I have developed pages in that manner and if you are using WordPress functions and follow WP Codex it is same situation as if you developed custom page template. Just follow I18n for WordPress Developers and you will be fine.
you can add the lang parameter to your loop arguments like so $loop = new WP_Query( array ( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘lang’ => pll_current_language(‘slug’), //returns ‘en’ for example ‘posts_per_page’ => 10, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ) ); However this is not the better practice because by doing that way we override the main query which is … Read more
You need to use the function pll_the_languages() to get the language switcher. It has a bunch of arguments which you can use to customise the language switcher: $args is an optional array parameter. Options are: ‘dropdown’ => displays a list if set to 0, a dropdown list if set to 1 (default: 0) ‘show_names’ => … Read more
According to Polylangs Function Reference, pll_the_languages Displays a language switcher. And most probably it uses some additional CSS/JS to work. If you want to get the list of languages and display them with your custom code, then you can use this function instead: pll_languages_list($args); and it will return the list of languages. $args is an … Read more
Yes it is possible. For a more comprehensive answer, see: https://polylang.pro/doc/define-your-home-page-as-a-static-page/
The main language of a post should be saved in a post meta field. There is no way to detect that automatically. Even Google’s heuristics fail regularly with that. So add a custom field lang and check with … $language = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), ‘lang’, TRUE ); … what language the post was written in. Update … Read more
Apparently Polylang has an undocumented pll_save_post API method. See here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/programmatically-set-post-language-and-translations
There is actually a plugin that offers this exact functionality: Polylang User Manager: Polylang User Manager will work with Polylang WordPress multilingual Plugin, it will allow you to restrict access for editors/shop_manager or other user role based on languages they’re not assigned as Translators or editor.
My suggestions: Check language of the wordpress settings, it must be Dutch. Disable the plugin just upload .mo files in /languages/. You must check your theme! Maybe overriding default language is the problem! or …
OK – I got it, the old posts already on the database do NOT have an english translation and that’s the problem with my loop. When I add a new post, I have the option to provide a translation which then appears in the english page. looking through the docs I found that I can … Read more