Skip the + sign and then link two pages as translations

  • Resolved ant123

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    6 years, 11 months ago

    OK, I have this quite tricky case where I can only edit very complex WP pages with a “Visual/Frontend Editor” (if I switch to the plain text editor, it messes everything up visually), which means I can’t create a Polylang translation of a page with the + sign, because this creates a blank new page, so I have to use a duplicate plugin called “Duplicate page”.

    Now that I have created and translated my “French homepage”, is there a way, with Polylang, to link this page to the English homepage or is it mandatory to use the + sign for Polylang to understand which page is the translation of which?

    Thanks in advance

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  • Thread Starter ant123

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    Solution found.
    I’ve been able to link the pages I wanted as versions of each other.

    For anyone wondering, the solution is to type-in the title of the page.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by matijamrkaic. Reason: Solution found
    Thread Starter ant123

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    Yes. That was the solution, but sometimes, starting to type the name of the page you want to link to does not trigger the drop-down menu with pages suggestions, that’s what puzzled me.

    Maybe in the future a more intuitive interface could be a link such as “Set this as translation of…” that would open a window with the list of pages.

    Another thing I found quite confusing as a beginner with Polylang was the page that lists WP pages: the pencil is for the page in the other language, see here
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sNvtM4Ir-cNylCHZkM3aeHAqAIzYzicq/view?usp=sharing
    IMO, it couldn’t be more confusing to the beginner.

    Displaying a pencil for both languages would make things much more intuitive.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by ant123.
    • This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by ant123.

    What I would find more intuitive for me would be to be able to work on the translation in a different tap and not in an entirely different page. The plugin qTranslateX was doing that and it was so much easier. (But the SEO couldn’t changed and neither were the widgets…) Just a thought! ??

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