Selective Multilingual Pages in ProcessWire

[kuba]

 

Hi everyone,

I run an English website, and I’m adding translations with ProcessWire. Right now, enabling a new language creates URLs for every page (and leads to 404 errors if the translation URL isn’t "Active").

Here’s what I’d like instead:

• Translate in stages: Start with just a few pages (e.g. Page 1, Page 2, Page 3).
• Language-specific nav: On translated pages, show links only to other active translations.
• Fallback to English: If a visitor requests an untranslated page (like /de/contact or /de/blog), display the default URL (like /contact, /blog).

My site has dozens of pages, so a full translation will take months. I’d rather roll out a small batch each day to test and refine the process.

Does anyone know if ProcessWire can be configured this way? Any tips or examples would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

[ngrmm]

@kuba go to the Languages Support - Page Names module and scroll down to the section Behavior when page not available in requested language (but is available in default language)

[kuba]

6 minutes ago, ngrmm said:

@kuba go to the Languages Support - Page Names module and scroll down to the section Behavior when page not available in requested language (but is available in default language)

Thank you for the hint, I guess this option "Perform a 302 (temporary) redirect to the page in default language" may work.

[kuba]

Is there a gentler way to disable one language across all pages; the "Active" URL?

foreach ($page as $p) {
    $p->of(false);
    $p->setAndSave('status2818', false);
}

[ngrmm]

 

[kuba]

13 hours ago, ngrmm said:

 

Thank you again for the reply. I did find this thread, but the solution doesn't work, at least with PW 3.0.246.

foreach ($languages->findNonDefault() as $language) {
    $page->setLanguageStatus($language, true);
}

$language returns the right ID, e.g. 2818.

setLanguageStatus does not affect anything, regardless of whether it is set to true or false.

The issue with setAndSave is that it cannot handle applying changes to all pages, hanging the whole platform. 

The RockMigrations module uses also setAndSave.

public function activate(HookEvent $event)
  {
    $page = $event->arguments(0);
    $languages = $this->wire->languages->findNonDefault();
    foreach ($languages as $lang) $page->setAndSave("status$lang", 1);
  }

[kuba]

If you're having trouble managing the "Active URL" status through the CMS interface, I found that a direct database update may be the solution.

Here’s a working SQL command to set status2818 = 0 for all selected language/pages(both published and unpublished):

UPDATE pages
SET status2818 = 0
WHERE published IS NULL 
   OR published IS NOT NULL;

[kuba]

Here is an API solution to disable page language, shared by Rayan, for anyone interested.

 

$wire->addHookBefore('InputfieldPageName::render', function(HookEvent $e) {
  $inputfield = $e->object;
  foreach($e->wire()->languages as $language) {
    $name = "status$language";
    if($inputfield->checkboxName != $name) continue;
    if($inputfield->checkboxChecked) {
      // Checkbox for $language->name is checked
    } else {
      // Checkbox for $language->name is not checked
    }
    // to change set $inputfield->checkboxChecked = true or false
  }
}, [ 'priority' => 200 ]);