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Nedim Hozić
Nedim Hozić

Reputation: 1901

Language switcher in joomla 3 not showing flags

I'm trying to make the language switcher to work, I have already made all menus for each language I was gonna use, but when I enable this module, It just shows me the name of the module(when I put it to show), not the flags. What should i do?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9076

Answers (5)

Kaxa
Kaxa

Reputation: 555

Plugins ->  System - Language Filter  ->  Automatic Language Change -> No

This will prevent automatic language changin which is often reason for this

Upvotes: 0

tristanbailey
tristanbailey

Reputation: 4605

Found that You need to set a default homepage that can be in hidden menu (and redirect from later) to Language "All"

But then also go to each menu and make the page 1 language and also Homepage.

So for me I have now 3 language homepages menu items. All, En, De

How did I discover this: I needed to turn on a module in the Admin: Language Status Administrator Module This makes a small button bottom left in the Admin, and modal points out 3 different topic per language installed, told me I had not any homepages, and so would get no flags. (Thanks to Per on Joomla forum answer from 2016)

Happy fixing.

Upvotes: 1

user3386180
user3386180

Reputation:

It's an old question but, telling from the comments, a recurring problem. Seems like there can be multiple root causes. One thing to check is also that you have marked the default menu item for each language. If not, the corresponding language does not show in the language switcher.

Upvotes: 3

Joemaniax
Joemaniax

Reputation: 56

I lost a full day of my life with this topic.

The issue was that language tag was badly setup in System -> Language Manager -> Content For example for French I had fr when it should have been fr-FR After that I had to rebuild/redo all the Language assignments for French on Pages, categories, menus, template.

The flag finally showed up...

Upvotes: 4

David Kotler
David Kotler

Reputation: 3

you need to set up the languages in the Language Manager? under extensions.. and make sure you published the "System - Language Filter" plugin.

Upvotes: 0

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