[Closed] ACF Custom fields and Menus say they are translated, but they are not

Hi there,

I have reviewed the video you shared with us but it looks like it might be the wrong video as it's not related to the ACF fields issue.

1. What are the settings you have set for your ACF Field Groups?

Please share a screenshot with me so I can better understand.

2. Based on this warning you are receiving

"You need to translate this post manually because the field groups attached to it use different translation options."

Typically this will happen when the fields are set in different translation options --> some translate, some copy and maybe others copy once.

What are your results if you translated manually outside of the Advanced Translation Editor using the standard WP editor?

https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-different-translation-editors-for-different-pages/

Thank you! The video is great.

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Thank you,

Hi there,

Is my user missing some access details! I am not able to review the ACF field groups at the moment.

However, I was able to locate the issue and that is indeed that some fields are set to 'copy' while others are set to 'translate' creating an inconsistency and triggering this warning.

Step 1: Go to ACF Field Group settings
Navigate to Custom Fields → Field Groups.

Open each field group attached to the problematic post.

Step 2: Check WPML translation preferences
For each field group, scroll to the "Multilingual" section.

Make sure all fields within each group have consistent translation preferences (either "Copy", "Translate", or "Don't Translate").

Step 3: Edit and resave translations
After aligning settings, go back to the post.

Thank you, I was able to locate them.

A few things I noticed:

1. In the ACF options they are all set to Same fields across languages
This would mean that the content will be the same accross all alnguages and not translated.

2. However, the fields themselves are set to 'translate' which is what is allowing you to translate them

I am reviewing the homepage, at the moment it looks like all fields are translated and only the footer widgets are missing, am I correct? Apologies if that is covered in your video, unfortunately I dont have access to it anymore

3. Based on the above information it might be best to set all these items to "expert" which would allow you to have full control of them and still use the ATE editor.

Yes, if you set the Field Groups to expert you will be able to control each field and set it to the desired results. --- You are OK to leave them as is for now if it's working OK.

Please review the following screencast on how I added content for the Footer in Greek.

Loom Video:
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you will want to edit the footer ACF -> use the language switcher to switch to Greek-> manually add your content and update.

Let me know your results, please.