Polylang – Slider Does Not Change With Language Switch – Catch Responsive Theme

Hello

Did you fill your translations in the option “Strings translation”?

The slider is not an option in the “Strings Translation”
Interestingly, the featured picture of pages DOES change with the language switch, but the slider images do not.

Help?
Thanks

but the slider images do not.

It’s the sliders of your theme or a plugin?

By which option your set up your slider?

Slider of the theme.
Slider is set up through Appearance –> Customize –>Featured Slider Options

but the slider images do not.

I set in Featured Page # 1 and Featured Page # 2 english pages with a featured image different of its french translation.
When I change the language the slider image change too.

It works if kept disable the option “Featured image” in Settings > Languages > Settings > Synchronization.

Odd. It doesn’t work for me. The option “featured image” in settings is not checked.

In your pages, do you change the defaults settings of the “Catch Responsive Options” at the bottom? There are three tabs:

Layout Options
Header Featured Image Options
Single Page/Post Image Layout

Mine are all set to ‘default’

Mine are all set to ‘default’

The same.

Chrysti, have you tried viewing the page ‘live’ and not simply from the preview.

I find that the slider featured items change with the language in the preview but does not work ‘live.’

One last thing I have noticed. After I preview the different languages on the sliders. The last slider previewed is then used on all the language pages when viewed “live”

Hi!

This is an incompatibility of your theme with multilingual plugins. It is due to the fact that once the slider has been created, it is cached in a transient by the theme. And so when you visit the homepage in another language, the theme gets it from the cache instead of creating a new one in the other language.

The fix is straightforward for the theme authors and I suggest that you contact them so that they make the transient name language dependent (using get_locale() would make it compatible with all multilingual plugins without using any plugin dependent function).

Thanks for looking into that. I am tempted to switch to a different theme as I am not too far along in development. Any suggestions that has a slider like Catch Responsive that polylang works well with?

Again, much appreciated!

Hey. I have the same problem. As a quick temporary fix you can edit the file ./wp-content/themes/catch-responsive/inc/catchresponsive-featured-slider.php

Find

function catchresponsive_featured_slider() {
        global $post, $wp_query;
        //catchresponsive_flush_transients();

Here you can see commented out function that deletes all cached stuff. Uncommenting it will slow your site down really much, but you can add this right after that code piece:
delete_transient( 'catchresponsive_featured_slider' );

But yet again, this corrections will be erased on theme update and its ugly by itself =(