Photo album plus and polylang

Make sure the wppa shortcodes are both in the english as well as in the other languages text.

wppa is not tested with polylang, wppa is fully compatible with qTranslate and qTranslate X

I may have to switch to qTranslate Plus, but before I do, I’d like to just try and see if I can get this working since all my other pages are functioning with polylang.

I have the first language as English, the second as Spanish. When in Spanish, I can load the main album page without a problem
https://www.undermexicanskies.com/gasteropodos/

Still in the Spanish menu, if you click Ampularidae, everything works fine because in the edit album page “link to” (below link type) I have changed the link to the Spanish page translation of the English page. The code on this Spanish page is simply [wppa][/wppa], which works (same as on the English page).

However, if you click on any of the other subalbums (I haven’t changed these), because the edit album page “link to” (below link type) is set to an English page (Beachcombing)the menu reverts to English.

But to change each subalbum so that it links to either the English page or the Spanish page means making a duplicate subalbum (I imagine with a different name) so that it can have its own link to either the Spanish or English page.

Is duplication of a subalbum easily done? And if so, does that mean I have doubled the size of my site? Or perhaps there is a differnt way of linking subalbums just to the album content, which would not involve the menu? I’m not sure how I would do this though.

As always, thanks for your help.

The problem with polylang ( and also with WPML ) is that there are different versions ( page ids ) for each language.

If there is a good indication on what language we are, the links from wppa elements will have a language attribute, like on https://wppa.opajaap.nl/
When you switch to Nederlands, you get &lang=nl in the querystring, or /lnnl/ in the url. This will be maintained by wppa in links.

If you can configure polylang as such that it ‘publicates’ the language we are in, like above, that would be worth trying.

If this works, also the static texts within wppa will be automaticly translated, and the dynamic texts ( photo and album names and descriptions ) also, if the language shortcodes used are processed by polylang.

Example using qTranslate shortcodes: [en:]My Name[nl:]Mijn Naam[fr:]Mon Nom produces ‘My Name’ in the right language automaticly.

If Polylang supports such shortcodes ( may be different format than from qTanslate ), use them and tick the boxes in Table IX-J0,1 and 2. ( This is not required for qTranslate, it processes [nl:]... etc always ).

If you want to copy albums, create a new target album, and bulk copy the photos using the Bulk link on the album table.

This will use also double the disk space.

Ok. Sounds like I have a few options. I’ll explore polylang a bit longer with shortcodes and then maybe try qtranslate. I’ll let you know what worked. Thanks for your help.