Intro
Borlabs Cookie supports WPML, Polylang and Weglot. WPML and Weglot offer some advantages over Polylang and the setup with WPML and Weglot is easier than with Polylang.
Here we show you how to proceed if you still want to use Polylang with Borlabs Cookie.
Working with Polylang
Using Polylang, you can configure Borlab's cookie individually per language.
To do this, select the language you want to configure Borlabs Cookie for in the toolbar at the top. You cannot select the All languages option for Borlabs Cookie.
Make sure that the correct flag icon of the language you want to configure Borlabs Cookie for is displayed on the right side of the Borlabs Cookie menu bar.
If you use Polylang, you have to translate texts manually. Just click on e.g. Cookie Box, scroll down and change the texts in the fields. You can find more texts under Cookies, Cookie Groups and Content Blocker in the respective entries.
Polylang settings
The language must be determined by the directory name, subdomain or domain. The option "The language was determined by the content" cannot be used! Click Settings in Polylang and choose a different option under URL Customizations.
Work with multiple languages
Borlabs Cookie can link different languages based on the ID of the Cookies, Cookie Groups and Content Blockers. To do this, the ID must be identical across all languages.
The selected Cookie Group is not available in the current language.
If you receive this message, you tried to change the language while you were in the edit mode of a Cookie, Cookie Group or Content Blocker and the ID does not yet exist in the target language.
You can now either save the entry to create the ID for the selected language or click on the Dashboard or Help & Support to have Borlabs Cookie create the default entries (see next section).
Common problems
Standard Cookie Groups, Content Blocker and Cookies are missing
By default, Borlabs Cookie creates the four Cookie Groups (Essential, External Media, Marketing, and Statistics), the Borlabs cookie, and Content Blocker.
If you add a new language, these default entries will be missing, as shown in the picture below.
To fix the problem, just click Dashboard or Help & Support. Borlabs Cookie will detect the missing default entries and create them.
From the status display of Default Content Blocker, Default Cookie Groups, and Default Cookies you can see that the default entries have been created.
If you now click back on, e.g. Cookie Groups you will see the four default groups.
Note for Borlabs Cookie as of version 2.1
If the default entries cannot be created, make sure that the language code consists of only 2 characters (ISO 639-1, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes), e.g. pt and not pt-pt.
As of version 2.1 of Borlabs Cookie, language codes longer than 2 characters are also supported. For this, the following entry must be stored in the wp-config.php:
define('BORLABS_COOKIE_IGNORE_ISO_639_1', true);Texts in the wrong language
If the texts on the English side are in German or vice versa, you can simply correct that.
Once the WordPress is loaded in the language you want to set up Borlabs Cookie in, you can select the Reset option under Cookie Groups, Cookies and Content Blocker in the overviews at the very bottom to have all default entries created in the correct language.
Under Cookie Box, you simply empty all fields in the text settings and click on Save. The texts will then be loaded in the current language.