Overview page "events" doesn't work with multisite language switcher

Hi @silb0r,

If I go to canto.com/de/events/ on your site, that seems to work fine for me. And if I click through to any individual event, that seems to work fine for me, too, e.g. canto.com/de/event/workshop-digitale-rechte-management/

Can you clarify your precise issue here a bit? Is it just that when you’re on canto.com/events, and you click “Language > Deutsch”, you’d like it to redirect to to canto.com/de/events instead of just canto.com/de/ (which is where it redirects to at present)?

If that is not your issue, sorry for my misunderstanding –?elaborate on things a bit more, include screenshots or any other materials you can think of that might help, and we’ll hopefully provide a more useful answer! ??

Thanks,
George

Hi George,

thank you for your help ??

The individual events aren’t part of the issue, they work totally perfect.

Can you clarify your precise issue here a bit? Is it just that when you’re on canto.com/events, and you click “Language > Deutsch”, you’d like it to redirect to to canto.com/de/events instead of just canto.com/de/ (which is where it redirects to at present)?

That’s the exact problem. It redirects to the wrong page.
For example if you’re on canto.com/de/events and try to choose Language -> English you’ll get to canto.com, but it should be canto.com/events.

Shall I still provide a screenshot?

Thank you again!!

Hopefully we can find a way to fix this ??

Kind regards,
Martin

Hey Martin,

Cool, thanks for confirming the issue here. No screenshots needed ??

It seems to me like this issue would be stemming from the fact that The Events Calendar sort of “fakes” the Events listing pages –?if that sounds like a bad design decision, it’s not, because if was a “real”/normal WordPress page, we wouldn’t be able to handle the stream of events as well as we currently do and have such robust support for different event views.

However, that does sometimes cause issues like this one. I bet the Language Switching plugin is looking for a page slug or page ID, but failing to find it.

Unfortunately, the only way around this that I can think of is to edit that Language Switching plugin’s code directly and find where this link is generated (i.e. https://cloudup.com/cnTZwsHC4Rr). Once you find where this link is generated, you should be able to add an additional check to see if the current page is an Events Calendar page, and if so, manually ensure that /events/ is appended to the redirection URL.

For an abstract example, let’s say that in the language switching plugin the code for generating that link ends with something standard/expected like this:

return $redirect_url;

You could modify that to look like this instead:

if ( function_exists( 'tribe_is_event_query' ) && tribe_is_event_query() ) {
    return $redirect_url . '/events/;
}

return $redirect_url;

I’m sorry that it’s not a more specific code example, but hopefully that and the information here does help in some way.

Cheers!
George

tribe_is_event_query

Hi George,

thank you so much!!

That explained a lot and helped me with the solution.

Damn that was a pain ??

If anyone is interested in my solution Multisite Language Switcher.

Again TY!! ??