WB 2.8.2 - pages not showing in menu

[mwestrik]

Hi, after creating several websites in 2.8.1, without any problems, I'm now working on two websites in 2.8.2

Both sites do have the same problem now: not all pages created are actually shown in the website. I've checked the database, the pages section, and everything seems to be normal.

Example: http://www.bello-horizonte.es/index.php

The language menu on top does only include Nedrlands, but there are pages for English en Spanish as well - not showing.

In the left hand menu, the page "producten" actually does have three subpages. They are not listed. They are listed in the page manager however.
I did have a page "collecties" just above "producten", with two subpages, but those subpages were not shown. The ones in "producten" were. Then I deleted "collecties", in order to create a new page, which might show the subpages, but instead the subpages of "producten" dissapeared.

Very strange!

Anybody got an idea what happens, or what I do wrong?

[dbs]

hi, don't know, maybe Page-Languages enabled under Settings?
http://www.websitebaker2.org/en/help/user-guide/working-with-wb/settings.php

[mwestrik]

No, no problems there. It's not that all pages are not listed, just a few. And when I delete some and add some, others will disappear from the menu.

[mwestrik]

A small addition: it does occur with both show_menu AND show_menu2. The language menu is show_menu2, and the left hand menu is show_menu.

[Ruud]

check the language settings for all pages.

By just guessing your english startpage (english.php) is can see the resulting page is in language NL (/pages/english/bello-horizonte.php?lang=NL)
The language is used by selecting the pages to show by show_menu(2).
Make sure all pages in the language structure will have the correct language set too.

[mwestrik]

Hi Ruud,

thanks for the comment. I've changed it, but unfortunately it does not matter. The language menu now is show_menu2 because I hoped that would help. Both menus were show_menu.

The level0 menu with the three language pages nederlands.php, english.php and espano.php are just menu links, with the first page of the site included. The three pages had the correct language settings, the included ones not. Now they have, and still the same problem.

In the level1 and level2 menu on the left hand side does only contain dutch pages. Right now, the "collecties" page does not show its two subpages. However, when I remove the page "collecties", then the subpages of the next page, in this case "products", will disappear from the front end. They still are in the backend, in the database and so on. Also checked the database itself, and all pages are listed there, in the same way.

[Ruud]

First: forget about using showmenu for the language selector.
If you are in "English mode" it will not show menu pages in Dutch and vice versa.
I always do language selectors manual/hardcoded.

About the missing subpages..
Can you show the show_menu2 call you are using?

[mwestrik]

At this moment, it is not a show_menu2, but: <?php show_menu(0,1,4,false); ?> in order to exclude level 0 and show all subpages up until level 4. To be honest, I've never used the submenu2 before, and I've built over 15 WB websites already, these being the first ones in WB2.8.2 instead of 2.8.1...

[DarkViper]

Try following configuration please:

Code: (Menu-Structure)

EN  (menu=1, lang=en) menu_link => Item EN-1
- Item EN-1  (menu=1, lang=en)
- - subItem EN-1.1  (menu=1, lang=en)
- - - subItem EN-1.1.1   (menu=1, lang=en)
- - - subItem EN-1.1.2   (menu=1, lang=en)
- - subItem EN-1.2  (menu=1, lang=en)
- - - subItem EN-1.2.1   (menu=1, lang=en)
- - - subItem EN-1.2.2   (menu=1, lang=en)
- Item EN-2  (menu=1, lang=en)
- - subItem EN-2.1  (menu=1, lang=en)
- - - subItem EN-2.1.1   (menu=1, lang=en)
- - - subItem EN-2.1.2   (menu=1, lang=en)
NL  (menu=1, lang=nl) menu_link => Item NL-1
- Item NL-1  (menu=1, lang=nl)
- - subItem NL-1.1  (menu=1, lang=nl)
- - - subItem NL-1.1.1   (menu=1, lang=nl)
- - - subItem NL-1.1.2   (menu=1, lang=nl)
- - subItem NL-1.2  (menu=1, lang=nl)
- - - subItem NL-1.2.1   (menu=1, lang=nl)
- - - subItem NL-1.2.2   (menu=1, lang=nl)
- Item NL-2  (menu=1, lang=nl)
- - subItem NL-2.1  (menu=1, lang=nl)
- - - subItem NL-2.1.1   (menu=1, lang=nl)
- - - subItem NL-2.1.2   (menu=1, lang=nl)

Code: (Language-menue)

<?php

show_menu2(1, SM2_ROOT, SM2_START, SM2_ALL|SM2_PRETTY);

?>

Code: (Main-menue)

<?php

show_menu2( 1, SM2_ROOT+1, SM2_START+3, SM2_TRIM|SM2_PRETTY);

?>

the additional format strings of sm2 you must build by yourself. See help in README.en.txt

There is nothing strange, nothing 'magic'...  simply one, strong hierarchically menu only with more then one language.

Take care:   show_menu() is no longer supported and should be replaced by show_menu2().

[mwestrik]

Hi DarkViper,

Thanks for the explanation. The menu structure already was as you described it. The show_menu2 code you gave for the main menu did work a lot better. Changing it slightly from SM2_TRIM to SM2_ALL made it perfect. Main menu problem solved therefore. Many thanks!

For the language menu however, still the same problem. You have made clear what happens, though. As I understand it right, on the Dutch pages, the SM2_START pages English and Espanol are NOT shown because those pages are not in Dutch. That could obviously easily be solved by hardcoding the language links, but I'm as always curious whether there would be a solution or not.

The reason I wanted it to be generated instead of hardcoding was, again, a shortcoming of my own knowledge. For one of my sites, I did hardcode the language menu. My error was that I coded to the first page in the language, f.i. english/index.php. Problem of course was that, if a customer changed the name of the intropage, from index.php to company.php for instance, the link would be broken. I was unaware that you can also, more logical, make a link to english.php instead!