Background of the issue:
We have two custom taxonomies for WooCommerce products, created using Extended CPTs (hidden link), to have a single-select dropdown for choosing the taxonomy. We have over 1000 products and 6 languages on the site. Custom fields are registered using ACF and are set to 'copy' or 'copy once'.
Symptoms:
When I duplicate products to other languages, those taxonomies do not get copied to the product. Custom fields do not get copied to the duplicated products until I edit the duplicated product and save/update it.
Questions:
Why are custom taxonomies not copied when duplicating products to other languages?
Why do custom fields registered using ACF not get copied until I edit and save the duplicated product?
I don't know how to implement it for my case. I have two issues:
1. Custom taxonomies are not copied. They are assigned to a product just like WooCommerce product categories are, they do not depend on ACF.
2. The problem with ACF is that repeater field doesn't get copied until I enter and update the product.
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(preferably to a test site where the problem has been replicated if possible)
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I often use the Duplicator plugin for this purpose: http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
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Everything looks OK, I assume because you did the following "edit and update translated product", correct?
On the same product, I duplicated it to Hungarian and it seems to be working OK without me having to update it again. Am I missing something to reproduce the issue?
Like I mentioned, the only thing I still have an issue with is "energy_certificates" repeater field.
For example if you look at this product in original language you'll see those energy certificates - hidden link
But they do not get copied to translated language - hidden link
I believe implementing the fix shared earlier with you in the functions.php should resolve this issue.
At the moment I am not able to locate the Field Groups area to edit the ACF Field Groups on the site, is it missing or hidden? I can see that ACF Pro is activated.
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