Multilingual Custom fields are broken on WP dashboard - slow post save

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Last updated by stellaP-5 1 year, 4 months ago.

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December 7, 2022 at 11:41 am #12606353
stellaP-5	I am trying to: Add a new post in English, or edit existing translated post, in a category which contains translated content. The custom fields are displayed as broken, one after the other for all languages in sequence. Saving a translated post is also very slow. Link to a page where the issue can be seen: Live posts work as expected. The issue is noticed on WP dashboard only. Screenshots attached. I expected to see: only the advanced custom fields from the selected language of the post I'm editing. Fields of other languages should be shown upon me choosing a different language. Instead, I got: all the custom fields in all languages appear one after the other on the same post edit page in the dashboard. Upon saving, english text, filled in english custom fields, gets duplicated in every other language equivalent field. Saving is very slow. We have: WordPress 6.0.3 running our own custom theme Advanced Custom Fields 6.0.2 Advanced Custom Fields Multilingual 1.10.4 WPML Media 2.7.1 WPML Multilingual CMS 4.5.11 WPML SEO 2.1.0 WPML String Translation 3.2.2
December 7, 2022 at 2:50 pm #12608051
Laura Supporter Languages: English (English ) Italian (Italiano ) Timezone: Europe/Rome (GMT+02:00)	Hi, thanks for contacting us. There are several things that needs to be fixed 1. Please update WPML (current version is 4.5.11) 2. I see the custom post type acf is set to fallback to the default language, this is wrong. It should be set to do not translate 3. Your WP Memory Limit is too low, please increase it. See https://wpml.org/it/faq/checklist-before-opening-a-ticket-in-wpml-support/#how-to-increase-your-sites-memory-limit Once you've done this, please check our ACF doc and confirm all the fields are configured properly https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/translate-sites-built-with-acf/
December 12, 2022 at 2:45 pm #12635935
stellaP-5	My issue is resolved now. Given our custom fields setup, the custom post type acf has to remain as "fallback to the default language". Everything works as expected now. Thank you!

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