Important information : date of posts and versions

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This multilingual site is born around 2 years ago (with theme TwentyEleven) to demonstrate as Twentyten-xili, how to use example child twentytwelve-xili. Since lot of improvements in WP Core and versions of xili-language plugin…

Example child theme twentytwelve-xili is downloadable now in version 2.0 and uses recent technic (classes and more…). He is also compatible 3.5+. Technical infos are here on website showing twentythirteen-xili.

Here posts and how to are are left in place as learning. The posts about gallery (jetpack) and floom slideshow remain valid.

So remember to read the date of the article and the versions !! Visit also wiki

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Gallery with new features of xili-language v. 2.7

In this gallery the images are titled and described in english (with the same shared files in other languages)

For more infos about “backend” see wiki docs.

What’s new in xili-language next version 2.6 ?

What’s new in xili-language next version 2.6 ?

  1. Improvements to change language of a post,
  2. Enhancements of author interface, list, editing,
  3. Flexible ways to choose place of css containing style files of translations dashboard,
  4. and more…

Style

Webmaster is free to choose place where to save the style file. He is also free to choose flags according language and country of visitors. For example, some flags are availables.

Dashboard xili-language 2.6

Dashboard xili-language 2.6

xili-language 2.4.1 shipped: what’s new

On January 28th, 2012, xili-language version 2.4.1 is shipped:

* Settings pages are now organized in 4 tabs.

4 tabs to organize settings

* improvements of readme started as visible here.
* automatic rtl.css adding if present in theme like twentyten or twentyeleven – So supports better arabic, persian, hebraic and other *right to left* languages.
* new way and options to manage dates translation using class wp_locale – before activation: read carefully this keynote !

* a new version of twentyeleven-xili is available here.

A new release for theme twentyeleven-xili : one menu per language option

For complex and rich multilingual website, it can be good to have a navigation menu per language and organize a navigation with pages and special menu items adapted to each language.

Theme Locations

Theme Locations

Before today, the only way was to modify the code of theme (header) and add registration for this new menus (functions.php). (as in middle of this topic of forum)
Prerequisite : xili-language must be updated to version 2.3
Here, with the example of 2011 xili child theme (twentyeleven-xili 0.9.7), it is more easy with options in theme (xili Options).

Theme multilingual Options

Theme multilingual Options

In the menu locations (see snapshot on top and below) if a menu content is not attached to a menu location, the default menu for root language (currently en_us) is displayed.

Theme menu contents

Theme menu contents

This new version of theme is also an example for theme’s developers – how it works ?

Two filters (and functions) were added in functions.php of the child theme :

The first registers the added navigation menus according the available list of languages:

/**
 * filter to create one menu per language for dashboard
 * detect the default one created by theme ($menu_locations[0])
 * @since 0.9.7
 */
 
add_action ( 'init', 'xili_create_menu_locations',100 );
 
function xili_create_menu_locations () {
	$xili_theme_options = xili_twentyeleven_get_theme_options() ; 
	if ( $xili_theme_options['nav_menus'] == 'nav_menus' ) {  // ok for automatic insertion of one menu per lang...
		$menu_locations =  array_keys( get_nav_menu_locations()); 
		if ( class_exists('xili_language') ) {
			global $xili_language ;
			$default = 'en_us'; // currently the default language of theme in core WP
			$language_xili_settings = get_option('xili_language_settings');
			$language_slugs_list =  array_keys ( $language_xili_settings['langs_ids_array'] ) ;
			foreach ( $language_slugs_list as $slug ) {
				$one_menu_location = $menu_locations[0].'_'.$slug ;
				if ( $slug != $default && !isset($menu_locations[$one_menu_location]) ) {
					register_nav_menu ( $one_menu_location,  sprintf( __('Menu for %s','twentyeleven'), $slug ) );
				}
			}
		} 
	}
}

The second changes during the webpage and menu creation the location, so display the good menu content:

/**
 * filter to avoid modifying theme's header and changes 'virtually' location for each language
 * @since 0.9.7
 */
 
add_filter ( 'wp_nav_menu_args', 'xili_wp_nav_menu_args' ); // called at line #145 in nav-menu-template.php
 
function xili_wp_nav_menu_args ( $args ) {
	if ( class_exists('xili_language') ) {
		global $xili_language ;
		$default = 'en_us'; // currently the default language of theme as in core WP
		$slug = the_curlang();
		if ( $default != $slug ) {
			$theme_location = $args['theme_location'];
			if ( has_nav_menu ( $theme_location.'_'.$slug ) ) { // only if a menu is set by webmaster in menus dashboard
				$args['theme_location'] = $theme_location .'_'.$slug ;
			}	
		}
	}	
	return $args;
}

To conclude

By providing the new version of child :

  1. users of twentyeleven can easily create a navigation menu for each language without modifying code. twentyten-xili version 2.0 also contains this feature.
  2. webmasters and theme’s developers can find code examples how to improve theme’s multilingual features.

Enjoy !

for questions, use comment below or dev.xiligroup forum

How to insert with style a bbPress 2.0 in twentyeleven : example to explore child theme, style and sub-folder

[this post is obsolete because for earlier bbPress 2.0.x]

In this article (not yet translated), how to personalize a child theme to show bbPress in twentyeleven theme with minimum modification but good folder organization.

Next post (soon !) : a child theme with both multilingual features and bbPress with twentyeleven-xili-bbp.

Hello world!

Welcome to 2011 (Twenty Eleven) theme demo site. This post, in english, is the first article. This website is only to demonstrate twentyeleven multilingual child theme. It is under continous completion since shipping of official WP 3.2 on July 4th 2011.

Multilingual features are powered by xili-language plugins trilogy.

This theme twentyeleven-xili is available for tests.

A topic is open on forum.

dev.xiligroup team