Hi,
My blog is in two languages, but I can’t get my mobile website to use the secondary language menu.
I created two mobile menus, one for English and one for Dutch, and assigned them to the right locations. Yet in Theme Panel > Mobile Settings, I can enter only one option for main menu. This setting seems the overwrite the other settings.
How do I make my mobile theme use the NL menu for the NL website and the EN menu for the EN website?
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Website: wheretokim.com/nl
Kind regards,
Kimberly
Hi,
Please check in the plugin settings that you are using for translate the website, maybe this have some option to translate the menu, in this way you’ll no longer need to have two different menus for mobile.
Thank you!
The menu would be translated, but it will still have the hyperlinks to the English language site… I need them to also send the user to the Dutch pages.
So how do I use the NL mobile menu with NL text and NL hyperlinks in the mobile theme? If the desktop theme can work with two menu versions, then why can’t the mobile theme?
Hi,
Usually we recommend to our clients to use WPML translate plugin, this can translate the menus/pages/posts/cloud templates.
If you are using other plugin for translate is very possible to interpret wrong the theme menus, also the mobile theme plugin have a different implementation then the theme.
Thank you!
Hi Calin,
Thanks for your replies. I use Polylang instead of WPML, but as everything else works fine I didn’t expect any problems. For example, the logo in the header does point to the NL home from all Dutch posts and pages and switching between languages works as well… it’s just the menu.
Do you have an example site or do you know a site that uses Newspaper and WPML that has a working multilingual mobile menu? I’d like to be sure the problem lies with the plugin and not the theme before I buy something else (with yearly fees).
Or else is there a way to create a workaround to point the mobile theme to two different menus? Again, the desktop versions can find both language versions of the menu without problems.
Also, what’s interesting: if I turn off the mobile theme for my NL Home, then it does use the NL Menu for that page (https://wheretokim.com/nl). But on any other NL page it uses the EN Menu.
I really like the mobile theme as I think it is more user-friendly, but right now I’m considering not using it.
Kind regards,
Hi Wheretokim,
Only “AMP” is selected from the Mobile Theme Panel. Do the page update. Then look at the Menus again.try it like this ..
Hi teknobilimadami,
I have ‘Mobile’ selected in the Mobile Theme Panel. I can’t even select AMP, because I don’t have it installed. You can see it in the second screenshot I linked in my first post.
Kind regards,
Hi,
You can check one of our website that is using WPML -> https://iflow.ro/en# also please make sure that you set the menu in polylang as in this documentation -> https://polylang.pro/doc/create-menus/
Thank you!
Hi Calin,
Thanks for your replies. I did set the menu in polylang as described in the documentation.
For now I have deactivated the mobile theme plugin and semi-optimized the desktop version for mobile. I will look into this again someday. My options seem to be to wait for compatibility with Polylang, switch to WPML or see if I can fix it in either the plugin or theme code.
Thanks for your help. Let’s close this topic.
@Wheretokim have you found a solution by any chance?
I am facing the same issue, the AMP version is showing the menu from the default language.
No, unfortunately.
I turned off the mobile theme and am now using the desktop theme for mobile.
