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Hi there,
A website I am currently working on needs to be multi-lingual, which obviously can be solved very nicely using the I18N plugin, however for this project a news page is also needed.
My first thought was 'news manager', since I've used this plugin before and it works very nicely. However I am at a loss to think of a way to screw this into a multi-language site, since it doesn't support multiple languages to my knowledge.
Without any code changes using the I18N plugin and the news manager plugin would result in a news page that is in just one language for the entire site, no matter which language is selected. Correct?
UPDATE: did some testing, but that doesn't seem to work either, since news manager needs to be pointed to a specific page to be displayed on, whereas the I18N plugin will create a page with a different name (the _ + language code) for the additional language, so the news will not display on the different language version of that page (or I made a mistake, that's possible too of course).
However, it is much preferred to have a news page for each language used (let's say one in English and one in Dutch).
As this plugin doesn't support that the only way I can think of is having multiple instances of the news manager installed, each for a different language.
Reading through this thread I get the impression that this indeed is a possibility (though I am not totally sure yet how), however an important point would be how to make sure the various languages get served the correct news page. Perphaps with some sort of category solution.
@vixrealitum, reading your post it would seem you did something similar to what is described above. Though I am not sure what you did exactly, can you elaborate what you did?
All in all I think if we can think of a sort of solution of doing multilangual news it would come in handy for quite a few people.
A website I am currently working on needs to be multi-lingual, which obviously can be solved very nicely using the I18N plugin, however for this project a news page is also needed.
My first thought was 'news manager', since I've used this plugin before and it works very nicely. However I am at a loss to think of a way to screw this into a multi-language site, since it doesn't support multiple languages to my knowledge.
Without any code changes using the I18N plugin and the news manager plugin would result in a news page that is in just one language for the entire site, no matter which language is selected. Correct?
UPDATE: did some testing, but that doesn't seem to work either, since news manager needs to be pointed to a specific page to be displayed on, whereas the I18N plugin will create a page with a different name (the _ + language code) for the additional language, so the news will not display on the different language version of that page (or I made a mistake, that's possible too of course).
However, it is much preferred to have a news page for each language used (let's say one in English and one in Dutch).
As this plugin doesn't support that the only way I can think of is having multiple instances of the news manager installed, each for a different language.
Reading through this thread I get the impression that this indeed is a possibility (though I am not totally sure yet how), however an important point would be how to make sure the various languages get served the correct news page. Perphaps with some sort of category solution.
@vixrealitum, reading your post it would seem you did something similar to what is described above. Though I am not sure what you did exactly, can you elaborate what you did?
All in all I think if we can think of a sort of solution of doing multilangual news it would come in handy for quite a few people.
