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As you've seen as we built this multilingual Web site, you've noticed that there

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are a ton of steps that go into putting together a multilanguage Web site.

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Lots and lots of little things, lots of steps that are very easy to forget, or

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overlook along the way, and fortunately Joomla

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has recognized that this might be a problem,

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and one of the things that they've offered here in Joomla

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in the core is an Administrator module that may help you debug where you have

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forgotten a step along the way, or where a problem might be occurring,

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and I'm going to show that to you now.

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So if we go to Extensions > Module Manager, we'll need to flip over to the

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Administrator module, so over here in the left column, pick Administrator from

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the list, and these are all of the Administrator modules in the Web site.

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We looked at these earlier with the Joomla version.

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There is another module down here called Multilanguage status.

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And if you click on this, as you see here, this is the module that will show the

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status of the multilanguage parameters.

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By default, this is set to show up in the status bar; that's the little gray bar

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down here at the bottom of the Web site.

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I'm going to go ahead and say Published, and I am going to say Save & Close.

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Now that this module is published, down here in the footer of the Web site, you'll

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see that I have a link here for Multilanguage Status, right in the very, very

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bottom left-hand corner.

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And if I click on this, this will report what's going on with my current Web site.

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So it will tell me that the Language Filter Plugin is enabled, and that's one of

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those steps that's small, and very easy to forget,

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so that's a really helpful thing.

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It will tell you how many Language Switcher modules you have published, and how

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many default Home pages you have for your Web site.

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So, how many default Home pages should you have?

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Well, the answer for this Web site is three.

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You need to have one homepage assigned to the language of All, and then one

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homepage for each one of your languages.

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So since I have two languages, and one homepage assigned to all, the total is three.

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So this will tell you if you're missing one of those homepages for one of the

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languages that you might be trying to support.

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The grid down here at the bottom tells you whether you have the content

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languages, the site languages, and the default home pages set up and in place.

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Remember, the default home pages I just covered.

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The content languages have to do with whether that dropdown is

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configured correctly.

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We did is right at the very beginning of this chapter, where we added Italian as

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another language that would show up in the dropdowns that we see in categories,

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and articles, and menus; it's where we assign the language for any one of those

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pieces of information.

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And then, of course, the site languages; that is, have you installed the

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language packs for Joomla?

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And we had installed Italian right at the very, very beginning of the chapter.

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So this little box of information will tell you if you've missed any of those

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major steps along the way.

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If this is looking good, and you might still be having issues, you might go

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through and check your content, check your categories, your articles, your menu

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items, your modules, your template styles, and make sure that those are assigned

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the correct languages, and that you have enough categories, articles, modules,

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template styles, and so forth to go around for all of the content that you're

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offering on the Web site.

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So between this, and that double-check for all of your content, you should be

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able to put together a multilingual Web site, and diagnose any problems that you

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run into along the way.

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Since I've already got my multilingual Web site running, and all of this stuff

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is configured, I don't really need this module active right now, and in the

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footer of my Web site.

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So I'm going to go ahead and close this pop-up window, and then I'm going

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unpublish the Multilanguage status option down here at the bottom.

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But if you want to keep yours published and on, there's certainly no downside

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to doing that.