I use Elementor Pro with the Hello Elementor theme and I need help in translating date fields in forms I created using the Elementor Form widget.
I have fields where the user needs to input dates that on the Main Language show as F j, Y and the secondary language show as j F, Y. Problem I have is the following, when in the field, the calendar that displays shows the day and month in the main language (English). For example, if you go to hidden link and click into the field Date de fondation de l'entreprise *, you will see that the month comes up as July and the day's abbreviations are all in English...
Secondly, is this a standard widget of Elementor? I see it is an Elementor Form. Can you please write down some steps to reproduce the issue? so I can try in my local site.
Yes, it's the standard Elementor Pro Form widget. When putting the widget on the page, the only thing you need to do is create a field and set it as "Date" (As per my initial message, I have it as HTML5 disabled). That's it. When you move into the field, a calendar will automatically appear.
As far as looking for the months and day names and translating them. I've done that and than cleared both the WPML and WPFC cache. As you can see if you go to hidden link and click in the field "Date de fondation de l'entreprise", it didn't change anything.
I've tried every combination of seraches I can think of to find other Month and Day strings but, as far as I can tell, I've translated all of them and yet...
May I ask for admin access to your website to check the issue in detail? You can create a separate admin user for this purpose, which can be deleted afterwards.
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Thank you for your patience and cooperation. I am still working on it and trying to reproduce in a separate fresh installation. So if it needs some compatibility fix, we can look into this accordingly.
It 'll take some time and I'll try my best to update you by Monday at earliest.
I've checked our system and this seems to involve so much custom coding solution, which is out of scope of our forums.
Elementor uses "flatpickr" library for these date pickers and all the strings are hardcoded in /wp-content/plugins/elementor/assets/lib/flatpickr/flatpickr.min.js.
It is advised to contact the Elementor support and say that it's not possible to translate the calendar strings in any way, because they are hardcoded in the the above mentioned file.
This has, however, already been reported and they suggested:
You can extend its functionality, see an example here: hidden link
You can also try this alternative method: hidden link - there are some locales already available: hidden link
But of course, you need some custom work to deal with these kinds of things. If you need additional custom work, we recommend you contact WPML Contractors at https://wpml.org/contractors/.
Thank-you for your assistance. I'll be contacting Elementor and devise a solution based on the links your provided.
Cheers,
Marc
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