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Last updated by Osama Mersal 1 year, 9 months ago.

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February 19, 2023 at 4:24 pm #13064913

razvanB

I am developing a site that has some custom fields set up, which need to be translatable. I have some articles for which I've set the field to be translatable after the article has been created and that field does not show up in the translation editor. Also, i have some articles that were originally created by duplicating another article and there is a field that in the translation manager does not show the text in the new articles, but the text in the original one that they were duplicated from. How do I solve this issue without rewriting the articles from scratch?

February 20, 2023 at 6:53 am #13066651

Osama Mersal
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Languages: English (English ) Arabic (العربية )

Timezone: Africa/Cairo (GMT+02:00)

Hi,

Thanks for contacting WPML forums support. I'll be glad to help you today.

1) Could you please make sure you use the recommended translation preferences for your fields? Kindly check this guide about the recommended translation preferences. (https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/translate-sites-built-with-acf/recommended-custom-fields-translation-preferences-for-acf-and-wpml/)

Also, please make sure that the "ACF Groups" post type is set to "Not Translatable".

2) It's not related to the issue, but according to your Debug.info, the WP memory limit needs to be increased. PHP memory is fine, but WordPress uses 40Mb as default. The minimum requirements for WPML are 128 MB. (Kindly check this page https://wpml.org/home/minimum-requirements/)

You can increase it by adding the following code in your wp-config.php file right before the /* That's all, stop editing! Happy publishing. */ line:

/* Memory Limit */
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M');
define( 'WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M');

Best regards,
Osama

March 1, 2023 at 11:33 am #13143923

razvanB

I don't have a problem with not being able to translate. My specific case is the following:
A field which was previously not set to be translatable, was eventually set to be translatable and afterwards the data from the period when it was not translatable keeps popping up in the translation editor and those fields are still not translatable.

March 1, 2023 at 6:35 pm #13148135

Osama Mersal
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Languages: English (English ) Arabic (العربية )

Timezone: Africa/Cairo (GMT+02:00)

Hi,

Thanks for your update. Could you please let me know the steps to reproduce the issue?

Also, I would need to look closely at your site, so I would need to request temporary access (WP-Admin and FTP)
– preferably to a test site where the problem has been replicated if possible –
in order to be of better help and check if some configurations might need to be changed.

Your next answer will be private, which means only you and I can access it.

❌ Please backup your database and website ❌

✙ I would need your permission to de-activate and re-activate the Plugins and the Theme and change configurations on the site. This is also a reason the backup is critical.

✙ I also need your permission to take a local copy of your site to debug the issue without affecting your live site.

Best regards,
Osama

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