Forminator, translating the shortcode with the strings but no result

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Last updated by Mohamed Sayed 1 year, 8 months ago.

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October 5, 2023 at 10:09 am #14519229
marieD-13	I have created a french form (default language) with forminator. The shortcode is [forminator-form id="481"] I have created the translated spanish form with forminator too and the shortcode is [forminator-form id="562"]. I try to translate the french shortcode in the strings but everytime I open the spanish page I have to manually change 481 to 562. It looks like the translated strings has no effect in the spanish page. See enclosed picture. the concerned links are: hidden link hidden link Thank you for your help. Regards,
October 5, 2023 at 12:02 pm #14520037
Mohamed Sayed	Hi Marie, Thanks for contacting WPML support. Please note that the "Forminator" plugin is not listed on the WPML compatibility list for the plugins - https://wpml.org/plugin/. This means that our compatibility team has not tested it yet, so it could be a compatibility issue. I suggest contacting the author and asking them to join our Go Global program so our compatibility team can work with them to make those forms fully compatible with WPML, they can contact us at this link: https://wpml.org/documentation/support/go-global-program/ In the meantime, I suggest the following steps to replace the shortcode directly on the translated page: - Copy the shortcode from the translated form - Edit the page in your default language - Switch to the second language from the top admin bar - Edit the translated page with Divi Editor - Replace the original form's shortcode with the new one This is also what the plugin's support suggests here: hidden link Kind regards, Mohamed
October 5, 2023 at 4:16 pm #14522223
marieD-13	Thank you for your response. However I don't understand the purpose of translating strings if they can not do the trick. The french shortcode [forminator-form id="481"] should be in the translated page [forminator-form id="652"] so why do I have to manually change it in the translated page with Divi? I thought that the shortcode would change with the value of the translation. Please check again my picture. Maybe there is something about strings that I don't understand?
October 8, 2023 at 11:27 am #14534449
Mohamed Sayed	Hi, Sorry for the late reply due to the weekend. After searching our internal development tickets, I found that Forminator is not compatible with "String Translation" at the moment. I see that the Forminator team is working on the WPML compatibility feature, it's on their roadmap but no ETA yet. You can keep an eye on this thread for more info: hidden link At the moment, I'm afraid that the only workaround would be replacing the shortcode manually in the translated pages. Kind ragdrs, Mohamed