Multilang support in Cornerstone

[Persi]

Hello,

I am currently managing a multilingual website using the Cornerstone editor with the Pro theme.

The site was already set up with separate headers and footers for English and German, which were set up in Cornerstone > Footers and Cornerstone > Headers, and these are working perfectly.

The problem is, that I am experiencing difficulties when adding additional headers and footers for Greek and Spanish versions of the website. I don’t know how to set up the conditions which would affect the visibility of the footers and headers, as the Greek and Spanish headers and footers do not appear as intended. I have tried setting up conditions in Cornerstone but none of them seem to work.

Could you please guide me on how to properly configure language conditions to ensure that the Greek and Spanish versions of the site display their respective headers and footers? Any advice on setting up these conditions would be greatly appreciated.

For the multilingual functionality, I am using Polylang, however, the English and German footer/header switching was working also before without Polylang, I have installed this plugin only because of making the setting up of additional languages and switching the langs easier.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Best regards

[christian]

Hey @Persi.

We only support WPML for multilingual translation. You can learn more here https://theme.co/docs/wpml

[Persi]

Hello,

thank you for your reply. As I wrote, aside from polylang or any other multilang plugin it was also working before, so I assume there must be some sort of conditions either in Cornerstone or the Pro theme files, which affect the visibility of headers/footers.

Upon receiving the site under support, it had no multilingual plugin installed and the switching from EN/DE was done only using parent pages, meaning the english site was running under the url https://medstudy-europe.com and the german under https://medstudy-europe.com/de.

The German homepage was the parent page of all of the German subpages and therefore, when i clicked the button DE, it just navigated me to page /de and the header and footer have changed accordingly. I suspect that the display conditions are set up based on the URL slug, but I didn’t find any settings or lines of code, neither in the builder nor in the theme php files that would confirm my theory.

If I try to replicate the same behaviour for the Greek and Spanish subpages, it is not working, no matter what I try. I tried to set up conditions in the Cornerstone builder, but it is not affecting the visibility of the header/footer, both Greek and Spanish pages are displaying English header and footer.

[christian]

Hey @Persi,

I understand that it was working previously. But, the manner of translation isn’t actually coming from Pro. That means you have a multilingual setup outside of Pro and what’s happening now is unlikely caused by Pro. But to be sure, switch to the default theme if your translation works. If you’ve created the page using Cornerstone, create a test page using the default WordPress editor and translate the test page.

Just note that if it’s proven that Pro is the cause of the issue, this does not mean that we’ll fix the issue. That is because the multilingual plugin that we support is WPML. But, we’ll list the issue internally maybe there’s an easy fix.

Thank you for understanding.