Hello

Side modules are not being rendered in k2 item pages in our multilingual website. in single language websites we solved this by creating a hidden menu item linked to all k2 categories. this did not work for the multilingual site however.

How do we go about fixing this?
Thank you

Unless I create a hidden menu item for k2 categories, single k2 articles will not render in a menu item page. as far as i know you can only assign modules to menu pages.

Hidden menu >>> /site_name/menu_page/category_name/item_name.

no hidden menu >>> /site_name/category_name/item_name

on our multi language website the k2 ignores that hidden menu for some reason. perhaps because there is /en for language in the address or something?

Does this category belong to another menu item as well?
Keep in mind that despite the hidden menu, the menu item itself should be assigned to a specific language.

There is one blog menu which has two parent categories assigned.(tested this with one parent category too) and a hidden menu that has all child categories assigned.

I have tried assigning only one child category to the hidden menu and that seems to work for articles in that single category. it would be very inconvenient if we have to create a menu item for every single category though.

If you have that parent category assigned then you do not need necessarily the subcategory assigned as well, although if you do assign it you will end up with cleaner/shorter URLs.

The main issue here is that I can't display side modules on k2 single article pages. we over come that by creating a hidden menu item and assigned all sub categories to it.( this solution was posted online somewhere). this is not working for multi lingual sites however and we still cant display side modules on single k2 items. unless we create a menu item for every single category.

I think you should look for an extension which handles these modules.
Have you tried modules anywhere?

An other approach would be with custom coding but that would still require mapping all that content to menu items.

This is no longer an issue.

After removing a duplicate hidden menu and double checking the category list in the main menu. Article page was rendering all side modules correctly.

Thank you

You 're welcome SE.