Content blocks being duplicated between languages

  • So my problem is that I have a startpage with english, italian, french and deutsch translations. When I add content on the english ‘page’ the content blocks are automatically added on the other translations (without any text inside) where they show up as empty white blocks on the other pages. Alas they cant be removed without removing it on the english page. Are you supposed to be able to have different content on the different translations of the same page or am I in the wrong here?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Author Chouby

    (@chouby)

    Hello,

    Polylang doesn’t attempt to modify the content. When you create a new translation, the content should be empty. When you save a post, the content of the translations shouldn’t be modified.

    There are options to synchronize custom fields and other post related data in Polylang settings. You might check that you did not activate them. This may be the source of your issue if some third party plugin relies on custom fields to create content.

    Alos you may check that your issue is not coming from a 3rd party plugin.

    I have the same issue since a few weeks (but I can’t tell exactly since, it’s been a few months this I last updated the plugin & WP). I didn’t have this issue before and I was able to register different contents (blocks) on a same page across languages… Now it’s impossible: like tobcon, when I save a page in a language, it changes the blocks on the other languages, adding the white block but also loosing the content included in the blocks after. As far as I understand, if the blocks were not previously equals between languages, when we save in a different language, the others languages are update and all the content in block after this new one is lost.

    For exemple, if I have in French:
    1) Block A
    2) Block B
    3) Block C
    4) Block D

    If I want to update English with this structure
    1) Block A
    2) Block B
    3) Block Z
    4) Block C
    5) Block D

    The French version auto-update itself this way:
    1) Block A – content kept
    2) Block B – content kept
    3) Block Z – blank
    4) Block C – empty, content lost
    5) Block D – empty, content lost

    Content looks lost because the blocs in 3rd and 4th position move on into the 4th and 5th position.

    I continue to investigate but I’m not sure where to dig, I’m happy if someone has suggestion…

    Thanks

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by f6bien.
    • This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by f6bien.
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