How do I synchronize my location search if I enter different languages?

We have moved to a support ticketing system and our forums are now closed.

Open Support Ticket

Author

Posts
July 30, 2019 at 6:50 pm #500448

Alexander Krutov
Expired Member

Post count: 652

Maybe this isn’t the best idea. And it is better to make sure that the links found in the local switch of one city, but in different languages, were redirected to the location page in the active language?

July 30, 2019 at 6:52 pm #500449

Alexander Krutov
Expired Member

Post count: 652

You could explain what it means “Translation of the location pages”?

July 30, 2019 at 7:01 pm #500450

Alex Rollin
Moderator

Post count: 27815

Use WPML to make a copy of the location page in each language that you use for WPML, same as for the template pages.

July 30, 2019 at 7:18 pm #500452

Alexander Krutov
Expired Member

Post count: 652

I have already made such translations of the page. It seems that there is nothing complicated here.

July 31, 2019 at 6:33 am #500526

Kiran
Moderator

Post count: 7069

Hi Alexander,

If searched with location name and it selected from location switcher results then it shows results within selected location. But if searched via lat/lon then it shows results within range of distance.

The location switcher shows autocomplete results from location table. It is hard to identify the language of the location, because it has no reference in which language the location was stored and even hard to find language of location. Things you asking is good but i think it is not feasible to implement easily.

Regards,
Kiran

July 31, 2019 at 1:42 pm #500571

Alexander Krutov
Expired Member

Post count: 652

So this is a question you don’t want to worry about?

August 1, 2019 at 6:40 am #500682

Kiran
Moderator

Post count: 7069

Hi Alexander,

We implements feature based on priority if more customers requests similar feature then we will surly implement.

Thanks,
Kiran

August 1, 2019 at 6:43 am #500683

Alexander Krutov
Expired Member

Post count: 652

It’s worth asking the clients. Not all users offer changes, even if they want them.

August 1, 2019 at 8:31 am #500689

Alex Rollin
Moderator

Post count: 27815

This reply has been marked as private.

August 1, 2019 at 8:42 am #500690

Alexander Krutov
Expired Member

Post count: 652

If I understand your answer correctly, you won’t do this unless it’s requested by a sufficient (how many?) number of users. I’m not sure that anyone who needs improvement will send you a change request. And someone can refuse your product at all without even explaining that they need this feature. Although this feature is quite logical and necessary in a product that you report to be fully compatible with WPML. I would implement this feature right now. If you could ask customers who are designing a website for multiple countries and languages in the same country, I think they would say they really need this feature.

Translated with http://www.DeepL.com/Translator

August 1, 2019 at 8:43 am #500691

Alexander Krutov
Expired Member

Post count: 652

If I understand your answer correctly, you won’t do this unless it’s requested by a sufficient (how many?) number of users. I’m not sure that anyone who needs improvement will send you a change request. And someone can refuse your product at all without even explaining that they need this feature. Although this feature is quite logical and necessary in a product that you report to be fully compatible with WPML. I would implement this feature right now. If you could ask customers who are designing a website for multiple countries and languages in the same country, I think they would say they really need this feature.

August 2, 2019 at 9:21 am #500882

Stiofan O’Connor
Site Admin

Post count: 22956

Hi Alexander,

I don’t understand what the issue is here, to me it just looks like you have a city with two different spellings and they need to be merged? Can you help me understand the problem?

Thanks,

Stiofan

August 2, 2019 at 10:45 am #500889

Alexander Krutov
Expired Member

Post count: 652

Not quite so, but, for example, when a user is looking for the city of “Умань”, Google will show him 2 links and in both cases the city will be called “Умань” in both Russian and Ukrainian. The same will happen with the city of “Полтава”, “Ужгород” and others.

But there is another situation when written cities differ in several or one letter in Russian and Ukrainian. For example, “Ровно” and “Рівне”, “Бровары” and “Бровари”, “Харьков” and “Харків”, “Киев” and “Київ”.

And when a user searches for these cities, Google gives him two options. If you choose a variant with writing a city that is not in the list of active language listings, we get an empty result. I see a problem with that. But maybe I’m not setting up translations or displaying listings correctly? Please help.

August 2, 2019 at 11:50 am #500890

Stiofan O’Connor
Site Admin

Post count: 22956

When you say “Google gives them two options” where are you talking about, the location switcher options? From your first pic it looks like those are two locations in your DB and not from Google, so you would just have to merge them.

Stiofan

August 2, 2019 at 12:51 pm #500903

Alexander Krutov
Expired Member

Post count: 652

If you combine locations based on Russian and Ukrainian names, then one of the translations of the site will show the address in an inactive language. I think it’s wrong.

By the way, I have merged “Одесса” and “Одеса”. How can I separate them now?

I have an idea that it is better to make redirections:

in the Ukrainian version to redirect the Russian location to the Ukrainian location, and in the Russian version to make the Ukrainian location to the Russian location.

For example: /uk/location/ukraina/gorod-kiev/kiev/ -> /uk/location/ukraina/misto-kyiv/kyiv-1/

I’m interested in your opinion on this decision.
Author

Posts