2) It's unrelated to the issue, but according to your Debug.info, the WP memory limit needs to be increased. PHP memory is fine, but WordPress uses 40Mb as default. The minimum requirements for WPML are 128 MB. (Kindly check this page https://wpml.org/home/minimum-requirements/)
You can increase it by adding the following code in your wp-config.php file right before the /* That's all, stop editing! Happy publishing. */ line:
With a lot of tinkering I managed to make the ACF fields visible in the EN version (original language is Dutch). But now, when I enter a translation, the Dutch field also changes into English. Where can I turn that option off? I looked through a lot of documentation an YT-vids but most of them are too old be of much help. The UI and flow has changed too much for me, sorry.
Hope you now where the checkbox is that I have to click! 😉
(BTW I upped the memory, made no difference.)
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Would you please let me know where to check the issue on your site and how to reproduce it?
Also, I would need to look closely at your site, so I would need to request temporary access (WP-Admin and FTP)
– preferably to a test site where the problem has been replicated if possible –
in order to be of better help and check if some configurations might need to be changed.
Your next answer will be private, which means only you and I can access it.
❌ Please backup your database and website ❌
✙ I would need your permission to de-activate and re-activate the Plugins and the Theme and change configurations on the site. This is also a reason the backup is critical.
✙ I also need your permission to take a local copy of your site to debug the issue without affecting your live site.
Great that you want to help me out.
I also contacted an experienced Dutch specialist and arranged a videocall tomorrow 12 (noon, Amsterdam time).
Maybe he can help me and that could save you a lot of diagnosing. Jus to let you know.
Feel free to do whatever you like but I wouldn't mind if you wait till I come back to you tomorrow. I have copied the site to another URL as well so we won't get in each other's way, in case you want to take a look anyway.
Elaborating on my problem:
I have 2 Field Groups (for now).
The 'Category info' works fine. The 'Partner info' does not.
The groups are assigned to Categories and Partners (additional Authors group, to enable Authors that aren't Partners in the firm).
I must have done something wrong with the group 'Partner info' in the beginning because that Field Group doesn't work. First I had no visible English Fields and when I finally managed to activate these, they synced their content with the Dutch original. I can't find where to turn that syncing off and I can't follow what is written in documentation.
If you could repair it and let me know what I should do next time, that would be great.
Both Field groups are set to "Same Fields across languages" which is fine, but I never meant to say "same content across languages"!
I have backed up the site.
English translations were only entered for testing purposes, so you can delete all English ACF-fields for the group "Partner info" if you like. I also have a version of the site wh
Please leave the group 'Category info' as is, if possible, including English, because that group works as expected.
And please -obviously- keep the original Dutch content.
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Nobody will work on the site.
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You have my permission to take a local copy of the site to debug the issue without affecting your live site.
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I'll wait for the access details after the mentioned meeting to let me know the updates before logging into the site.
I had a videocall with Boris Hoekmeijer. We pinned down the problem: ACF Fields in type User can only be edited in the String Translator. For my client this is not workable, unfortunately.
I'm wondering why Type User ACF Fields are not treated as ACF fields for other Types. I hope we are missing something. Otherwise I'll have to make a CPT and register each new user twice: as WP User AND as a new Custom Post. I was hoping to avoid that.
I guess you won't need credentials to answer this question, otherwise, let me know!
Thanks in advance.
I'm afraid you found the workaround for such a case because user types (Admin, Author, Subscriber, etc) are not post types (Post, Page, Product, etc), so they are not treated like a post type because of how they are saved in the database and how WordPress treats them.
Also, please note that user types are not posts, so they are not translatable. You can only translate some user info using String Translation, but the user itself is not translatable because some fields can't be duplicated due to WordPress regulations.
Now I can fully appreciate that native WordPress User Fields need restrictive protection. Especially User Name, email address, password, telephone, website and such more.
Having said this, I really don’t get why this also goes for ACF fields that are assigned to another Type then Page, Post, Category. We’re talking ACF Fields like all others. It’s just the condition where they should be displayed that is different.
I’d suggest that WPML just skip the restriction for Custom Fields if they are assigned to a User Type. They can be stored like all other Fields. You could even display them in the User Profile (a plugin like Custom Profile Picture does this as well)
After all, If WordPress allows adding ACF fields to User Fields, what’s the use of not being able to translate these?
Of course you can’t help it, I understand. Please don’t take this personally 😉 But maybe it’s something to discuss (again), internally.
I’ll do that tomorrow from a backup because I am working with the CPT already.
I think it’s less work for you if you create an ACF Field Group (with a text area field for example) and assign the Group to User Type.
Then set it up in WPML (ACFML active) for another language.
You’ll probably need to set the Field(s) in the Group to ‘translatable’ in Expert Mode.
After that, the content between the two remain 2-way synced.
If you see something different, please let me know!
But I’ll try do find out how to export my current Field Groups tomorrow.
Confirmed.
- Go to the User Page
- Click on the Dutch language flag
- Change the text in the test field and save
- After saving, the page switches back to English automatically (Why?).
- You will see both languages have the same text in the test field.
