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Questions & AnswersCategory: QuestionsTranslation in footer only working correctly on some pages??
Thomas asked 8 years ago
This is utterly baffling to me, since the footer is a single entity that populates across all pages of the website. Yet right now, the footer translations are only working correctly on three of the six pages of the site.   www.werth-it.ch   The footer works 100% properly on: Home, Articles, and Contact pages. The footer skips translations for one single sentence text-block (English looks fine, but on the German page it skips the German translation and goes to the French, the French goes to the Italian, and the Italian goes to the English) on the Services, Team, and Jobs pages. It's the sentence right below the "Subscribe" header. The rest of the blocks all still work properly. I CANNOT for the life of me figure out why that one translations isn't working on only these three pages. It literally makes no sense. It should be broken on all pages, but it's not. It can't be a stray period in the footer, or it would be broken on all the pages. I am baffled.
1 Answers
Dave Hilditch Staff answered 8 years ago

Hi – if you hit CTRL+U on the pages which are not working it will open the page source – this shows you the text unmodified – i.e. before Multilingualizer hides text. Then hit CTRL+F and search for the 4 dots. There will be 1 at the beginning of the file which is for Multilingualizer and then the others in your actual text. You will find that you have a mismatch somewhere – fix the mismatch and these pages will be fixed.

Thomas replied 8 years ago

Thanks Dave – I’ll give it a try again – this is what I’ve been doing and I’m just not finding it.

My confusion arises from the fact that the footer code (including the Multilingualizer code) is only input once – it’s not individualized on every page. Thus my bafflement as to why it’s functioning on some pages and not others. If it was due to a mismatched 4-dot tag somewhere in the footer, I’d think the footer would be broken on all pages. If it’s due to a mismatched 4-dot tag on the page itself, I’d think the translation would break from wherever that spot is on the page all the way down, which it also isn’t doing.

Thomas replied 8 years ago

Home Page has 103 instances of the 4-dot tag and translation works
Contact page has 75 instances of the 4-dot tag, and translation works.
Articles page has 65 instances of the 4-dot tag, and translation works.

Services page has 124 instances of the 4-dot tag, and that one sentence is broken.
Team page has 81 instances of the 4-dot tag, and that one sentence is broken.
Jobs page has 87 instances of the 4-dot tag, and that one sentence is broken.

Thomas replied 8 years ago

Found the missing tag on the Services page, which had nothing to do with the footer, and which didn’t fix the problem. However, I did get it fixed, by taking all hard returns out of the translation code entirely. 🙂

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