CKatzman

A few weeks ago, I already tried changing all the various Polylang settings, including permalink structure and front page settings, one at a time, checking after each change if this solved the problem. Unfortunately, the front page remained inaccessible whatever settings I choose.

I have also tried testing with a theme which claims to be equipped for French. I deleted Hebrew, designated a French page, menu, and translation of the English front page, but couldn’t get rid of the 500 error. Since I didn’t know how to find the .po and .mo files in this theme, I don’t know if they are there. When I contacted my webhost, they reported a pot file in that theme, but I couldn’t find it.

A 500 error message can be caused by a file permission error. I have not yet having provided the .po and .mo files that Polylang’s documentation said must be provided by the website master to the theme, and I suspect that this is the cause of the problem.

I have a few questions:
1) Can I simply copy the files I need from Polylang into my theme, including .po and .mo files for Hebrew and the .pot file?
3) Once I have these files, how do I get into the theme to put these files into it?
? through my website control panel: file control/wordpress/wp-content/themes (All that I found there was the child theme my brother-in-law wrote for me, with no hint of my current theme.)
? through my website control panel: file control/wordpress/wp-content/languages
? through a different way?
4) Once I get into the theme, where do I place the files? Is this in a folder called lang? If there is no such folder, where do I put it?
6) When a new version of the theme will be released, will upgrading to the new version wipe out these files? If so, can I put them in a child theme instead?
7) The documentation says, “Create one front page per language”. I find that only the most recently created front page is recognized. How does one create more than one front page? The documentation says that each page must have a language classification, and that establishing a translation is optional. Is it necessary to establish a translation for the front page in order to create a front page in another language?