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Trying to add multi-languages:

Watching utubes and reading, I'm plugging along. I created the site in Spanish and want to add English. It appears that I need to duplicate everything 2X one for Spanish, 1 for English and the original. At this point my English menu doesn't show, and I suspect that the Spanish menu isn't actually showing either.

I made a Menu En and created Home, Resume and Teaching. In linked modules, I originally said position Hornav, when that I wasn't working, I checked the Main Menu and see that in menu module position, it was set at position 1, which there isn't any and then I noticed that it was set to trashed, so I'm thinking that it isn't really linked to any module.

UPDATE: If I put the position as Header1 or Breadcrumbs, the English menu shows up, so I just need how to replace the main menu with the English menu (Menu EN) In one tutorial it said to unplubish the Main Menu module, I don't see a Main Menu module. If I unplublish all of the main menu items, then I do remove the menu, but My English/Spanish menu doesn't show.

UPDATE QUESTION: In one tutorial It appears that I need to duplicate my template, one for Spanish and one for English, or do I just need a Kinvara_EN, as the main menu is in Spanish?




In one of the tutorials, they said to make a English category and a Spanish Category, then put each language content under each, but I'm thinking that isn't really necessary??
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UPDATE: Next day some sleep, YES, you need to make a copy of your template with/for the language/s. I'm still "creating" the menu for the English version. Since I created the site originally in Spanish, I'm not sure that I need all of the "parts" to be in triplicate. (one main, one Spanish and one English. I'll keep you posted, I only have the English homepage working right now. The Spanish version seems to be working but I'm still learning.

UPDATE: I'm thinking that since I used the default template, which is En_GB and created it using Spanish, that I will need to copy the template to a SP version too.

Here is a pretty good tutorial, you can login to Admin and look at the back end: http://multilingual.demojoomla.com/

This one was also helpful: https://docs.joomla.org/Special:MyLanguage/J3.x:Setup_a_Multilingual_Site
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Well with my messing around, I managed to mess up my J51_Kinvara - Home template. It is Home page only the main purpose is to delete the "Home" menu item on the Home page. It's been working fine until, I copied it to the SP & EN version. I still have the custom css in the "box" on the Custom CSS tab, I also have Load Custom CSS file set to NO, but looking at the page source, I can see that it is indeed loading it. .

I have unassigned all of the extra templates SP & EN and the -Home template is assigned to the Home menu only, The Home menu item is set to Template style is set to J51_Kinvara - Home. Cleared Cache just to be sure, in Joomla & Firefox.

What did I do wrong?

UPDATE: I unpublished the Sp & En's Home page and that solved my problem. I'm not sure why that did it as the templates were unpublished too.
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I haven't done this yet, but I'm thinking that you also need to duplicate all of the extensions that you are using with the site. My "new" pages don't have content, so that is why you need to duplicate the extensions.

Am I right Ciarán?
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Hi Bill

It really depends on the module but yes quite oftena likely solution is to create create a module for each of your languages and assign each accordingly. This is especially true for language specific modules (eg. menus).

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