Advanced Custom Fields – Radio Values Not Being Removed from Automatic Translation

Overview of the Issue

When translating pages that include an Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) Gallery block with radio button selections, these radio choices are unexpectedly appearing in the Advanced Translation Editor (ATE).

Workaround

Update to ACFML 5.0 or later, then set the radio fields to Copy in their field group. Only real text then goes to automatic translation.

If you cannot update yet:

• Open your theme’s functions.php file.
• Add the following code:

  // WPML Workaround for compsupp-7404
  add_filter( 'wpml_found_strings_in_block', function( array $strings, WP_Block_Parser_Block $block ) {
  
  	$isInBlacklistedStrings = function( string $fieldName ) {
  
  		// Add the fields to ignore here
  		$fieldsToIgnore = [];
  		$fieldsToIgnore[] = 'gallery_section_type';
  		$fieldsToIgnore[] = 'gallery_section_variant';
  
  		if ( in_array($fieldName, $fieldsToIgnore) ) {
  			return true;
  		}
  
  		return false;
      };
  
  	if ( $block->blockName == 'acf/gallery' ) {
  		foreach( $block->attrs['data'] as $fieldName => $string ) {
  			if ( $isInBlacklistedStrings( $fieldName ) ) {
  				unset( $block->attrs['data'][ $fieldName ] );
  			}
  		}
  	}
  
      return $strings;
  }, 9, 2 ); // Lower priority than 10.

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