Enfols multilanguage site using child and parents sub-directories on WP basis

Hi,
Thank you for your patience, I checked your cPanel File Manager and found that you had an empty DE directory, so I deleted it for you, try creating a new clone now.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Glad that this helped, we will leave this open to hear back from you.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
You can add menu links to the sites that are live, and add the other ones later.
Try adding a structure like this with the custom menu items and links to each site

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Yes this is possible and I have made this modification to your site, but in doing so I found that your URLs are not the same across all three sites so you will need to change all pages on all sites to match, and you may not wish to do this, but I added the code so you can decide.
So to test this I added three test pages on these three sites:

your french site is your core site with no “FR” in the URL, I know you know this but in the future people will want to know how this works 🙂
Anyways, I disabled your topbar menu and enabled the topbar Enfold Theme Options ▸ Header ▸ Extra Elements ▸ Phone Number or small info text to hold the language switcher shortcode, you can easily switch back to using the topbar menu there if you wish.
This is the shortcode I added: [dynamic_lang_switcher lang="EN"] * [dynamic_lang_switcher lang="IT"] * [dynamic_lang_switcher lang="FR"] on the frontend it shows the whole language word:

Then I added this code to the end of your child theme functions.php file in Appearance ▸ Editor on all three sites:

function dynamic_language_switcher($lang) {
    // Get the current full URL
    $protocol = (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] === 'on' ? "https" : "http") . "://";
    $current_url = $protocol . $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];

    // Base URL without language
    $base_url = $protocol . 'guidedtour.ch/';

    // If the language is French, return the current URL without language segment
    if (strtoupper($lang) == 'FR') {
        $path = str_replace($base_url, '', $current_url);
        $segments = explode('/', trim($path, '/'));

        if (in_array($segments[0], array('EN', 'IT'))) {
            array_shift($segments); // Remove the language segment
        }
        return $base_url . implode('/', $segments) . '/';
    }

    // Remove the base URL to get just the path
    $path = str_replace($base_url, '', $current_url);

    // Split the path into segments
    $segments = explode('/', trim($path, '/'));

    // Check if the first segment is a known language code
    if (in_array($segments[0], array('EN', 'IT'))) {
        // Replace the existing language code with the desired one
        $segments[0] = $lang;
    } else {
        // If the first segment is not a language code, prepend the desired language code
        array_unshift($segments, $lang);
    }

    // Construct the new URL
    $new_url = $base_url . implode('/', $segments) . '/';

    return $new_url;
}


function dynamic_language_switcher_shortcode($atts) {
    // Mapping short language codes to their full word representations
    $language_names = array(
        'EN' => 'English',
        'IT' => 'Italian',
        'FR' => 'French'
    );

    $atts = shortcode_atts(
        array(
            'lang' => 'EN'
        ), 
        $atts, 
        'dynamic_lang_switcher'
    );

    $url = dynamic_language_switcher($atts['lang']);
    
    // Display the full word representation, but link to the appropriate URL
    return '<a href="' . $url . '">' . $language_names[strtoupper($atts['lang'])] . '</a>';
}
add_shortcode('dynamic_lang_switcher', 'dynamic_language_switcher_shortcode');

and now you can go to any of those three pages and click the new language switcher and go to the corresponding page in any language.
But unfortunately it looks like all of your other menu items don’t match across your sites.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
I checked all three sites and made the adjustments needed, the white space around the EN site slider looks like was caused by the page being saved as a “Block Editor” page instead of the Advanced Layout Builder that it is, I corrected. Please note that ALB pages should not be edited or saved with the Block Editor.
Please check your sites.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Yes it is also called the default editor, the WordPress default editor has two choices at Enfold Theme Options ▸ Select Your Editor the Classic Editor & the Block Editor, this is the one that you are currently using. I’m just in the Habit of specifying the one used. when I write.
This thread is very long now, and it seems like we have covered creating a multi-language site using sub-directories fairly well now, did you have any more questions on this, or do you feel comfortable if we closed this thread?

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
I believe that I already solved the “line 2” error, at least I don’t see it anymore, I checked all three sites, I solved it by correctly the code on the page.
If you see the editor error again, switch to the Advanced Layout Builder and save the page again, if this doesn’t help you will need to use the page revisions and go back to a version before the last save, so you may lose some of your last edits.
Whenever you open a ALB page and don’t see the ABL toolbar please use the ALB button to switch to it before saving to page.

Best regards,
Mike