The discussion revolves around creating a multilingual forum with three languages (LTR) and a single signup process. Ana_d wants users to be able to switch between languages by selecting a country flag, similar to the WD community mobile version. After selecting a language, the front page and categories will be displayed in the chosen language, but topics will not be shown. Instead, users will be guided through the categories first.
Ana_d also wants to separate categories by language, allowing users to post in their native language without needing to add tags. The challenge is to create a unique front page for each language while maintaining the same layout.
Merefield suggested looking into the multilingual plugin, but Ana_d clarified that this is not what they are looking for. Anemonejar is seeking a solution to a similar problem, but no solution has been presented yet.
we are trying to launch a multilingual forum (3 languages LTR) and would like to know if this would be possible :
Users and databases are connected : One signup gives access to every section of the forum so if users want to participate in more than one language they don’t need to do multiple signups.
Language selection : by clicking on a image of a country flag like in the wd community mobile version https://community.wd.com/
After language selection : the front page and the categories are displayed in the selected language with a similar layout as the current categories page.
For example, at the french section “myforum.com/c/fr/” there would be a similar front page with categories and the same list of sub-categories in french as the English section "myforum.com/categories.
TLDR : We do not want to display topics after language is selected because we want to guide our users between different categories first.
Hope somebody can us help do this.
Edit: If there is a way of making the same interface of the “category” on the “sub-category”, we could make it work.
we don’t want all messages to be translated, we want to separate categories by language.
Like you enter in the french and everything that is posted there is written by french people, they don’t need to put tags. It’s within the “french” category.
But if the french visitor can speak english, he can go to the english section where every english speakers write in english.
The trick here is that we can’t have the same interface as the front page with all the categories for each language.
Only one login, but three different frontpage with the same layout.
