be inserted somewhere else where it does not effect any future updates of WP, theme, plugin, et cetera?

@qutek

What is needed is simply the option to display a post in a default language (fallback language) — in case there is no translation for that post.

However, a requirement is that this option can be activated on a per-language basis. For example:

The visitors of my German site should see the English post, if there is no translation of that post. Many Germans are able to read English text. So, no need to hide it, if no German translation is available. But, on the other hand, I don’t want the visitors of my English site to see German posts, if there is no English translation available. (Very few English speakers are able to read German.)

Tom

I have the same problem that a client wants his main site in 4 different languages but his blog posts should only be in one language mad displayed for every language.
So I am definitely for an “all languages” feature.

@qutek:

I really need this to work soonest possible…

Can you let me know where I schould place this code: in which file and where?

Thanks a lot,
Monique

Just adding my +1 vote for the development of this feature as well. My site is Dutch-English, but all my blogpost are in English. I’m at a loss how I can have visitors to my Dutch version directly access my EN blog. (Of course just linking it to the English version site is an option, but then when they would visit another page, the language would have suddenly switched to EN.)