Forminator doesn’t recognise that TranslatPress has changed the language to EN

Hi @nardela

I hope you are doing well today.

We have made some tests and as soon we switched the site language from German to English all translations were updated correctly. That switch must be triggered in Settings -> General of WP Dashboard (not on my profile page -> sharing this info just in case) and you need to “updated translations”.

Also, it seems that the above was not done by you, as “When we switch the website from German to English” this sounds like you switch language by TranslatePress switcher.

Kind Regards,
Kris

Hi Kris,

have I understood correctly that TranslatePress and Forminator do not work together properly?

I would expect Forminator to recognise that the language has been changed with TranslatePress and then output the standard texts in the currently active language.

If this really doesn’t work, can you recommend a “multi-language plugin” that works with Forminator?

Kind Regards,
Leandra

Hi @nardela

have I understood correctly that TranslatePress and Forminator do not work together properly?

No, that’s not what my colleague meant.

The point is that it has to have all the translations to be fully and properly updated (assuming that given translation is available for Forminator; as far as I’m aware, German is).

You just need to do this – if you already have form created and working but the country list etc are not translating:

a) go to “Settings -> General” page
b) switch “Site Language” to the other language – German in this case
c) then just update translations (“Dashboard -> Updates”; it should show you that translations are available for update)
d) if you use more languages, repeat steps “b” and “c” for all of them
e) and finally switch “Site Language” back to what you normally use

And that’s it. You may need to clear all cache on site/server but from now on whenever you switch site language on front-end (so with TranslatePress) country list should also change correctly to that selected language.

Kind regards,
Adam

• This reply was modified 10 months ago by Williams - WPMU DEV Support. Reason: grammar correction to make one sentence more understanable

Hello Adam,

thank you for your detailed answer.

Our WordPress installation uses German (de) as the default language. In this language, the country field of Forminator is displayed correctly with the German countries.

Users can switch to the language?en_GB?via TranslatePress. When switched, the language of Forminators “country select” is not displayed correctly.

I have tried what you suggested, but have not been prompted to update the language (in our case?en_GB).

1. settings -> General: Switched WordPress Default language to en_GB (English – UK) from de.
2. cleared all WP caches
3. visit “Dashboard” -> “Updates”
4. no new updates available.

Any other idea?

Thanks again for the great support!

Best regards!

Hi @nardela

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Kind Regards,
Kris

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Best regards,
Laura

Thanks again for helping me to solve the problem. This helped me solving the issue:

Hi @nardela,

Thank you for response and pointing out about those translations.

Yet, I was quite confused because while I could replicate that issue on your dev site, I was unable to replicate it on my own setup.
I tried multiple different languages on my end and in all cases it worked just like suggested before (just after updating translations).
In a few cases I had some troubles initially but that turned out to be solely a matter of selecting correct “version” of the language (e.g. like German (formal) vs German (informal) and similar).
Ultimately, it worked all the time.

So I thought there may be be some additional issue involved here and I started comparing your setup with mine.
Eventually, I noticed that you doi have language in Translate Press set to “English” but… there is no such language in WordPress out of the box.
There is “English (UK)”, “English (United States)” and a few other but no “English” as such.
I then found that you have it added as “custom language” in “Settings -> TranslatePress -> Advanced -> Custom Languages” page.

The language name there is set to “English” but language code to “en_GB”.

I’m honestly not quite sure why this is causing the issue but it seems it is.

The moment I changed language on “Settings -> TranslatePress -> General” page from that custom “English” to standard “English (United States)
the form started to work fine right away and is now showing correct translations for countries in both German and English.

It will also work if you change from “English (United States)” to “English (UK)” or any other of standard version of English language provided by WordPress.
But not with the custom one defined in the TranslatePress custom languages.

I suppose this has something to do with either availability of translation files at wp.org or with the way how TranslatePress handles those custom languages.
I’m afraid, though, that diagnosing it is a bit out of scope as it doesn’t seem to be related to Formiantor itself directly.


I left it set to “English (United States” on your dev site so you could see that it’s working now. Ultimately, if you use any of those “officially provided” versions of English
it will work just fine.

Note though: I also did have to clear cache – but that’s nothing unusual; it’s usually required in case of such changes.

Best regards,
Adam

Hi @nardela

As the issue ultimately turned out to be related to “custom languages” setting in TranslatePress and is not solved, I’m marking this topic as resolved.

If you have any other questions or need other help, please don’t hesitate to start new topics and we’ll be happy to assist.

Best regards,
Adam