[Closed] Custom Fields be autotranslated while i update only MAIN language?

Hello,

thanks for contacting us.

First, you need to make sure you are using Advanced Custom Fields Multilingual (ACFML) plugin which is needed for ACF to work correctly with WPML.

If you are using Translate everything mode and have set mentioned subfields to Translate, when you update the default language page, page content including fields set to translate will be automatically translated.

As for COPY, yes it copies the same value to other languages.

As for slugs, if you wish to use specific translations you can add those words to the glossary so it uses your suggested translation.

I suggest checking the next docs which have more details information about mentioned:

- https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/
- https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/translating-custom-fields/
- https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/translate-sites-built-with-acf/recommended-custom-fields-translation-preferences-for-acf-and-wpml/
- https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/translate-sites-built-with-acf/
- https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/advanced-translation-editor/how-to-create-and-manage-glossary-entries/

Let us know how it goes and if any related doubts or questions.

Regards,
Drazen

Hi,

ACFML is not needed then.

Regards,
Bruno Kos

Hi,

Automatic translation will translate everything that appears in translation editor, as simple as that. It does not matter whether this is custom field coming from a theme, user-defined custom field, Gutenberg block or any other type of the content.

However according to your screenshots, you are using classic translation editor. The only option where automatic translation would work is if you have the following activated https://wpml.org/documentation/automatic-translation/#translating-your-whole-site-automatically

Also from what I see in your screenshot, some of these may not be translated as expected (words with hypens and similar), translation editor may simply copy them as how it will be translated depends upon the translation engine used https://wpml.org/documentation/automatic-translation/how-to-change-automatic-translation-engines/

In such cases, I can advise you to use https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/advanced-translation-editor/how-to-create-and-manage-glossary-entries/ so that, in case you switch to automatic translation, these are not automatically translated improperly which may break your site functionality ( for example if the custom field requires specific translation, in case the automatic translation is something else which is expected by your theme, for example fave-status as you have it or similar).

Regards,
Bruno Kos