Translation settings
Languages are not configured on the Fenómenus settings screen. They are enabled through the translation layer, and Fenómenus reacts to what is enabled.
Where languages are enabled
The setup assistant, Step 1 — Your restaurant. When a translation layer is installed, the step shows the current site language and lists the additional languages as checkboxes:
Castellano · Catalán · Euskara · Galego · English · Deutsch · Français · Русский
Ticking one enables it; unticking one disables it. The change applies when the step is saved.
If no additional languages are available, the screen says so rather than showing an empty list.
The site language
Shown on that step but not editable there. It is the source that every translation is made from, so it should be settled before the menu is built.
What Fenómenus does once languages exist
| Area | Behavior |
|---|---|
| Item edit screen | A translation panel with a language tab and translatable fields per language |
| Publishing | A status change applies to the item and all its translations |
| Ordering | A reorder applies the same position to every translation |
| Allergens | Applied to every translation when the item is saved |
| Categories | Translated item kept pointing at the matching translated category |
| Admin lists | All items and All categories work in the main language |
| QR generator | One code per language, in labelled groups |
| Public archives | A language switcher, when the Language toggler is enabled |
The one Fenómenus setting that concerns languages
Language toggler, per menu type, under Content settings → Content settings. It decides whether the category navigation carries the language control on that archive.
On a multilingual site, enable it everywhere. A guest deep in the wine list should not have to return to the home page to change language.
What is shared and what is translated
| Translated | Shared |
|---|---|
| Titles, subtitles, descriptions, long descriptions | Prices |
| Block titles and contents on tasting and set menus | Allergens |
| Footer notes | Images |
| Category names | Category assignments |
| Labels such as the featured term name | The menu order and publication status |
Prices and allergens are shared deliberately: a guest reading any language must be quoted the same price and told the same allergens.
Adding a language after launch
Do not restart the setup assistant just to add a language — re-saving its later steps regenerates layouts and re-applies the home template.
Enable the language in the translation layer's own settings, then translate the content as usual.
Removing a language
Unticking a language stops publishing it. Translated content is not deleted, so it can come back later without retranslating.
Check what was printed first: table material or a PDF for that language stops being useful.
Without a translation layer
Fenómenus publishes in the site language only. The translation panel, public language switcher, and per-language QR groups are absent, and nothing is broken — it is simply a single-language site.
Related
- Translation options — deciding which languages to publish.
- Translate with POM Translate
- Translate with Polylang