[Resolved] WPML Widget displays widget in english and in secondary language

Hello.

The WPML Widgets plugin was suggested by your support to overcome an issue that WPML has, which is that the secondary languages are mixed up (some texts in French and others in English). You can see that here below, and what worked for the OP was the WPML Widget plugin (which doesn't work for me):
https://wpml.org/forums/topic/some-parts-of-home-page-widgets-are-translated-others-are-not/#post-3221348

As you suggest it, I already tried to put the widget in English only, and to use the string translation of WPML without the WPML Widgets plugin. I managed to do it but the issue is that for some texts it is shown in French but others are in English. It is mixed up in the user rendering of it.
This was also the original OP issue, mentioned here:
https://wpml.org/forums/topic/some-parts-of-home-page-widgets-are-translated-others-are-not

For me it is fine without this WPML Widgets plugin, it is even better so that I don't need to redo several widgets, one per language.

So I removed the WMPL Widgets plugin on the test site and you can see on the following page this mix of english and french:
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The page should be displayed only in French, but you will see several sentences in english.

You can login again and see this behaviour.
The "string translation" domain for the Shapely homepage widgets is: admin_texts_widget_shapely_home_parallax.

Please look specifically at the "[widget_shapely_home_parallax][2]body_content" string name.

This field will show you that the French translation is done correctly, with the english as source, but it is rendered in English on this link which is the French version:
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That is the problem that the other OP and me are facing.

It seems that some "WHERE lang='fr'" is forgotten somewhere in the SQL request.

Can you please try to install the "Shapely" theme on a new WordPress install with WPML and try to reproduce this error on your side?
I am quite sure that you will get the same issue.

Regards.

Hello.

Thank you very much for this explanation regarding the Shapely theme and that it is not really WPML compatible, and especially for this Custom XML Configuration for WPML that you made and provided here.
I tried it and it works with WPML for the shapely parallax widget! Thank you very much, that is really great!

I still had to update it a little bit so that it also accepts the second button of this widget to be translated.
At the same time, I also updated some other widgets of the Shapely theme, so that it is already more compatible with WPML, but I didn't test them.

I put it here as reference for others that might need it too, keeping in mind that it is not fully supported and that the Shapely team will have to provide a more complete and official XML configuration:

<wpml-config>
    <admin-texts>
        <key name="widget_shapely_home_parallax">
            <key name="*">
                <key name="title"/>
                <key name="body_content"/>
                <key name="button1"/>
                <key name="button1_link"/>
                <key name="button2"/>
                <key name="button2_link"/>
            </key>
        </key>
        <key name="widget_shapely-cats">
            <key name="*">
                <key name="title"/>
            </key>
        </key>
        <key name="widget_shapely_home_cfa">
            <key name="*">
                <key name="title"/>
                <key name="button"/>
                <key name="button_link"/>
            </key>
        </key>
        <key name="widget_shapely_home_contact">
            <key name="*">
                <key name="title"/>
                <key name="body_content"/>
                <key name="phone"/>
                <key name="address"/>
                <key name="email"/>
            </key>
        </key>
        <key name="widget_shapely_home_portfolio">
            <key name="*">
                <key name="title"/>
                <key name="body_content"/>
            </key>
        </key>
        <key name="widget_shapely_home_testimonial">
            <key name="*">
                <key name="title"/>
            </key>
        </key>
    </admin-texts>
</wpml-config>

Now I can use the Shapely theme as I need it with the above code, for the widgets that I use, and it works very nicely!

Thank you again for this great support that you provided!

Ok thank you.
Would it be possible please to include a reference to this topic on the https://wpml.org/forums/topic/some-parts-of-home-page-widgets-are-translated-others-are-not ticket so that people also see this solution?

Generally speaking, I think that WPML should try to make these XML configurations for some well-known themes like Shapely, also even if they are free.

That is a consideration for your managers, but do the math: Shapely theme has 50 000 + installations. If you count that at least 3% of them will need a translation in another language, this means 1500 potential customers that will try WPML and have a very bad experience and will be lost, or even that will not try the theme nor WPML because not advertised so.

Hence if WPML generates those configurations this would bring lot of customers in, and everybody wins with this situation.
You could also provide some start of configuration like you did here to the authors, telling them that they just need to finish them, and they will be more than happy to finish it. Or you can do it fully for them, and tell them that they have to adapt it afterwards if they change something to their widgets.
This would mean being pro active searching to make most themes compatible with WPML so that everyone knows that WPML will have all chances to be compatible with their theme, if the theme is installed more than 1000 times for example.

Hoping this brings ideas for this great WPML translation plugin that works really nicely.
Thanks!