BuddyPress – Profile fields are not translated on the frontend

Status: Resolved
Type: Bug
Reported for: WPML Multilingual for BuddyPress and BuddyBoss 1.7.0
Resolved in: BuddyPress Multilingual 1.8.0
Related plugin/theme: BuddyPress

Overview of the issue

The BuddyPress plugin allows you to create new profile fields (opens in a new tab) which you can translate using WPML’s BuddyPress Multilingual glue plugin. However, even if those fields appear as translated in WPML → String Translation, those translations are not visible in the front-end.

Workaround

Please, be sure of making a full backup of your site before proceeding.

Add the following code to the functions.php file.

 //WPML Workaround wpml_compsupp6144
add_filter( 'bp_get_the_profile_field_value', 'wpml_compsupp6144_translate_buddypress_profile_fields', 10, 3 ); 
 
function wpml_compsupp6144_translate_buddypress_profile_fields( $value, $type, $id ) {
     
    if ($type == 'textbox' || $type == 'wp-textbox' || $type == 'wp-biography') {
        //remove html tags from value and limit it's size, so we can use it as string name
        $filtered_value = substr(strip_tags($value), 0, 60);
        //register string
        do_action( 'wpml_register_single_string', 'BuddyPress Profile Fields', $type.' - '.$filtered_value , $value );
        //translate string
        $value = apply_filters('wpml_translate_single_string', $value, 'BuddyPress Profile Fields', $type.' - '.$filtered_value  );
    }   
    
    return $value;
}

Visit the profile page on the front-end. This will register the fields for translation.
Go to WPML → String Translation and translate the field values under the BuddyPress Profile Fields domain.
Go back to the profile page on front-end. The fields should now be translated.

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