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How to use multistore with language selector block?


dirdi

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Hello,

I need your help please. I have read several documentation and I am not able to finish the multistore settings to my needs; I need them linked to their respective language in the language selector block.

 

I have created the store and now I have

 

www.store.com and

www.store.com/enshop

 

I want to have a frontend language selector block that will be able to:

when you choose Spanish (main shop) the  www.store.com will be load

and when you choose English the www.store.com/enshop will be load....

 

I have assigned bought  language to bought stores in Languages tab and like this I have the language block on the front end but it is just using the /en and /es site not the different stores.

 

I also set in Location  the  www.store.com/enshop as language EN ; I cant change the ES in Advanced parameters, the option to change in those to fields is disables.

 

Is there a native way to connect 2 stores on the frontend by choosing languages?

 

If not, what would be the manual way of doing it?

 

Thank you

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Go to BO Localization  > Languages

 

Click the edit icon for each language and then disable the store that you don't want for this language.

 

Edit* Sorry I read your question wrong. That feature is not built into PS. You may find a module or have a custom solution. That sort of thing would be very little cost.

Edited by Bill Dalton (see edit history)
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Go to BO Localization  > Languages

 

Click the edit icon for each language and then disable the store that you don't want for this language.

 

Edit* Sorry I read your question wrong. That feature is not built into PS. You may find a module or have a custom solution. That sort of thing would be very little cost.

 

I like Bill's  answer, because i cannot for the life of me understand why one would want to make visitor select anything other than add to cart...also I am concerned you have two(2) gTLD's, i.e. .com's with same  content , i.e. shared customer/products/cats/  etc yes?  If so then you will very possible be penalized for duplicate content, this assumes you will still have both languages on both shops....hope I have not confused things but I been multi-shopping since 1.4 days...

 

Sure I have seen websites that ask for country, but they have many countries, but I have not seen one  that changes website based solely on language, well unless that cms website does not have nice lang feature like  ps...

 

happy multishopping

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Thank you for your feedbacks.

 

I will try some manual option than...

 

Regarding the duplicate content, I dont think is the case...at least I think so, as one will be in English and the other in Spanish, or I am missing something?

I need to have different stores because of content language , I have clients from different European countries .

 

Thank you

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Hi, not saying 100% duplicate content, it's just something you want to be 'very' careful about.  Here is some reading that might help.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en

 

using ccTLD's for specific country, i.e. .fr  .uk etc...helps your organics.

 

.coms (ok, you may not like this, is associated to the US).

 

so when we use a .com  we compete with  'all' .coms even if we are  only selling regionally or by country.

 

it's an interesting area and fun to learn

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Thank you, interesting approaching and I will study this more carefully.

 

I was thinking that because the content language is different I am on the shore side of the duplicate issue.

 

My shop is a .eu domain, for the moment my main clients come from Spain and I am looking to expand the business to English speaking surfers from Europe, and than even more later some regional languages/countries.

 

I need multistore to be able to set different promotions, different prices, discounts, shipping...etc

As said I will investigate more before deciding how to proceed.....

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