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Hi Ed,

Thanks for the response.

Yes, I’ve got a translated version of the home page and both the two blog pages (one for the standard blog, one for video posts). At the moment I’m just using one alternate language – Chinese – although I’ve tested it in Spanish & Portuguese to make sure it’s not something odd happening just with the Chinese URLs etc.

On the home page, everything works apart from the blog post page elements which show the titles and nothing else.

On the two stand alone blog pages, it just displays the page title and side bar – the page appears blank. All that’s on there is the blog asset though of course.

I’ve been in contact with the WPML forums too and a guy from there is having a look for me, but so far I haven’t heard back.

Any additional help would be massively appreciated.

Thanks!

Luke

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Thanks Cosmin,

It does work with the blog index page – which suggests that there’s perhaps an issue with the shortcode.

I’ll keep you posted on where I get to and if the WPML guys offer any kind of solution I’ll post that here too.

Thanks for your help so far! 🙂

Cheers,
Luke

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Ok thanks Cosmin, I’ll give it a go!

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Hi Cosmin,

Thanks for the response – I’m also putting the question to WPML on their forums and I’m still waiting for an answer from those guys. Fingers crossed!

Considering the weight of support & recommendation you guys have given to WPML as the tool to use in collaboration with Pinpoint (“Pinpoint is 100% translation and multi-lingual ready” is what it says in my theme’s back-end), it’s pretty disappointing to learn that actually ‘Pinpoint is 100% translation and multi-lingual ready as long as you don’t want to use any of the blog functions we’ve created‘.

Surely this is a fairly big flaw in the relationship between the two platforms which should maybe be documented earlier on?

What you’ve created is great and it’s been a revelation for me to work with. But for me, the two big selling points were – it’s ease of use (my coding knowledge is fairly limited at the moment) and the fact it was already integrated with a robust translation tool. So finding out that the Swift Page Builder doesn’t really work with WPML for blog posts is hugely disappointing – particularly at this stage of the sites development.

I appreciate this is still a WordPress theme and not a bespoke build and that in the end there’s only so much that is possible – but it feels as if you’ve overstated the WPML relationship with Pinpoint a little bit “We have worked with WPML to ensure that Pinpoint provides 100% compatibility”.

As I say mostly I’ve been hugely impressed and don’t want to appear to be demanding unreasonable things from a WordPress theme, but this small flaw is causing me big problems!

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Some further investigation has got me a little closer to solving the problem, but there seems to be a fundamental issue with WPML and how it deals with posts.

Now I have correctly identified my main blog page in >settings >reading that page now displays the English posts within the Chinese translated site – perfect.

But blog posts will only display within this one designated page.

So the blog elements on other parts of the site and any other pages which call different categories of blog (as I have set up) will not show posts – translated or otherwise.

Is there some kind of fix anyone can suggest to get around this?

It really isn’t working for our site as it stands.

Help!!

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Thanks for the response Cosmin.

Does point 1 relate to this issue or the other problem I’m having translating blog posts?
Apologies if that’s an obviously stupid question, I’m not exactly what you’d call a coder!

If it is indeed to edit the name ‘Portfolio’ – is there anything I need to be careful of with POedit conflicting with my WPML installation?

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thanks Ben – you were right, it just wasn’t previewing the change. Once I published using the inner page value to make the change it worked.

🙂

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I’ve now made the site live… this is the only serious issue I need to resolve – some help would be hugely appreciated as I’m at a complete loss as to how to solve it.

http://www.kubeenglish.com/

You can view it there. You’ll see if you translate into Chinese all blog posts completely vanish.

Help!

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Thanks Ben – I have the option ‘Color Customizer’ at the top of the page, but no Customize Site anywhere there or on the main dashboard.

Within Color Customizer there is the option ‘Color – Page’ (so I’m guessing its the place you’re talking about), but as I described in my original post this only gives me options to effect the page when I’m in ‘bordered mode’.

My design uses the Full Width page layout and these controls won’t effect it.

How can I get around this? I’ve looked in the CSS and cannot see an obvious setting I can change.

Thanks,
Luke

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Some additional information…

I’ve translated a couple of the blog posts, but even then none of the them are recognised once the site switches to Chinese mode – including the translated posts.

I notice that the categories get lost in the translation, so will need to be translated if I go down the route of translating all the posts. Perhaps this has something to do with the problem?

As I say, I’m hoping I can just display the un-translated English posts in all language modes without having to create translations.

Help!

Thanks,
Luke