I18N Special Pages

[mvlcek]

Been making a lot of progress with this, and the possibilities seem endless...!

here are a couple of things i got stuck on:

1.) when in the configure screen for special pages, when i click the 'view' button, the "HTML/PHP code for the header of the page" box looks empty until i click into it, and then it shows the contents of that.

That happens, if you have the Theme Highlighter plugin installed. I couldn't find a solution so far.

2.) I can't seem to get rid of the language suffix on the links from the search results, they all have this on the end: /?lang=en
but i have i18nsearch set to not display language... and i have the search result tag set as showLanguage:0
my search results template is using this for the link to the special page:

Code:

<?php get_special_field('link','',false); ?>">

The language is always added to the link, if you have the I18N plugin installed (to make sure the linked page's language is the same as that of the search result). But if you have only one language you can use the field simplelink instead of link.

3.) Would it be possible to be able to add tags to the page header on the search results, in addition to the special page view? This would be used for example if there was custom css needed to display the search results in a certain formatting that requires css, without having to add that to the template file (to make the special page type more portable between templates...)

This is not easily possible, as I don't know in the header, if search results are displayed - there could be a (% searchresults %) tag in the content, the content could call a component, there could be a list of search results in the template - and additionally I don't know which search results will be displayed, which would mean that all styles of all special pages would need to be included.
So you have to add the styles to the global CSS file or define them inline.

4.) seems like the ability to sort by a custom field is working and this is really great; is there any syntax to order items in reverse of a custom field, for example if i have a field containing years, and want to display the most recent year at the top of the list....

Sorting by a custom field? What are you talking about?
The only custom field to sort by is the creation date!?