Menu items order

Hello,

I was facing the same problem.here is the solution I found. not sure it is the best one:

It does not use the inclusion of the page selection as described in the tutorial.

1- I create the pages that will be pointed by the menu.

2- I go in the menu definition page and I create a primary menu, inserting in it all the pages in the proper order ( inserting the pages of 1 language only is enough)

3- for each menu item, I change the nagigation title to a default one:

ex: french+ english : french title is « Bonjour », english one is « Hello ». I put hello as navigation title.This title only serve as a key in the dictionary

4-I go in xili dictionary and create a new term (hello with the above exemple)

5-i define a translation for each language (Hello for us_en and Bonjour for fr_fr) with the above exemple

6-in xili-dictionary I generate an MO file for EACH of the language

7-I insert the lanquage titles or flags in the menu bar as indicated in the doc

8-when I switch from one language to the other the menu titles are in the order define in the menu and correctly translated.

Of course it would be 100 times easier if xili-language was able to recognise on its own that the pages inserted in a navigation menu are linked to pages in other language and use directly the titles of the pages themselves for translation without having to resort to the dictionary. It may be possible but I don’t know how to do it.

regards

when pages in different languages are linked, you must verify that the links are set in each page – example : if page 2 is in english, and page 27 in japanese – the link in page 2 edit must be 27 for japanese and the link in page 27 edit must be 2 for english…

Give me one week to test multilevel menus… it is the summer week without screen to rest my eyes (and brain)…

the author

To illustrate a way used on one multilingual website with specific menus for each language some code below… if then else can be changed by switch and names of menus can use suffixes,

<?php

$curlang = the_curlang();

if ( "en_us" == $curlang ) {

wp_nav_menu( array( 'container_class' => 'menu-header', 'theme_location' => 'primary' ) );

} if ( "fr_fr" == $curlang )  {

wp_nav_menu( array( 'container_class' => 'menu-header', 'theme_location' => 'primaire' ) );

}

the menus named primary or primaire or primary-es_es must be preset in WP admin apparance UI

Enjoy !

hello

i’m new to xili-language and i would like to understand how to order elements in the menu (the alphabetical ordering doesnt fit to me).

can you explain me how to achieve this ?

i’m using Twentyten-xili theme which allows only 1 level of menu (primary) ; the method provided by Michel doesnt seem to work.

thanks

thanks Michel.

it’s about insertion of pages ; where is that edit list you’re talking about ? i’m not an expert so could you please talk me to the right place with the right code ?

thank a lot !