Hey Simon,

Yes, that was possible to do this exactly as you described above.

Than you Arlex!

It's great to know that this is possible, but I'd still like to know how to do this. Do you, or any other person know, is there any instructions in the web or previous thread considering the subject?

Best regards
Simo

Hi again!

Thank you Arlex for your patience and detailed information. I have just realized that different language sections on my company's webpage are created so that using language switcher is impossible (there are just different menu items for different languages without language identification). So I decided that I use English version of Easyblog on every language section. But now I encountered another problem:

When I create two menu items for Easyblog (one on the Finnish section and one on the Englis section) everything looks fine at first. But when I try to move inside Easyblog (e.g. click "Bloggers" or "Tags" section) on English section (Screenshot 1) the top menu changes to Finnish and I'm suddenly on Finnish section (Screenshot 2).

Do you have any idea why is this? I'd like that the language section wouldn't change like this. I would really appreciate your answer.

Best regards
Simo

hey Simo,

You're welcome.

I'm feel curious how do you switch your site language from English to Finnish? Because I've checked in your site, you do not have provide any language switch function on your site since you already mentioned your site impossible to use Joomla language switcher module.

By the way, I've tried to reproduce this issue as you mentioned at above, but it seems work fine for me.

Perhaps you can take a look of my video here and see is it I missing something here? -> http://screencast.com/t/aGLXATc6t

Hey Arlex,

The language switching happens from drop down menu in the upper right corner of the page (menu title "Languages" ---> "Suomeksi"). However this always leads to the front page of the site which isn't very clever. The site was created before I started my work here and I haven't paid attention to this until now.

The reason why you can't reproduce the problem is that I unpublished the blog's menu item from the Finnish section for now. I didn't want to leave any buggy features on the site for the night. If there is only one menu item of the blog published at the time the problem doesn't occur. I can publish it again for today and leave it for you to wonder.

Best regards
Simo

hey Simo,

To be honestly, I think that is not a best solution for display a drop down menu for switch your site language, because I just tested it won't respect back to your current language after you switched language.

By the way, it should respect your english Easyblog menu item when you click on 'blogger', 'tag' page after I set your blog menu item to "English" language, you can refer on my attached screenshot.

Can you give it a try and see how it goes?

Hi again,

Thank you for considering my question.

Now the blog on English section works just fine but the menu item on Finnish section isn't visible at all. It becomes visible when I change the blog menu item on Finnish section from Finnish (fi-FI) to All or English (UK). But then the original problem repeats itself...

Again it all come down to the fact that different languages are poorly created and that's why Joomla thinks that all the language sections are English.

Is there any other solution to this problem than creating whole new way to change between languages?

Best regards
Simo

Hey Simo,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply,

Yes, because Joomla only respect which menu item you point to the appropriate language.

Perhaps you can try this Gtranslate extension ( http://extensions.joomla.org/extension/gtranslate )?

This extension is similar google translate, it will translate your language immediately to another language.

For example, you only build 1 default English language menu item in your site, if the user do not understand English, so they can switch to their prefer language through this extension.

Hope this will help.

Hi Arlex,

Thank you for your suggestion. This would be a great aid for us if we'd like rapidly translate our webpages into some other languages. The thing is that we have seen a great effort to translate our webpage to multiple languages with aid of professional interpreters to get vivid and correct translations. If we'd use the translation app you suggested we'd probably get quite poor translations compared to what we have now. So I unfortunately I have to say thank you but no thank you fpr now.

Lets put the problem this way: I have two menu items - Blog1 and Blog2 and they both contain the Easyblog. How do I prevent from jumping from menu item Blog2 to menu item Blog1 when I navigate inside Easyblog (by clicking e.g. "Bloggers"). I created this situation to our demo site for you to test. Menu items Blog1 and Blog2 are found in the top right corner of this page: dev33.coderum.net

I would really appreciate if some kind of solution could be found.

Best regards
Simo

Hey Simo,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. It all depends on how you are linking your "Blog1" and "Blog2" menu item.

What I would suggest is for you to utilize the Joomla multi language feature that Arlex suggested in his post earlier. This is the only way that you can have different menu items based on different languages.

Anyway this is how Joomla advise users to utilize the built in multi language feature in Joomla

Hi again,

I apologize that it has been this long since my last post. I've been busy converting the language structure of our site to be Joomla friendly as you suggested. I've finally managed to do that and now Easyblog works like a charm! This process has also been a great and much needed upgrade for our entire site.

Thank you for all your help, quick answers and patience! I'll be in touch if I have any more problems.

Happy new year!

Best regards
Simo

Hey Simo,

Thanks for updating and I am glad that your issues are resolved now

By the way, please remember to assign your domain to your license to obtain for support in the future. You can do so by accessing your license area at http://stackideas.com/dashboard