Polylang issue with menu sections

Hi Chris,

Given that, the way menu is designed to be used, there shouldn’t usually be any reason to have people publicly visiting the taxonomy archive pages for the menu sections, I’d say that you workaround provides pretty much all the functionality you require.

As for why your issue is happening, I’m not certain. We don’t normally run tests specifically with Polylang. The sections are a registered taxonomy, so, as long as Polylang supports the translation of taxonomy terms, it should work the same as translating any other taxonomy. Is there some kind of option in Polylang that lets you enable specific taxonomies or taxonomy terms? If so, can you check to make sure ours is correctly enabled?

You can also try enabling debugging in WordPress (https://ww.wp.xz.cn/documentation/article/debugging-in-wordpress/). Then go through the process again, until it erases your menu layout, and see if it displays any errors. If not, check the debug log to see if there are any relevant errors in there (hopefully with reference to a specific file in our plugin with a line number) and share that here.

Does Polylang provide a way to search for and translate specific strings (like WPML’s string translation extension)? Perhaps you can search for Fish (and any other section names) that way and translate all instances that you find.