Advanced Translator + Custom Fields?

  • Resolved Juan Hernando

    (@unintended8)


    7 years, 11 months ago

    Hi! First time using and configuring this plugin, it looks really good ??

    I have a question… when activating the option ‘Advanced translator’, I can translate the content & taxonomies in just one same page. Is there a way to see any custom field I’ve created for the posts there too? For example, if I create with ACF a text custom field, it would be great to have it too in the same screen, and not having to click and go to each different post in each language to edit it.

    Thanks for your help!

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  • Hi Juan,

    sorry, but no, there’s currently no built-in way to do this out of the box.

    There are a looot of requests for translation of custom fields (which are not only interesting for custom post types, but posts and pages as well!).
    As of now, this is not possible, though. We are sorry for this, but it has really a lot of reasons. The most important (and obvious) ones being these:

    • we cannot know which of all custom fields should be translatable, and which not;
    • we cannot about the nature of each field (what’s the allowed data type, are there any conditions to be respected, …);
    • we cannot know about the UI (and cannot rebuild it anyway).

    We really hope to be able to do something to this when the Fields API will get merged into Core – and plugins make use of it. To be honest, though. this might take quite a while to get there.

    What you can do if you are a developer, however, is make use of plugin actions and insert some UI for the custom fields you are interested in yourself – and also take care of processing these.
    Just have a look at the individual actions fired in the meta box and in the processing unit, respecitvely.

    Hope that helps, and happy Easter!
    Thorsten

    Thread Starter Juan Hernando

    (@unintended8)

    Thanks for your answer Thorsten and happy Easter! ?? I understand all your points. I’ll take a look at the actions and see if I can code something, but in the short term, I’ll keep updating each field in each single post page.

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