Menu behavior on a bilingual site

Hi,

The site I am working on is at www.lmslawyers.com.au/joomla . I am attempting to create it in two languages - Chinese and English - and have also created all articles and menus in language "All". I have followed the steps in these two articles:

www.templatemonster.com/help/joomla-3-x-...guage-site.html#gref
www.slideshare.net/erictiggeler/creating...-guide-eric-tiggeler

So far so good. A remaining issue is with the main (top) menu. I have not created the website using different templates for the different languages, by the way, so I hope this is OK.

Issue 1: The sub menus are not showing. I have set them up in template menu settings exactly the way the demo topmenu was set up. I have read topic #46384 - should I copy the code provided there and use it for Hot Flat?

Issue 2: Except when on the Home page, clicking any menu item returns you to the "All" menu. How do I make it so that when in Chinese, clicking the Chinese "Contact" page for example takes you to a screen where the Chinese menu still shows? Topic #46395 seems relevant but I do not see how to have three modules all simultaneously in the topmenu position in Layout Builder. I have attached an image of my Layout Builder showing the topmenu row.

By the way, I am using two Hot Flat templates, one for the Home page (has a big logo) and one for all other pages (with a smaller version of the logo).

Many thanks,
Julia.

Hello,

Please re-download from our site and re-install it (or just upload new template files by FTP to keep your data). We have fixed this issue 2-3 weeks ago. I think it will fix both issues.

Thanks,
Milos

Hi Milos,

Thanks, I will try that.

I have made several changes to template_css.css. Do I need to replace this file also? If so, and for future reference, should I be putting all my changes in a custom.css file in the same folder instead of directly changing template_css.css? In other words, how do I make changes as overrides rather than directly changing the template files?

Thanks,
Julia.

Hello,

If you modified template_css.css file, then don't replace it with new file. This file has not been updated and it's not important for this issue anyway.

Regards,
Milos

Hi Milos,

Thanks - I have left my template_css.css in place as well as template_css.php, and used the rest of the updated template files.

Updating the template files fixed one issue: the submenu items now show as dropdowns.

Still remaining is the issue that when any menu or submenu item other than Home is clicked, the user is taken to a page where the main content is of the correct language, but the top menu reverts to the default top menu (language = 'All').

What can I do to ensure the language-appropriate menu is what appears? Is this something I have done?

Thanks,
Julia.

Just one other point to mention - when the website does its unfortunate change to the 'all' language top menu, the language switcher disappears.

I have unpublished the module used by this 'all' language top menu, so really can't comprehend why appears at all.