Advanced Custom Fields Multilingual (ACFML) 1.9.0
Advanced Custom Fields Multilingual (ACFML) 1.9.0. This tutorial explains how to translate sites that are built with the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin and WPML. All you need to do is configure WPML to translate ACFβs fields, including the repeater fields and flexible fields.
One of the most important features of WPMLβs integration with Advanced Custom Fields plugin is the ability to translate the repeater fields. The following image displays how this is easily done using WPMLβsΒ Advanced Translation Editor.
On this page
- Requirements and installation
- Making the ACF fields translatable
- Setting the translation preferences for ACF fields
- Setting the translation preferences for Repeater and Flexible fields
- Translating ACF fields
- Translating option pages custom fields
- Translating ACF blocks
- Translating ACF user interface
- Translating other parts of the interface
- How to handle images and other post object fields
- F.A.Q.
- Known issues with Advanced Custom Fields
- Getting help
Requirements and installation
If you are a site owner working with a developer, ask them to check and set up the requirements listed in this section. For you, theΒ Translating the fieldsΒ section is the most important one.
You need the following plugins installed and activated on your site:
- TheΒ ACFΒ plugin (latest free or pro version)
- Multilingual CMSΒ version of WPML. Install the WPML core plugin plus String Translation and Translation Management add-ons.
- TheΒ Advanced Custom Fields Multilingual (ACFML) plugin. ACFML is a bridge plugin that makes WPML and Advanced Custom Fields plugin compatible.
WPMLβsΒ Getting Started GuideΒ will help you in setting up WPML in a few minutes. You might want to refer to some of its subtopics later on, such asΒ String TranslationΒ andΒ Finding strings that donβt appear on the String Translation page. We recommend that you keep this guide open while following this tutorial.
The setup of the ACFML plugin is simple. You can download the plugin on the WPML site, from theΒ Download section of your Account page.
TheΒ ACF documentationΒ will provide you with all the information needed to set it up and use it.
For a better translation experience, activate WPMLΒ Advanced Translation Editor. You can do this on theΒ WPML β SettingsΒ page, in theΒ How to translate posts and pagesΒ section.Β There, select theΒ Use WPMLβs Advanced Translation EditorΒ option for the new content and clickΒ Save.
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