Wonderful people smarter than me,
- I created a multilingual site on Joomla 3.2.3 running PHP 5.5.12 and mySQL 5.6.17 using a Shape 5 template with vertex. Virtuemart 3.0.0 is also installed on the site. The two languages are English and simplified Chinese.
- I installed the required languages. (including Virtuemarts translation packs)
- I set up the content languages . The default site language is English.
- I created article categories "en" and "Zh" as well as appropriate subcategories for the articles.
- I left the default home page to the default menu, which I renamed Main Menu All. In total there are 5 menus for each language. In total 15 menus, 5 for marked ALL, 5 duplicates for ENglish, and 5 for the Chinese
- I created Main Menu En, Zh, and the menu module for each.
- I assigned a language-specific default home page for each language.
- I set all modules, menus, articles and categories to be shown only in their respective language.
- I have installed and published the language switcher along with language filter.
After finishing this it will only display the two language flags. Nothing else, nor are the flags clickable.
I've reviewed the multilingual demo site a few times and searched this forum as well scoured the internet for tutorials and have double checked my process and it seems to be have been followed correctly but I cant get anything to display. I've been unable to find someone else experiencing the same problem, lucky me.
Firebug doesn't give me much other than to let me know a few modules loaded but fail to display anything. I get an error message on the console saying that the background image its searching for is not found. It's looking in ´rui/images/backgroundimage.jpg´ but should be looking in ´rui/benben/images/backgroundimages´. So maybe its a url problem?
But wait! Theres more!
Ive played with the urls to see if I manually type them perhaps something its just the main age that wont display, nope. Nothing but the two language flags and I cant get to another sub page.
I've tried switching template to a template bundled with Joomla and a few modules display but most is missing and the language options are non existent.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time and kindness.
UPDATE: Looking at my other multilingual site I realized that perhaps creating menus for each language, other than the Main Menu, is perhaps not necessary as thats how my other multilingual site is set up. It works just fine. So went ahead and deleted the language specif menus other than the Main menus, simply assigning one menu item for each language on the non-main menus.
Example being: - Main menu all 1. dresses 2. bananas 3 boots - Main menu Chinese 1. dresses 2. bananas 3 boots - Main menu English 1. dresses 2. bananas 3 boots - Bottom Menu 1. FAQs (En) 2. FAQS (ZH) 3. Chunky Monkey (EN) 4. Chunkey Monkey (Zh)
and so on. Sadly, this did not work.
Set up the english only backup of the site and starting all over again. Went ahead and updated to joomla 3.4. Fingers crossed it works this time.
