[J3.5] News 2 page language not changing, stays English

Hey there,

I just bought the News 2 template and installed it on Joomla 3.5 with the quickstart package. Now I wanted to change the page language from English to German. Therefore I installed the German language package as you can see in picture 1.

This didn't work, I still saw Read More and other phrases on my page so I went further and even thought it could be a good idea to disable English as content language (seen in picture 2).

In picture 3 you can see my settings for the content language German.

Under \language\ I even find a folder with the name 'de-DE' but still everything (like "Read More", "updated on", "Written by") seems to stay English when I look at the page's front end.

Did I miss something in the template or should I ask in a Joomla specific community?

Thanks, Benjamin

Hi

Please show me what haven't changed. Modules will not be affected by joomla language pack, they require separate translations.

Mucho stupido I have been, or at least I just figured it out. The thing is a difference in the behaviour of some templates. For work I am using the News 2 template, for a project of somebody else I started with the Hotel template (not yet translated). Because of your comment I compared those two template structures and realised they are acting different with their language files:
* the Hotel created a folder named language under its template folder
* News didn't have the language folder in its own place, only the language folder in the root directory existed

Initially I thought I need to work in the template language folder (as I had the impression this made sense), but this was obviously wrong. I copied my translated file to <root>/language/de-DE and now it works.

Sorry that the solution was so close, but sometimes it's the direct talking about it that gives you the final solution.

Thanks for your reply

Hi

No problem. I'm glad You've been able to solve Your issue. Thread closed.