MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

liniocht · 2010-10-21 07:01:27

macTigers wrote:

Here is an issue I have with mlp-0.9.13-gp on Textpattern 4.2.0 (r3275).
The section name fields appear but i can not change the section titles translation in the back end. I’ve tried it on 4 different installations. One is even a plain textpattern installation without any further plugin. Yet I did use a table prefix since I have various installations in one database. Could this be the cause of the problem? Or do you have any other idea? BTW I CAN change category names and image titles etc. Thanks for your effort.
PHP version: 4.4.9
MySQL: 5.0.91

PHP upgrade solves this.

els · 2010-10-21 17:30:09

liniocht wrote:

PHP upgrade solves this.

Hmm… do we know which minimum version we need? It would be good if we could mention the system requirements on txpforge.org.

liniocht · 2010-10-21 22:19:34

Els wrote:

liniocht wrote:

PHP upgrade solves this.

Hmm… do we know which minimum version we need? It would be good if we could mention the system requirements on txpforge.org.

I don’t. I had the same problem with PHP 5.2.0-8+etch15. With PHP 5.3.2-1 they are gone.
Here you summed it up.

els · 2010-10-21 23:02:18

liniocht wrote:

Here you summed it up.

Oh thanks ;) Together with John Stephens’ comment on Bug #29 I think we can narrow it down to this.

element · 2010-10-25 11:48:13

Why aren’t any of my webpages getting indexed by search engines with mlp? The only page that gets indexed by search engines is the homepage. All other pages aren’t crawled.

liniocht · 2010-10-25 12:46:16

element wrote:

Why aren’t any of my webpages getting indexed by search engines with mlp? The only page that gets indexed by search engines is the homepage. All other pages aren’t crawled.

Submitting a sitemap can significantly improve your site indexing, but it’s rather tricky with MLP. I have a link with how-to somewhere, but it’s in Russian. If I get a minute I’ll try to find it later.

net-carver · 2010-10-25 13:00:02

You could try jmd_sitemap_mlp. I’ve not worked on it for a long time so no guarantees. YMMV.

element · 2010-10-25 15:18:33

liniocht wrote:

element wrote:

Submitting a sitemap can significantly improve your site indexing, but it’s rather tricky with MLP. I have a link with how-to somewhere, but it’s in Russian. If I get a minute I’ll try to find it later.

I’m using rah_sitemap but no luck. Google Webmaster Tools let’s me know that 0 pages are indexed that are in the sitemap (I’ve added custom url’s). I’m wonder why domain.com get’s indexed but not domain.com/en/ and the pages below.

els · 2010-10-25 16:30:49

element wrote:

I’m wonder why domain.com get’s indexed but not domain.com/en/ and the pages below.

Did you check if those pages exist in the sitemap? I haven’t been able to get rah_sitemap to work properly with MLP, not even with custom URLs. jmd_sitemap_mlp though is doing its job perfectly.

liniocht · 2010-10-25 18:08:28

I found this how-to on creating sitemaps with txp without any plugins. It worked out for me but as I said above it’s in Russian. Here is google translation, it seems readable. Try it

macTigers · 2010-10-25 18:38:40

@liniocht

Thanks a lot for your short but sharp, clear and very helpful comment. It really helped and solved the issue. I love the Textpattern community :-)

(It’s been on the previous page)

Last edited by macTigers (2010-10-25 18:40:48)

liniocht · 2010-10-25 18:40:21

element wrote:
I’m using rah_sitemap but no luck. Google Webmaster Tools let’s me know that 0 pages are indexed that are in the sitemap (I’ve added custom url’s). I’m wonder why domain.com get’s indexed but not domain.com/en/ and the pages below.

Do the URLs in your sitemap have the language markers? Do they contain /en for English and corresponding codes for other languages? If not, your sitemap won’t do you any good.
If you are done with the sitemap, take your time until google indexes it. I started with 2 indexed urls out of 21 submitted. It took almost two weeks to index most of them, now I have 19 of 21. The speed of indexing depends on a lot of factors – the volume of your texts, links to your site, your update frequency – the more frequent the better, and a lot of others. Btw you can add your language-specific urls as sites in google tools and geo-target them.
I have mydomain.com and mydomain.com/ru geo-targetted to different countries.

Last edited by liniocht (2010-10-25 18:44:27)

element · 2010-10-27 08:41:09

Thanks for the replies and advice all. Changed to jmd_sitemap_mlp. Will see how it goes. 0 indexed for now, so I’ll play the waiting game and hope it will change.

lythande · 2010-11-05 11:22:48

Ive searching, but nothings found:
Ive a website for german and english. The problem is the section-url-name. If i making the normal mlp-installation, then the english-sites have german-words in the url, thats not very intuitive.

I figured out, thats possible to make one english section (now there two sections: german: arbeiten, english: works) and the article for english sites going to english sections.
In the backend, Content – MLP – Articles now there the table with “article” is in red (not in green) with the warning: “section mismatch”.

For the mainnavigation I’ve figured out with l10n_if_lang, if german, then german-section, if english, english-section, thats works good.

Would be that making some unknowns problems?

Edit: I use Textpattern 4.2.0

Edit: Problems:
ouch, yes. Ive a problem with l10n_lang_list.
if the english section active, then I can’t switch to the german section “arbeiten”, it’s switch to the (wrong) german section “works”.

Last edited by lythande (2010-11-05 12:08:05)

els · 2010-11-05 12:37:22

lythande wrote:

“section mismatch”.
…
Would be that making some unknowns problems?

I think you can safely ignore this warning; I’ve been using cross-section renditions on a site and apart from the warning I haven’t seen any problems with it.

ouch, yes. Ive a problem with l10n_lang_list.
if the english section active, then I can’t switch to the german section “arbeiten”, it’s switch to the (wrong) german section “works”.

Do you mean when on a section page? If you don’t have too many sections, you might consider hardcoded links to the other languages’ section pages.
If there is a problem on individual article pages as well, then maybe this post can help you.

Textpattern CMS

Textpattern CMS support forum

#1576 2010-10-21 07:01:27

Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

#1577 2010-10-21 17:30:09

Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

#1578 2010-10-21 22:19:34

Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

#1579 2010-10-21 23:02:18

Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

#1580 2010-10-25 11:48:13

Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

#1581 2010-10-25 12:46:16

Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

#1582 2010-10-25 13:00:02

Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

#1583 2010-10-25 15:18:33

Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

#1584 2010-10-25 16:30:49

Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

#1585 2010-10-25 18:08:28

Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

#1586 2010-10-25 18:38:40

Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

#1587 2010-10-25 18:40:21

Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

#1588 2010-10-27 08:41:09

Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

#1589 2010-11-05 11:22:48

Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

#1590 2010-11-05 12:37:22

Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack

Board footer