Multilingual websites based on GavickPro templates

Gavick Team

I'd like to ask you pay more attention to one serious topic - Multilingual websites based on your Joomla templates. You have very useful instruction how to create a multilingual site in Joomla 2.5 http://www.gavick.com/documentation/gen ... oomla-1-7/ , but you wrote nothing how to change your built menu system and use it for every language. This is very importent question and it will be great, if you provide detailed instruction how to creat Main Menu for every language with the same style and possition like it's in Demo of templates for Joomla 2.5 and 3.2.

Waiting for your feedback.

Hi

The link to documentation You have posted got cut, so I'm not sure if You are talking about this instruction: https://www.gavick.com/documentation/ge ... oomla-1-7/

It's an article from joomla.org website about making a multilanguage menu, so it's a common method, but I agree it's confusing and hard to manage if You have a lot of links or languages.

I advice to use Falang component instead. With this solution You only have one menu and only translate the names. Much cleaner and faster I use this solution always.

Dlavro you are right!

i am striving also to setup Gavick templates in two of my project with multilingual setup without using Falang ... in certain cases e.g. when there are multiple k2 extra fields and complicated k2 content templates, falang is not a clear or easy solution for content authors ...

i think Gavick team should pay more attention regarding their multilingual compatibility with oob joomla setup ...

there is also an option stated in certain posts in the forum about cloning template and assigning to different languages but there is no any clear documentation about it or any support from Gavick team ...

Hi

"No support from Gavick team" ? I'm here to help You in this matter

As mentioned above we currently have 3 methods of multilanguage:

1. Falang
Personaly my first class choice. You need to create a content once and than just need to translate (extra fields can be supported as well), but sure a case when diferent authors are responsible for different language versions can be problematic, but You can always select a link to a different article while translating. Honestly I never found problem I could not figure out somehow with this component.

2. Main menu based on all languages.
With this You work as with a normal joomla, but part of menu options is available for one language, are some for otheres. Switching between languages make one oprion of language visible at the time. Also a good solution, but problem is with home page which has to be different for each language. A workaround is to create a separate menu with a homepage element for one of this languages.

3. Template styles
A little problematic, but sure it's doable as well. To use it You need to create a separate menu for each language. That create a copy of a stule for each language and attache one menu per style. Problem is again a homepage which joomla doesn't always know which one to display, but it doesn;t happen often. Also a drawback is that this solution deals with a multiple styles, so sometimes change needs to be done for each style saparetaly in order to takes effect.

If You select one of this methods I'll tell more details or a step by step instruction, but I think this 2 sentences about each method should be enought to figure out the idea.