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Last updated by Bruno Kos 1 week, 5 days ago.

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January 15, 2026 at 12:13 pm #17733058
Paolo Sax	I have custom taxonomies with image uploader custom field, set to "copy" in WPML settings; however the image is not copied throughout the languages
January 15, 2026 at 2:04 pm #17734073
Paolo Sax	Issue not solved yet
January 15, 2026 at 2:21 pm #17734209
Bruno Kos WPML Supporter since 12/2018 Languages: English (English ) German (Deutsch ) French (Français ) Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+01:00)	These custom fields: hidden link Can you tell me where and how are these added? Maybe one of these Field Groups or somewhere within the theme code? hidden link I would like to check if this is about field group type or something else, as the custom field indeed looks correct. Another thing, what if you try this - rename _bewebbi_ui_meta_custom_tax_cover_image to be "bewebbi_ui_meta_custom_tax_cover_image", so remove this underscore at the beginning and try then, so open any of the original categories such as hidden link and just resave it. Does that help?
January 15, 2026 at 2:32 pm #17734232
Paolo Sax	The taxonomy "offers_categories" is created by the custom theme (not via plugin) as well as the related custom field "_bewebbi_ui_meta_custom_tax_cover_image". I will try to make the field non-system and check - even if I've never had this kind of problems before
January 15, 2026 at 2:51 pm #17734309
Bruno Kos WPML Supporter since 12/2018 Languages: English (English ) German (Deutsch ) French (Français ) Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+01:00)	Yes, as I am also wondering if this has something to do with this: https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/translate-sites-built-with-acf/#acf-field-choices:~:text=To%20ensure%20fields%20appear%20for%20translation This affects translatable custom fields, but maybe it prevents proper copying as well. Also, given that these come from the theme, what if you set translation preferences using wpml_cf_preferences? https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/translate-sites-built-with-acf/setting-the-translation-preferences-for-acf-fields-created-using-php-code/
January 16, 2026 at 9:16 am #17736143
Paolo Sax	Hello Bruno, apparently, I solved the issue doing as follow: - I've disabled the Automatic text/image detection feature, added recently by WPML, and duplicate manually existing content and new content; - set the "_bewebbi_ui_meta_custom_tax_cover_image" term meta to "copy once"; - and now, when I translate the custom taxonomy, finally I can see the "_bewebbi_ui_meta_custom_tax_cover_image" field with the attachemnt image ID to be copied; - in theory, I was thought that setting the field to "copy", the image ID would be copied as well, but it looks like it don't - meaning: the image is not visible in other languages in this way So, I don't know if this is the right/better procedure, but for now it seems to work... P.S.: the "_bewebbi_ui_meta_custom_tax_cover_image" was not created via ACF but with custom php instead
January 16, 2026 at 12:38 pm #17736935
Bruno Kos WPML Supporter since 12/2018 Languages: English (English ) German (Deutsch ) French (Français ) Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+01:00)	This sounds very similar to https://wpml.org/forums/topic/bug-gallery-translation/, which we are still investigating. Because in that case, when we disabled "Automatically detect best options for translating image texts (alt, caption, title)" it fixed it and whether using "copy" or "copy-once" for the image field did not make any difference. The workaround would be to deactivate the automatic MT option in Settings, and duplicate all existing and new content to fix the issue hidden link. Can you check this, does the same apply to your case?