I want to translate the values that I have placed into the input fields with Advanced Custom Fields:
Lot N°
1
Purchased from
Minimum estimate price
100
Maximum estimate price
150
Minimum price
100
Remarks
Shards
The use of shortcode enables the ACF entries to display in the frontend (you can find this in the backend in the Custom tabs section of the Product data:
Thank you for contacting WPML support, I'd be happy to help you with this issue.
The number value is not supported to translate as the normal content in Advanced Translation Editor (ATE), it should be copied across languages. If you want to translate it, please ensure the field preference is set to Translate and search for the number in ATE. Please check this screenshot hidden link
Thank you for the clarification. How would I be able to translate an ACF text field which uses the ACF shortcode to display it in the frontend? The documentation is not clear to me.
Please go to Custom Fields > Edit the field group > Set the field preference to Translate.
Then make a small change to the post title/content > save changes > update the translation and translate the field value.
If it does not help, I would like to request temporary access (wp-admin and FTP) to your site to take a better look at the issue. It would be better to a testing site where the issue is replicated. Your next reply is set to private to share the info.
And let me know the post/page that you are translating.
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You can use this plugin to create the backup: https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
✙ I would need your permission to de-activate and re-activate Plugins and the Theme and to change configurations on the site if needed. This is also a reason the backup is critical.
Hi, I've noticed the ACF values copy now across languages, and also that the ACF Remarks value can be translated. Can you explain how you managed to do this? Also, can the redundant translation fields as you can see in the screenshot be removed?
After making a change in the field group settings, you might need to update the post > save changes and update the translation to copy value across languages or clear the cache to prevent a caching issue.
For the redundant fields, there is no option to remove the field label and field group title from the translation editor. They are supported to translate in the WPML translation editor from ACFML 2.0, before that you need to use the code to translate the field label and the field group title is not translated.
So I have to follow these steps:
1) install ACF translation module from WPML
2) Go to Custom Fields > Field Group > Select expert option
3) Select only “Remarks” field (because this has a text value) for translation (both field label and value will display as translatable in the Advanced translation editor of the product page)
4) The fields with number values can be left untouched as the values will copy automatically across all languages
5) Open the product page in its original language and save it in order to take the changes into effect
6) Also empty server and browser cache
7) Start translating.
Hi, the fields which are set to "copy" are displayed in the advanced translation editor. Let's say if I would set them to "don't translate", the fields would be gone in the translator, but then the values wouldn't distribute across languages. Am I correct?
"Translate" or "Copy" here is the field value. On your screenshot, they are field labels and field group title and they are supported to translate in the Advanced Translation Editor (ATE). There is no option to exclude them from ATE. However, you just need to translate them at once.
>> The fields which are set to "copy" are displayed in the advanced translation editor.
No, if the field preference is set to "Copy", the field value will not display in ATE.
>> Let's say if I would set them to "don't translate", the fields would be gone in the translator, but then the values wouldn't distribute across languages.
Yes, correct.
