Background of the issue:
I am trying to have related posts show up in translations on my site hidden link. I am using Metabox for the dynamic data. Specifically, I have tours and these tours are related to FAQ items. I set the related posts for the original in the WordPress editor and would like the exact same related posts to show up on the translation.
Symptoms:
I have not figured out a convenient way to have related posts transfer over to secondary languages. Metabox support suggested setting the relationships manually in the WordPress editor of the translated post, which is inconvenient.
Questions:
Is there any way to get Metabox relationships to transfer over to secondary languages?
Yes — but only if the relationships are stored in a way WPML can copy between originals and translations, and you explicitly tell WPML to do so.
Here’s the key point: Metabox relationships are saved as custom fields (post meta), so WPML needs to know to copy those fields from the original post to its translation. By default, WPML will not duplicate them unless you configure it.
Please make sure you find what the custom field name is for that option and enable the translation or duplication of that in WPML > Settings > Custom Fields Translation:
Thank you for the information. According to the Metabox documentation below:
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1- You need to go to WPML > Translation Management and find the Metabox Relationships section and select them and send them for translation.
Then you need to go to WPML > Translations, take those and complete the translation.
2- You need to translate the labels:
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If the problem persists, I'd appreciate it if you could give me the URL/User/Pass of your WordPress dashboard after you make sure that you have a backup of your website.
It is absolutely important that you give us a guarantee that you have a backup so if something happens you will have a point of restore.
Thank you. I'd appreciate it if you could give me the URL/User/Pass of your WordPress dashboard after you make sure that you have a backup of your website.
It is absolutely important that you give us a guarantee that you have a backup so if something happens you will have a point of restore.
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Also please tell us which relationship to check. If you give us the steps to see the relationship it will be great.
Thank you for the login information. Would you please check the video below?
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Video Summary:
- Enabled the Relationships custom post type (created by Metabox) to be translatable in WPML settings.
- In Metabox Relationships, duplicated the German version to English using the "overwrite with German content" option.
- Verified that tours now have the FAQ field available in both languages.
- Tested by adding an FAQ in English, which displayed correctly on the frontend.
- Translation of FAQs and relationships will need to be done manually for each language.
Thank you for this thorough investigation. That's actually what the Metabox support also told me. It's not a big hassle in this case, because the website is for a tiny business and not going to grow but for bigger dynamic multilingual websites, I imagine that it would make a lot of sense to just have the same relationsships as for the primary language set automatically. I can't imagine a scenario where the related posts would be radically different in a secondary language. But if the manual way is the only way, it will work as well. Thank you very much!
